Pirat is a frost-tolerant lettuce that reaches harvest in just 60 days, offering gardeners a reliable spring and fall crop when temperatures dip. This compact variety grows to a tidy 8 inches tall with a 12-inch spread, fitting neatly into small garden beds or containers. Sow it indoors 8 to 10 weeks before your last spring frost, or direct sow about 4 weeks before that date to catch the sweet spot for tender, flavorful leaves before summer heat arrives.
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Pirat's frost tolerance gives it a genuine edge over tender lettuce varieties, allowing you to push your growing season into the cool months when most lettuces have bolted or faded. Its compact, uniform size makes it predictable and manageable for succession planting, and the quick 60-day timeline means you can fit multiple harvests into a single season. Keep the soil consistently moist during dry spells to prevent bitterness, and you'll be rewarded with leaves that deliver full flavor right up until frost.
Pirat is a salad lettuce grown for its tender, harvestable leaves. Use it fresh in salads, as a bed for other vegetables, or as sandwich greens. Because it matures quickly and tolerates cold, it extends your fresh harvest window well beyond summer.
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Start seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before your last spring frost date. Maintain a germination temperature of 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit for reliable sprouting.
Transplant seedlings outdoors after they've developed true leaves and the soil has warmed to at least 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Space plants 8 inches apart in rows 12 inches apart.
Direct sow seeds outdoors about 4 weeks before your last spring frost. You can continue sowing in succession until about 2 weeks before your first fall frost to capture multiple harvests.
Harvest Pirat after approximately 60 days from sowing. Pick leaves as soon as they reach usable size, or harvest the entire head when it has filled out to its mature 8-inch height. Prompt harvesting during late spring and summer plantings is especially important to beat bolting as temperatures rise.
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