Batavia Lettuce Rouge Grenobloise plants - Lactuca sativa

The Batavia Rouge Grenobloise Lettuce is an excellent variety that you will appreciate for its generosity. It forms large heads composed of dark green leaves bordered with red, thin and crispy. It is a resistant salad and easy to grow.

If Lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (4.2 kilos consumed per person per year), it is equally 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 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 grown almost all year round.

Growing Lettuce is easy as long as you respect the cultivation calendar for each variety. Its growth is rapid, and it 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 fully enjoy its freshness, we recommend consuming it just after harvesting.

Gardener's tip: A true nightmare for gardeners, slugs and snails love salad leaves. When the hunt is on, we must admit that we are ready to do anything to repel or eliminate them: the line of ash (which will be quickly washed away by rain), the homemade trap filled with beer (which hedgehogs get drunk on until they are in an alcoholic coma), the copper strips supposed to electrocute them (which tickle them a little)...

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 anti-slugs, which are dangerous for 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: Please note that our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them under shelter (veranda, greenhouse, 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 avoided.