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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: spud on January 18, 2024, 12:29

Title: Your picking Lettuce choices?
Post by: spud on January 18, 2024, 12:29

Me trying to save time again ...  Do you have any favourite lettuce varieties for leaf picking? I still havent managed to get any good Grenoble Red which I really liked.

Some ive grown are very tight leafed so not good for leaf picking.

If you could post your favourites that would give me a head start, thanks.

Title: Re: Your picking Lettuce choices?
Post by: Yorkie on January 18, 2024, 18:25

You're probably looking for loose leaf lettuce varieties.

I don't grow them, so can't recommend from personal experience, but some common varieties include Lollo rosso (red) or Salad bowl (I think comes in red or green shades).

Title: Re: Your picking Lettuce choices?
Post by: steven c on January 19, 2024, 08:41

we grow lolla rosso [among the corn] a nice one to grow as rarely goes to seed picking just the outside leaves seems to last a long while.

Title: Re: Your picking Lettuce choices?
Post by: Subversive_plot on January 19, 2024, 11:10

favorites include Merlot Batavian for a dark red loose head type, and Really Red Deer Tongue for  firm-leaved bronze type.

Flashy Troutback is a good romaine type with looser heads of light green leaves, flecked with brick red.

All of the above are good for picking.

Title: Re: Your picking Lettuce choices?
Post by: Snow on January 19, 2024, 11:18

I grow lettuce year round, although pickings are extremely thin this time of year. I also don't do hearts due to slugs, so it's loose leaf all the way for me. Most lettuce can be picked for leaf, just make sure you leave 6 to 8 of the youngest leaves each time you pick so they have enough leaf left for good regrowth.

Try searching for "rouge de grenoble” if you struggle to find those seeds, it's one of my favourites too and I also need new seeds, I've got 6 of them in the greenhouse at the moment and I'm intending to let one go to seed for next year. I tried to save seed last year outside but the wet weather killed the plants

My favourites are dark roden, red cimmaron, Paris Island. But I'm always trying new ones and seed mixes .

Title: Re: Your picking Lettuce choices?
Post by: Mr Dog on January 20, 2024, 19:37

Multigreen 3 and Mazur

Title: Re: Your picking Lettuce choices?
Post by: Blewit on January 21, 2024, 08:58

Gilaad is favourite for us. Good for self saving the seed too.

Title: Re: Your picking Lettuce choices?
Post by: spud on January 21, 2024, 09:39

this has been really useful, there are lettuce listed that i never even heard of before, so lots of research and reading to be done. Thank you

There may be even more that folks know about and use. The Grenoble Red was a great one for me, but sadly it seems to have went down hill, my seed saving attempt on it was taken out by a storm :-(