Organic Butterhead Lettuce Appia - Vilmorin seeds - Lactuca sativa

The 'Appia' Lettuce is a high-quality lettuce, very productive, which forms large heads of smooth, thin and crunchy leaves. It is an exceptional variety, tolerant to cold and resistant to running to seed. Sowing from February to August for a harvest from April 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.

An excellent leaf 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 cultivated almost all year round.

Growing Lettuce is easy as long as you respect the growing 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 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 just after harvest.

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