Lettuce - Butterhead - Kagraner Sommer

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Lettuce - Butterhead - Kagraner Sommer

Successive plantings can produce lettuce spring through fall. Lettuce grows well near cabbage, beets, carrots, chives, garlic, and onion. They will grow in light shade. The French butterhead was originally from Germany. Lettuce likes light, fertile, moist, and well drained soils. Plant in early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before the average last frost date, and successive plantings thereafter every 3 weeks until 5 weeks before fall frost. It is excellent for window boxes, indoor pots, and is a cute border plant. The lettuce leaves of the Kagraner Summer Butterhead are slightly crumpled and light green in color. The mild tasting leaves are soft and buttery. Lettuce is a cool season annual. The Lettuce Butterhead Kagraner Summer, 'Lactuca sativa', is a French butterhead also known as 'Butter Bow Head', and has tasty, well-formed medium sized heads that are slow to bolt in summer heat. ... details

 

Sunflower - Ornamental Mix The Ornamental Blend includes Velvet Queen, Autumn Beauty, Lemon Queen, and Indian Blanket. The colors range from a soft, pretty lemon yellow to a dark velvety burgundy and from a orange/bronze bicolor to an almost endless other sunflower shades. Sunflowers make excellent cut flowers, are drought tolerant, and they bloom all summerPlant in the spring after the last average frost date. Sunflowers prefer full sun and they will grow in almost any soil. Although they are drought tolerant, they take considerable moisture. For best results water frequently. These sunflowers may need to be staked if they get too tall.

Lettuce - Butterhead - Kagraner Sommer