Freckles Romaine Lettuce

$2.75

A very special lettuce with a unique look and delicious flavor. It will add visual interest to any salad while keeping its sweet, mild flavor even into the heat of spring.

JOY MAX QUALITIES:

  • A truly unique and gorgeous lettuce

  • Very heat resistant, one of the last lettuces to bolt every year and may not at all in cooler growing zones

  • Beautiful in the garden and on a plate

  • Can be harvested as baby lettuce, individual leaves, or full head

  • Open-pollinated

A very special lettuce with a unique look and delicious flavor. It will add visual interest to any salad while keeping its sweet, mild flavor even into the heat of spring.

JOY MAX QUALITIES:

  • A truly unique and gorgeous lettuce

  • Very heat resistant, one of the last lettuces to bolt every year and may not at all in cooler growing zones

  • Beautiful in the garden and on a plate

  • Can be harvested as baby lettuce, individual leaves, or full head

  • Open-pollinated

Planting Information:

Direct sow when temps are in the 60s or start indoors. Sow 6 seeds per foot, Cover very lightly and firm soil gently. Sprouts should appear within a week to 10 days. Grows well in containers. Full sun in fall, but in spring/summer, part-shade is best. You can harvest leaves or full heads. It stores well in the fridge.Plants will benefit from frequent watering and rich soil. Frequent monitoring for damage from pests, such as slugs and snails, will be imperative due to this plant’s small size.

Lactuca sativa PLANT HEIGHT: 3-6” PLANT WIDTH: 4-5” SEED SPACING: 2” SEED DEPTH: 1/8” IDEAL TEMP: 45-75º Germination: 4-10 DAYS TO MATURITY: 55 SOIL: Loose & fertile LIGHT: Full sun in fall, Part-shade in spring. Open-Pollinated.

Complete your Salad Bowl! Grow greens throughout the cool season well into spring and early summer.

Salad Days Heirloom Seed Collection
$15.00

Six heirloom all-stars selected for their flavor, beauty, variety, and endurance in warm weather! They come packed in a beautiful envelope featuring original artwork by JMJ, making this a great gift for the salad-loving gardener in your life.

Slow-bolting Arugula • Red Streaks Mizuna Mustard • Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce • Buttercrunch Lettuce • Little Gem Lettuce • Ruby Red Lettuce • Find out more about growing these seeds in the grow guide.

This collection features award-winning lettuce, arugula, and mustard seeds that will keep you in gourmet salads for weeks on end. Seeds come in individual packs enclosed in a larger envelope with planting information on the back. For those of you that have been with Joy Max since the first collection, you will see a big leap forward here in terms of both presentation and seed count. These are full seed packs of at least 100 seeds of each of these varieties.

Non-GMO ♥︎ Open-Pollinated ♥︎ Outer Envelope is 5 x 7” ♥︎ Seed Packs contain 100+ seeds