Provencal Winter Mix Gourmet is a vibrant salad mix cultivar that brings the colorful tradition of French market gardens to your own plot. This Lactuca sativa blend combines lettuce, chicory, arugula, and curly endive into a single sowing, delivering a harvest in just 32 days under full sun. Ready in little more than a month, it thrives in moderate moisture and slightly acidic soil, rewarding quick succession plantings with continuous supplies of tender greens throughout the season.
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This French-inspired blend captures the essence of Provençal salad culture in a single packet. The mix layers multiple textures and flavors across lettuce, chicory, arugula, and curly endive, so you're not harvesting monotonous uniformity but rather a daily composition of contrasting greens. At just 32 days to harvest with minimal spacing requirements (1 inch between plants, 16 inches between rows), it accelerates from seed to table faster than most individual varieties. The catalog recommends direct seeding into a 4 by 4 foot bed every 2 to 3 weeks, which turns a small patch into an engine of continuous production.
This mix shines as a fresh salad foundation, where the interplay of tender lettuce, peppery arugula, slightly bitter chicory, and frilly endive creates complexity without extra work. The individual leaves are suited to cut-and-come-again harvesting, making it equally at home in composed salads, simple greens dishes, or as a base for composed plates.
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Direct seed into a prepared 4 by 4 foot bed, spacing seeds 1 inch apart in rows 16 inches apart. For continuous harvests, repeat sowing every 2 to 3 weeks rather than planting the entire season's supply at once.
Harvest using the cut-and-come-again method: cut the plants about 2 inches above the ground, leaving the growing point intact so they will regenerate with fresh growth. Individual leaves can also be picked to extend the harvest window, though the greens eventually become bitter as they bolt, signaling the end of the variety's prime season.
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