Lettuce - Leaf - Oak Leaf

$1.59

This lettuce likes light, fertile, moist, and well drained soils. This lettuce can also be grown inside in containers. If you get your garden in a little late, Oak Leaf lettuce may be one of the best varieties for you. Oak Leaf will stay tasty and non-bitter well into the heat of summer. They will grow in light shade. 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. Oak Leaf lettuce makes classy mixed salads and stays tasty even in drought and heat. The Lettuce Oak Leaf, 'Lactuca sativa', is an old time favorite. The plant is attractive with fairly tight rosettes of medium green leaves. The leaves are very attractive with the oak leaf shape. Successive plantings of Bon Vivant can produce lettuce spring through fall. It will send up a seed stalk, which causes foliage to taste bitter, in heat generally above 90 degrees. Oak Leaf Lettuce is an annual cool season plant. Lettuce grows well near cabbage, beets, carrots, chives, garlic, and onion. ... more

Salvia - Mixed Colors The Mixed Colors Salvia, 'Salvia splendens', has very unusual intensely colored spikes on dense, deep green plants. This plant has a dramatic appearance in mass plantings, border, and pots. The Mixed Colors Salvia have 6 to 8 inch tall spikes of salmon, rose, scarlet, and violet flowers. This plant will do best in full sun, but will thrive and bloom in partial shade. Mixed Color Salvias will do well in in ordinary well-drained garden soil. They should be watered regularly but not to the point of soggy soil conditions. Plant in the spring after the last killing frost date. This Salvia is easy to grow and makes an excellent border plant and is great in containers or planters.