Encore Lettuce Mix is an all-organic cultivar blend that delivers fresh salad greens in just 28 days, making it one of the quickest paths from seed to table. This open-pollinated mix grows compact and stays manageable in gardens from zones 3 through 9, thriving in the cool temperatures lettuce loves. Plant it with your earliest spring soil work or succession-sow through fall for continuous harvests of tender, mixed leaves.
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This exclusive organic blend germinates reliably between 60 and 70°F, then races to maturity in under a month. The compact growth habit means you can fit substantial harvests into tight spaces, spacing plants just 6 inches apart with 12 inches between rows. Cold storage extends your season even further, holding cut heads fresh for up to two weeks when kept properly chilled.
Encore Lettuce Mix is grown specifically for fresh salad greens and mixed leaf harvests. The blend format gives you visual variety and textural interest in salads without needing to juggle multiple varieties. It works equally well for whole-head harvests or the one-cut method, where you take the entire plant and process it into salad mix.
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Start seeds indoors 4 to 6 weeks before your last spring frost at temperatures between 60 and 70°F. Lettuce germinates best below 70°F, so avoid warm indoor environments. Transplant seedlings outdoors as soon as soil can be worked in spring.
Harden off seedlings by gradually exposing them to outdoor conditions over 7 to 10 days. Transplant into the garden as soon as soil is workable in spring, spacing plants 6 inches apart with 12 inches between rows. Lettuce is frost-tolerant and actually thrives in cool spring conditions.
Direct sow seeds into the garden as soon as soil can be worked in spring. Sow seeds and thin seedlings to 6-inch spacing once they develop their first true leaves. For fall crops, sow 8 to 10 weeks before your first expected frost.
Harvest Encore Lettuce Mix at 28 days when plants reach usable size, or wait longer if you prefer fuller heads. You can harvest individual outer leaves as needed, or cut the entire plant at soil level for the one-cut salad mix method. In cooler weather, lettuce grown slowly tends to develop better flavor and stores longer after cutting.
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