Picking lettuce Black seeded Simpson is an orangicaly grown, fast growing, loose-leaved lettuce variety. It's an old Heirloom European variety and is known as a very frosts resistant variety. It doesn't forms heads but loose leaves, these leaves are wrinkled, yellow-green and slightly pucked. It has a very delicious flavour and very tender leaves with a nice texture. Use steamed, stir-fried and shortly cooked. Can also be used raw in a delicious salad.
Sowing under glass: beginning of april
Sowing outdoors: may
Sowing depth: ½ cm
Germination: 7-10 days
Germination temp. : 10-18 °C
Plant distance: 35-40 cm
Plant position: sunny
Days till harvest: 45
Sow indoors or under glass from april on. Sow in moist and loose potting soil Cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil. They need light to geminate. Keep the soil moist. Transplant the seedlings after about 3-4 weeks outdoors, when there's no longer any danger of night frosts. Keep them about 35 - 40 cm apart.
Sow outdoors from may on, when there's no longer any danger of nightfrosts. Sow in rows about 35 - 40 cm apart. Sow about 35 - 40 cm 3 seeds in each hole. Cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil. Thin the seedlings to about 1 seedling each. Eat the seedlings in a salad.
Harvest a couple of leaves of each plant but leave the plant to grow on. Harvest the nicest and best leaves of each plant. Pick regurlary to make sure that the plant is growing healthy. Water with drought an keep the soil moist and weedfree. Snails, slugs and aphids are a problem with lettuce.
