Lettuce - Blend - Bon Vivant SPICY

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Lettuce - Blend - Bon Vivant SPICY

The Letuce Mesclun Bon Vivant Spicy, 'Lactuca sativa', is a custom salad mixture with exciting flavors, colors, and textures that will excite your interest and taste for salads. We've added several unique and tasty greens to the Bon Vivant Mix to make a tasty and texture filled European salad blend. This variety contains Tango, Royal Oak Leaf, Red Salad Bowl, Black Seeded Simpson, Grand Rapids TBR, and Red Salis, Mizuna, Green Endive, and Arugula seeds. Bon Vivant Spicy Lettuce is an annual cool season plant. It will send up a seed stalk, which causes foliage to taste bitter, in heat generally above 90 degrees. Successive plantings of Bon Vivant can produce lettuce spring through fall. Plant in early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before the average last frost date, and successive plantings thereafter every 3 weeks until 5 weeks before fall frost. This lettuce likes light, fertile, moist, and well drained soils. They will grow in light shade. Lettuce grows well near cabbage, beets, carrots, chives, garlic, and onion. This lettuce can also be grown inside in containers. ... additional info

 

Caraway The tasty seed are commonly used in breads, soups, stews, and other dishes. The fresh whole or minced leaves can be used in lettuce or fruit salads. Try grinding up fresh seed and sprinkle over fresh popcorn! The flavor is like a combination of anise and dill. Caraway produces seed in the 2nd season. Plant in the spring as soon as the soil can be worked or in the fall for a crop next year.

Lettuce - Blend - Bon Vivant SPICY