Lettuce Red Salad Bowl.
This is a bronze burgundy-red version of Green Salad Bowl. It is also known as Red Oak with the same deeply lobed oak-like leaves and good heat tolerance.
It holds its mild, non-bitter, salad quality for a long time.
Red Salad Bowl is popular with baby leaf growers and can be cut for baby leaves in 28 days. It reaches full size in 55 days.
Lettuces like to be grown in mild conditions and do not like hot weather. They should be sown often to ensure a continuous supply.
Sow the seeds very shallowly and rake in lightly.
Keep the soil moist for the continued life of the plant and you will be rewarded with lovely salad greens.
Any dryness will result in bitter leaves and bolting will result.
Sow in all months in mild areas and cease sowing during mid winter in cold areas. Cease sowing during hot conditions or whenever they can be expected to arise.
Lettuces grow well under trees where they receive dappled shade.