Lettuce Lollo rouge Concorde - Lactuca sativa

The Concorde Red Lollo Lettuce is an excellent variety of Lollo rossa type that forms beautiful balls of purple-brown color, composed of slightly curly, thick and solid leaves. It is a pleasantly colorful cut salad, with a mild flavor, highly resistant to running to seed and easy to grow.

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

The lettuce is the ultimate leafy vegetable and 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. Cut lettuces do not form heads and can be harvested as needed as they have the ability to regrow after each harvest.

Lettuce cultivation is easy as long as you follow the cultivation calendar for each variety. It grows rapidly and thrives in any soil, provided it is rich and remains moist.

Harvest: It is done with a knife, by taking the leaves from the outer part of the plant, which will continue to develop and produce new leaves.

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.

Gardening tip: A real nightmare for gardeners, slugs and snails love lettuce leaves. When the hunt is on, we are ready to do anything to repel or eliminate them: ash cord (which will be quickly leached by rain), homemade beer traps (which intoxicate hedgehogs to the point of alcohol poisoning), copper bands that are supposed to electrocute them (which tickle them a bit)...

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 to 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: Attention, 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 being planted outdoors once the risk of frost has been definitively eliminated.