Batavia Lettuce Dorée de Printemps plants - Lactuca sativa

The Spring Golden Batavia Lettuce is a crisphead lettuce that forms large light green heads. Its leaves are crinkled and crunchy. It is an early variety particularly suitable for spring cultivation.

Lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (4.2 kilograms per person per year) due to its freshness, crunchiness, and taste and nutritional qualities. It can be eaten raw in salads but also cooked, for example, to accompany peas.

As the ultimate leafy vegetable, Lettuce is an annual plant that belongs to the large family of Asteraceae. Its Latin name, Lactuca sativa, refers both to the white sap (lactuca) that oozes when it is cut and to the fact that it is cultivated (sativa).

It is an essential vegetable in any respectable vegetable garden, and there are so many varieties that it can be grown almost all year round.

Lettuce cultivation is easy as long as you follow the cultivation calendar for each variety. Its growth is rapid and it thrives in any soil, as long as it is rich and remains moist.

Harvest: It is simply done with a knife when it reaches ripeness.

Storage: Lettuce can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator, but to enjoy its freshness to the fullest, we recommend consuming it immediately after harvesting.

Gardener's tip: During hot summer weather, lettuces exposed to direct sunlight tend to wilt miserably. To avoid this phenomenon, consider protecting them from intense rays with overturned crates. In our garden, summer lettuces are not grown in rows but are interspersed throughout: at the base of climbing beans, in the middle of cucumbers and squash, whose foliage provides beneficial shade.

Note: Please note that our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them under cover (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before installing them outdoors once the risk of frost is definitively eliminated.