Description
After multiple years of green leaf lettuce trialing, we finally found a variety (thanks Adaptive Seeds!) that met our expectations for vigor, beauty, flavor, and ability to produce seed in our region. Everyone, meet Snowflake Lettuce, a fast-growing, frilly, lime green, bolt-resistant, crispy, mild leaf lettuce suitable for most of the growing season with the small exception of summer’s peak. Heads with get wonderfully large if not harvested early. Ukrainian origin.
Days to Maturity: 55
Latin name: Lactuca sativa
Life cycle for seed saving: Annual
Planting Instructions:
Plant Snowflake Lettuce Spring through early Fall. Optimal soil temperature
for germination is 70-85°. Planting depth: 1/8”. Full heads – start indoors and transplant at 12”, or direct seed every inch and thin to 12”. Baby leaf- seed 4-5/inch with 5” between rows.
All of our seed is Non-GMO and Certified Organic by Washington State Department of Agriculture. We grow the majority of our varieties here at Deep Harvest Farm on Whidbey Island while we purchase the rest from other small, organic Northwest seed growers. Finally, all of our offerings are open-pollinated (OP) so that you too can save and share seed from these plants!
