Lettuce - Butterhead Speckles

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Speckles is rarely bitter and is quick maturing. Successive plantings can produce lettuce spring through fall. It is also know as Boston or Bib lettuce. Lettuce is a cool season annual. The unusual speckling of these mild, tender, thick but soft leaves will add visual interest to any salad. 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. They will grow in light shade. Lettuce grows well near cabbage, beets, carrots, chives, garlic, and onion. Make a salad with Speckles lettuce and no one will notice if there are bugs in it. The Lettuce Butterhead Speckles, 'Lactuca sativa', is an Heirloom that originated from the Mennonites who brought it with them from Germany and Holland over 200 years ago. ... more info

Zinnia - White Star The flowers are 1 inch wide pure white daisy-like blooms with yellow centers. This is an exciting and unusual Zinnia and it is easy to grow. Mix a high phosphorous, low nitrogen fertilizer into the soil. The White star Zinnia will begin to bloom 6 weeks after planting and continue blooming into fall. The pure white fowers provide excellent contrast in color, especially at dusk when they appear to glow. The Zinnia White Star is heat and drought tolerant. Plant this Zinnia in full sun. The Zinnia White Star is a low maintenance plant that should be deadheaded regularly. White Star Zinnias is a wonderful hanging basket flower.