Lettuce Oakleaf

As a result there are a lot of different strains of oak leaf lettuce that have evolved in different locations. A great oakleaf lettuce with dark red leaves - red colour appears most strongly in full sun position in part shade or under shade cloth leaf colour is more of a greenish red.

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The leaf form produces a dense bunch of leaves which have a tender sweet flavour with good resistance to bolting.

Lettuce oakleaf. One of oldest most popular salad vegetables spread from India in ancient times and enjoying a resurgence. An oak leaf lettuce that does well in both heat cold. It is ideal in fresh salads sandwiches and burgers.

It produces green tender oak-shaped leaves which resists turning bitter very well it provides a terrific cut comes again harvest. Harvest good-sized plants in six weeks. The vibrant burgundy stained leaves form a semi-tight rosette growing upward and outward.

One of the best all year varieties -. Oak leaf lettuce is an heirloom. Download Free Vegetable Growing Guide PDF.

Learn more about seed types here. Care Sowing Instructions. Royal Oakleaf lettuce is an improved Oakleaf variety that is slower to bolt.

All have a high resistance to lettuce aphid. Lettuce Oakleaf Smile. Varieties available for all seasons.

Woolworths Green Oakleaf Lettuce with its mild soft taste and distinctive oak-shaped leaves this lettuce can be enjoyed all year round. Superb appearance with bright green colour and sweet flavour coupled with soft delicious texture. Lettuce Green Oakleaf is popular Heirloom variety grown for its striking rich red colour and its beautiful notched leaves which are shaped like an oak leaf.

Lettuce Green Oakleaf Panisse A quick growing dense and delicious oakleaf which is good for late summer and autumn planting. Red Oak Leaf lettuce has a buttery texture and an incredibly mellow nutty and sweet flavour. Oak Leaf - Green Open leaf shaped like oak leaf sow anytime but summer.

Does well in hot weather. Seeds have been saved and handed down for hundreds of years. Rich well drained soil.

Green leaves that resemble oak tree leaves. Very quick and easy to grow and great for salads. Looseleaf type lettuces do not form a compact head and are cultivated for the tender delicate leaves which grow from a central stalk.

Mostly dislikes very hot conditions and will tolerate some shade. As outer leaves are picked plants produce more inner leaves. Red Oak leaf lettuce have elongated lobed and loosely serrated leaves similar to those of oak leaves.

All the lettuce varieties we sell have been bred for both flavour and disease resistance. For example Seed Savers Exchange has a variety that is reportedly known as Baltimore of Philadelphia Oak Leaf from the 1880s. Lettuce Green Oakleaf Lot of approx 150 seeds This variety produces a green almost fluffy head with thin loose leaves which are great for salads and baby lettuce.

Heads form large rosettes of uniform leaves that are heat resistant. Leaves are dark green and shiny with an oak leaf shape and many lobes. They usually reach maturity between 45-55 days after germination though larger leaves can be collected throughout the growth cycle.

Deeply lobed green leaves. LETTUCE Oakleaf Green produces firm rosettes of tender sweet light-green deeply lobed leaves. It resists heat and bolting long-standing never bitter with a fine flavour even late in summer.

Good variety for baby leaves. 4gm 397 in stock. Lettuce- Oakleaf Green seeds.

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