Batavia Lettuce Florine - Lactuca sativa

The Florine Batavia Lettuce is an excellent variety that forms large heads of thick, crunchy leaves. It is a very disease and aphid resistant lettuce that keeps very well.

If lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (4.2 kilograms per person per year), it is as much for its freshness, crispness, as for its taste and nutritional qualities. It can be eaten 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 Asteraceae family. Its Latin name, Lactuca sativa, refers both to the white sap (lactuca) that flows when 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 is possible to grow it almost all year round.

Lettuce cultivation is easy as long as the cultivation calendar for each variety is respected. 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 right after harvest.

Gardener's tip: During hot summer weather, lettuces exposed to direct sunlight tend to wilt. To prevent this from happening, consider protecting them from intense rays using overturned crates. In our garden, summer lettuces are not grown in rows but are 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 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 is definitively eliminated.