Organic Butterhead Lettuce Appia - Vilmorin seeds - Lactuca sativa
Organic Butterhead Lettuce Appia - Vilmorin seeds - Lactuca sativa
Lactuca sativa Appia
Lettuce
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We guarantee the quality of our plants for a full growing cycle, and will replace at our expense any plant that fails to recover under normal climatic and planting conditions.
Description
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.
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Botanical data
Lactuca
sativa
Appia
Asteraceae
Lettuce
Cultivar or hybrid
Annual
Planting and care
Sowing:
The germination of Lettuce occurs at a temperature of around 18°C (64.4°F) and takes an average of 10 days.
Sowing is done in a cold greenhouse from February to April or directly in the ground from March to August.
On well-prepared and loosened soil, make furrows spaced 30cm (12in) apart, with a depth of 0.5cm (0in). Sow in rows, spacing the seeds 4cm (2in) apart and cover them. After germination, when the plants are well developed, thin them out to leave one plant every 30cm (12in).
If your vegetable garden is often targeted by slugs and snails, we recommend sowing under cover, in small clumps, and then transplanting the well-developed plants to the garden.
Cultivation:
Lettuce is not a very demanding vegetable, but it still requires humus-rich soil, otherwise it tends to bolt prematurely. It is advisable to add a moderate amount of well-rotted compost in the autumn, by scratching it into the soil to a depth of 5cm (2in), after loosening the soil as you would for any vegetable crop. It prefers slightly acidic to neutral soils (pH between 5.5 and 7.5).
During cultivation, remember that Lettuce prefers moist soil and make sure to water it regularly.
Lettuce is a good companion plant and can easily be intercropped with slower-growing vegetables such as beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. Just avoid planting it near corn.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a (East Coast and Midlands: Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Portlaoise). It will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the north-west (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Westport), delay planting by 1 to 2 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 1 to 2 weeks in autumn compared to the dates given, preferably choosing periods without strong winds.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (Wicklow Mountains, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, Connemara, Killarney), it is best to plant in spring (April–May) or autumn (September–October), avoiding periods of waterlogged soil in winter and strong winds, which pose the main risk to newly planted trees in these areas.
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a, such as the East Coast and Midlands, including Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny and Portlaoise.
This will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the northwest (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal and Westport), it will be delayed by one to two weeks compared to the given dates, due to stronger Atlantic winds and less spring sunshine.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (the Wicklow Mountains, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Connemara and Killarney), flowering will be delayed by two to three weeks. Flowering mainly occurs between May and July, with the limiting factors being less frost and more of the excessive humidity, strong winds and lack of sunshine that are characteristic of these areas.