Organic Lettuce Jerrican plants - Lactuca sativa

The 'Jerrican' Lettuce is a new variety of red lettuce that combines many qualities. It produces beautiful dense heads, with a good volume, composed of thick and shiny leaves strongly tinted with deep red. It is a variety similar to Soliflore, robust, vigorous, highly resistant to fungal diseases (mildew, blight), and therefore easy to grow. Harvest from June to October.

If Lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (4.2 kilos 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, to accompany peas, for example.

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 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.

The cultivation of Lettuce is easy as long as you respect the planting calendar for each variety. It grows quickly and 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 harvest.

Gardener's tip: During hot summer weather, lettuces exposed to direct sunlight tend to wither 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 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 intended for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them in shelters (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.