This was the best tasting, most prolific, most beautiful lettuce in my first salad garden. It is hard to find a lettuce that grows relia...Read Morebly in my climate (Zone 9) without bolting. This one is a real find. Very tasty, as well. I had more salads than could be eaten from November until February.
Broomfield, CO (Zone 5b) | February 2008 | positive
From your friends at Botanical Interests:
This fancy buttery lettuce with ruffled burgundy-tinged leaves is a salad lover?...Read Mores dream. 1985 All America Winner with a long harvest period. Red Sails lettuce grows mature leaves in just over six weeks and is very heat resistant. The soft buttery leaves will grow for quite some time in warm weather without getting bitter or bolting. A good choice for a colorful salad with only one variety! Try growing its deep burgundy to bronze leaves in containers for a beautiful edible ornamental. This packet plants? Five 8 foot rows or five successive plantings of 8 foot rows. When to start outside: RECOMMENDED. Early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before average last frost, and successive plantings thereafter every 3 weeks until 2 weeks before the first fall frost. (Skip very hot summers.) USDA zone 8 or warmer: sow in fall for winter harvest. When to start inside: 6 weeks before average last frost and in summer when soil temperatures are too warm outside to germinate lettuce seed."
This very popular variety is also one of my favorites. It's a great "all weather" lettuce, and I grow it from early Spring, through the h...Read Moreeat of Summer and as late into the Fall as possible.
Oklahoma City, OK (Zone 7a) | October 2004 | neutral
Leaf lettuce variety and has fringed leaves variegated with green and maroon. It is one of the easiest and most reliable varieties to gr...Read Moreow.
Sow seeds in early spring and again after the very hot days of summer are over. In cooler climates, you can make 2 to 3 spring plantings, timed 2 weeks apart.
To harvest, pull the whole plant or just snap off the outer leaves.
I totally agree with Lupinelover...excellent lettuce plant, both in growth habit and taste. Can't imagine a year in the garden w/out it....Read More Great also as an ornamental if you let it bolt!
Zone 8, raised bed, 80 degree heat - could not compare to "New Red Fire" for color, substance, productivity, or heat resistance.
For the first time in winter 2009 I grew in a container just for fun. Very satisfying to eat homegrown lettuce in salads/sandwiches.
Easy to grow, Container friendly.
A beautiful plant - good color in the salad bowl! Grew like a dream.
This was the best tasting, most prolific, most beautiful lettuce in my first salad garden. It is hard to find a lettuce that grows relia...Read More
From your friends at Botanical Interests:
This fancy buttery lettuce with ruffled burgundy-tinged leaves is a salad lover?...Read More
A bronze red oakleaf type.
This very popular variety is also one of my favorites. It's a great "all weather" lettuce, and I grow it from early Spring, through the h...Read More
Leaf lettuce variety and has fringed leaves variegated with green and maroon. It is one of the easiest and most reliable varieties to gr...Read More
I totally agree with Lupinelover...excellent lettuce plant, both in growth habit and taste. Can't imagine a year in the garden w/out it....Read More
A leaf-type lettuce, this variety has much better flavor than most ornamental varieties. Very high Vitamin A and C content. 45 days from seed.