Butterhead Lettuce Appia plants - Lactuca sativa

The 'Appia' Lettuce is a quality market garden lettuce that forms large heads of smooth, thin and crunchy leaves. It is an excellent variety, tolerant to cold and resistant to running to seed.

If lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (4.2 kilograms per person per year), it is appreciated for its freshness, crunchiness, as well as its taste and nutritional qualities. It can be consumed raw in salads but also cooked, for example, to accompany peas.

As the ultimate leaf vegetable, lettuce is an annual plant that belongs to the large Asteraceae family. Its Latin name, Lactuca sativa, refers both to the white sap (lactuca) that flows 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.

Growing lettuce is easy as long as you follow the growing calendar for each variety. Its growth is rapid, and it thrives in any soil, provided 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 maximum, we recommend consuming it immediately after harvesting.

Gardener's tip: During intense summer heat, lettuces exposed to full sun tend to wilt miserably. To avoid this phenomenon, consider protecting them from intense rays by using 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 shelter (veranda, greenhouse, frame...) at a temperature above 14C° for a few weeks before being planted outdoors once the risk of frost is definitively eliminated.