🥬 Lettuce Mix – Colourful Salad Blend for Continuous Harvest

Lettuce Mix is a carefully selected blend of looseleaf and baby leaf lettuces, offering a range of colours, textures and flavours in one easy sowing. The mix typically includes green, red and bronze leaves with varying shapes, creating attractive salads with excellent taste and crunch. Fast-growing and ideal for cut-and-come-again harvesting, this mix is perfect for beds, raised beds, containers and window boxes. Suitable for harvesting young as baby leaf or allowing plants to mature for larger leaves.

Key Features

● Mixed lettuce varieties for colour and flavour diversity

● Ideal for baby leaf and cut-and-come-again harvests

● Fast-growing and easy to grow

● Continuous cropping with regular cutting

● Perfect for salads, sandwiches and fresh use

How to Sow & Grow Lettuce Mix (UK)

Direct outdoors: III–IX (March–September)

Sow indoors: II–III (February–March)

Transplant outdoors: III–IV (March–April)

Harvest: IV–X (April–October)

Life cycle: Annual

Germination temperature: 8–18 °C (46–64 °F)

Average germ time: 7–14 days

Depth: 0.5 cm (¼ in)

Light required: Yes

Moisture: Keep soil evenly moist

Environment: Full sun to partial shade

Soil type: Fertile, well-drained soil rich in organic matter

Plant spacing: Broadcast for baby leaf or thin to 20–25 cm (8–10 in)

Height: 15–30 cm (6–12 in)

Sowing & Growing Tips (variety-specific)

● Sow little and often for a constant supply of fresh leaves.

● Harvest young leaves regularly to encourage regrowth.

● Provide light shade in hot weather to prevent bolting.

● Water consistently for tender, sweet leaves.

● Ideal for beginner gardeners.

Special Features

● Excellent for baby leaf salads

● Wide colour and texture mix

● Reliable and productive throughout the season