Butterhead Lettuce Merveille des 4 saisons plants - Lactuca sativa

The Marvel of Four Seasons Lettuce is a Lettuce with large heads of leaves widely tinted with red brown. It is a very beautiful variety, voluminous and colorful, easy to grow, which can be harvested from May to October.

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

As the ultimate leaf vegetable, Lettuce is an annual plant belonging 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 respect the cultivation calendar for each variety. Its growth is fast and it thrives in any soil, provided it is rich and remains moist.

Harvest: It is simply done with a knife when the Lettuces are well developed.

Storage: Lettuce can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator, but to make the most of its freshness, we recommend consuming it immediately after harvest. Freezing cooked Lettuce is also possible.

Gardener's tip: A real nightmare for gardeners, slugs and snails love lettuce leaves. When the hunt is on, it must be admitted that one is ready to do anything to repel or eliminate them: the ash cord (which will quickly be leached by the rain), the homemade trap filled with beer (which hedgehogs get drunk on until they are in an alcoholic coma), the copper strips supposed to electrocute them (which tickle them a little)...

Instead of wasting your time and, incidentally, your salads, we recommend using an anti-slug product composed of ferric phosphate known as Ferramol. Unlike metaldehyde-based slug killers, which are dangerous for wildlife and polluting, Ferramol is natural, non-toxic, and very effective as long as you remember to "treat" your plot a few days before sowing.

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