Chef's Choice Mesclun Lettuce is a dynamic mix of tender baby greens designed to deliver restaurant-quality salads straight from your garden. This assortment combines lettuces and brassicas into one packet, giving you botanical variety and visual interest on the plate. Ready to harvest in just 21 to 45 days, it grows across zones 3 through 9 and thrives in full sun to partial shade, making it adaptable to nearly any garden situation. The real appeal lies in its speed and convenience: sow every three weeks for continuous harvests from spring through fall.
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This is a pre-composed salad mix rather than a single variety, which means you get multiple textures and flavors in one crop without juggling separate seed packets. The short growing window, as little as three weeks for baby greens, lets you enjoy fresh salads faster than almost any other garden vegetable. Successive sowings every three weeks keep tender leaves coming all season, and in mild climates you can even sow in fall for winter harvests. The mix requires minimal thinning and germinates at just 40°F, so you can start very early in spring while the soil is still cool.
Chef's Choice Mesclun shines in fresh salads where its mixed greens create visual and textural complexity with minimal preparation. The tender baby leaves are ready to eat raw, needing only a quick rinse and light dressing. Home gardeners use it to build custom salad blends that match their tastes and kitchen needs, while the rapid succession planting method keeps fresh greens on the table throughout the growing season.
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Mesclun can be grown indoors on a sunny windowsill or under grow lights, though transplanting is not recommended. If you choose indoor growing, provide bright light and keep the soil moist until seedlings are ready to eat as microgreens or baby greens.
Direct sow outside starting two to four weeks before your average last frost date, as soon as soil temperature reaches at least 40°F. Sow every three weeks until two weeks before your first fall frost for continuous harvests. In mild climates, also sow in fall for winter harvests.
Harvest Chef's Choice Mesclun when leaves reach baby-green size, typically 21 to 45 days after sowing depending on temperature and light conditions. Pick individual outer leaves or cut the entire plant just above soil level with scissors for a cleaner harvest. The younger the leaves, the more tender and mild they'll be; waiting too long results in tougher, more bitter greens.
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