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- All seeds
- Makkelijke Moestuin sowing calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What are Salanovas?
- What does F1 mean?
- African Marigold: sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix: sowing and growing
- Endive: sowing and growing
- Baby broccoli
- Bush tomato
- Bush basil: sowing and growing
- Beetroot: sowing and growing
- Lente-ui
- Chinese bieslook
- Chioggia beetroot: sowing and growing
- Bindsla
- Boterboon
- Climbing courgette
- Dropplant
- Yellomato: sowing and growing
- Goudsbloem
- Komkommer
- Cilantro: sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce: sowing and growing
- NZ spinach: sowing and growing
- OI-kers
- Paksoi
- Palmkool
- Peultjes
- Red Crispy lettuce
- Baby pompoen
- Reuzen radijs
- Arugola: sowing and growing
- Snijbiet
- Snijboon
- Bacon bean: sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Stamboon
- Stengelsla
- Sugarsnap
- Veldsla
- Wintererwt
- Winterpostelein
- Wortel
- Paarse wortel
- Zonnebloem
Sowing and growing Red Crispy Lettuce
This delicious Salanova lettuce variety grows quickly, bolts late, and the heads develop a huge amount of sturdy leaves that are all approximately the same size.
What is red Crispy lettuce?
Leaf lettuce includes all types of lettuce that do not form true heads but have loose leaves. When harvesting, you pick the outer leaves and leave the core so it can continue to grow.
The red Crispy lettuce is a Salanova variation with sturdy leaves that remain relatively small, but more than make up for it with their enormous quantity.
The leaves also have a unique shape, deeply lobed with pointed tips and a beautiful red, sometimes almost purple color. Super beautiful for your salads 😀
Moreover, the plants bolt much later than other varieties. So you can keep harvesting them for a long time.
The red Crispy lettuce is a Salanova variation with sturdy leaves that remain relatively small, but more than make up for it with their enormous quantity.
The leaves also have a unique shape, deeply lobed with pointed tips and a beautiful red, sometimes almost purple color. Super beautiful for your salads 😀
Moreover, the plants bolt much later than other varieties. So you can keep harvesting them for a long time.
Another advantage: slugs leave red lettuce alone much more than green.
Vitamins and minerals in loose-leaf lettuce
Loose-leaf lettuce doesn't contain a lot of vitamins and minerals, but what it does have is good for our body and health. And every little bit helps, right?
It contains a fair amount of vitamin A, as well as some B11 and C, iron, and kalium. And lots of fiber: great for your intestines 🙂
It contains a fair amount of vitamin A, as well as some B11 and C, iron, and kalium. And lots of fiber: great for your intestines 🙂
More about our Red Crispy lettuce seeds
This delicious lettuce variety grows quickly, does not bolt, and the heads produce a large amount of sturdy leaves that are all about the same size.
Variety name: Salanova Blastex
Family: leaf
Number per square: 1
Height: 15 to 25 cm (front or middle row)
Pre-sowing: March to August
Sowing depth: 0.5 to 1 cm
Germination time: between 15 and 18°C in 2 to 8 days
Time to harvest: from 6-7 weeks
Sunlight: can be in both sun and shade
Note: These seeds come in clay pills - and are therefore quite expensive - but you will harvest lots of lettuce from each head for a long time. You get 12 pills with 1 seed in each.
What do you need to grow your own red Crispy lettuce?
To harvest as much and as quickly as possible, first sow indoors and place the Crispy outside in your bed when it is already a small plant.
For pre-sowing, you need the following:
For pre-sowing, you need the following:
- MM pre-sowing mix
- MM-airpot (the small size)
- transparent kitchen foil
- Crispy seeds
Once the plant can go outside, you need the following:
- a 30x30 cm section with an airy, nutritious soil mix
- a place with at least 6 hours of sunlight a day
In other words: an MM-mini, or a patch in one of our boxes, filled with Makkelijke Moestuinmix.
With this perfect soil mix, growing red Crispy lettuce is really super easy. If you grow on a poor quality (potting) soil, then it is more difficult and the results will be disappointing. So don't skimp on that and just go for the best.
How do you sow and grow red Crispy lettuce?
This Salanova lettuce is featured in the free Makkelijke Moestuin app. If you use it, it guides you from seed to harvest.
Each vegetable goes through several stages - we call these levels. The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and regularly checks if your plants are ready to move on to the next level.
So, you don't need to know in advance how to successfully grow red Crispy lettuce. But if you enjoy reading about it, I'll tell you now what the whole process will look like.
Each vegetable goes through several stages - we call these levels. The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and regularly checks if your plants are ready to move on to the next level.
So, you don't need to know in advance how to successfully grow red Crispy lettuce. But if you enjoy reading about it, I'll tell you now what the whole process will look like.
Level 1: Pre-sow Red Crispy lettuce
Salanova varieties like this Crispy type take about six to seven weeks to grow from a seed into a plant that's ready for its first harvest.
During the early weeks, they’re still pretty vulnerable to bad weather and pests like slugs. That's why you should start the seeds indoors and, about five weeks later, transplant the young plant into your bed. This way, you can make the most out of your garden patches.
During the early weeks, they’re still pretty vulnerable to bad weather and pests like slugs. That's why you should start the seeds indoors and, about five weeks later, transplant the young plant into your bed. This way, you can make the most out of your garden patches.
This is how you pre-sow:
- Fill an airpot with MM pre-sowing mix
- Place 1 seed in the mix: 1 cm deep
- Cover the pot with a piece of clear plastic wrap
- Place the pot in a cool spot (between 15 and 18°C)
Level 2 and 3: Crispy leaf lettuce seedlings on the windowsill
As soon as you see the seedling emerge, remove the foil and from that moment place it in a light and cool spot. For example, on the windowsill of an unheated bedroom or in a cold greenhouse if you have one.
In the following weeks, keep the mix moist and rotate the pot a quarter turn every day. This prevents the seedling from growing crooked.
After about 3 weeks, the seedling has grown into a small plant, and it's time for the next level.
Level 3: Verplaatsen naar buiten
Weer een paar dagen later is de zaailing dan groot genoeg om naar buiten te gaan.
In maart en april zet je het potje dan nog op een plek waar de zaailing beschermd is tegen vorst en slecht weer.
Vanaf mei hoeft zelfs dat niet meer. Dan kun je 'm bijvoorbeeld ingraven in een leeg vak of in een MM-mini. Daar passen zelfs makkelijk 9 potjes in:
In maart en april zet je het potje dan nog op een plek waar de zaailing beschermd is tegen vorst en slecht weer.
Vanaf mei hoeft zelfs dat niet meer. Dan kun je 'm bijvoorbeeld ingraven in een leeg vak of in een MM-mini. Daar passen zelfs makkelijk 9 potjes in:
Zo maak je optimaal gebruik van de vakken en geef je het plantje pas een eigen vak als je als er weer eentje vrijkomt.
De komende tijd check je regelmatig of de mix in het potje nog vochtig is, en bescherm je de zaailing tegen slakken. That's it.
De komende tijd check je regelmatig of de mix in het potje nog vochtig is, en bescherm je de zaailing tegen slakken. That's it.
Level 9: Place your plant in an MM-bak or an MM-mini
Once your little plant has adjusted to the outdoor air, it’s time to move it to your garden box.
Make sure the root ball is nice and moist first. You can do this by placing the pot in a small dish of water for a bit.
Then, dig a hole in the center of your chosen patch, pour a little water in, and place the plant in - at the same depth it was in the pot.
Press the mix a bit and you're done 🙂
Make sure the root ball is nice and moist first. You can do this by placing the pot in a small dish of water for a bit.
Then, dig a hole in the center of your chosen patch, pour a little water in, and place the plant in - at the same depth it was in the pot.
Press the mix a bit and you're done 🙂
Level 10: Harvesting red Crispy lettuce
About 5 to 6 weeks after sowing, your plants are ready for the first harvest.
Cut or pick off leaves from the outside of the plant, close to the ground. Leave some small leaves and the center of the plants so they can continue to grow from the inside.
This way you can can keep harvesting for longer.
Cut or pick off leaves from the outside of the plant, close to the ground. Leave some small leaves and the center of the plants so they can continue to grow from the inside.
This way you can can keep harvesting for longer.
What do you use lettuce for?
The name says it all: you use the leaves for salads. The leaves are also very tasty in green smoothies or on a healthy sandwich.
Start harvesting once the leaves are about 10 cm. At that point, the leaves are still very tender: perfect for salads. But even when the leaves are a bit larger, they remain tasty.
Only when the plants are over 2 months old do the leaves become tougher and slightly bitter.
At that point, use it for a mash, stir-fry, or make a tasty soup with it 😀
Start harvesting once the leaves are about 10 cm. At that point, the leaves are still very tender: perfect for salads. But even when the leaves are a bit larger, they remain tasty.
Only when the plants are over 2 months old do the leaves become tougher and slightly bitter.
At that point, use it for a mash, stir-fry, or make a tasty soup with it 😀
The following levels
During the last levels, you will continue to harvest the leaves of the Crispy lettuce until you find the leaves less tasty to eat raw in salads.
At that point, harvest all the leaves - for a stir-fry dish -
At that point, harvest all the leaves - for a stir-fry dish -
clear out the patch or your MM-mini and prepare it for the next vegetable.
So: what’s stopping you from sowing and growing your own Crispy lettuce?
It’s a tasty and easy vegetable to grow, you can harvest it for a long time, and the leaves look fantastic.
If you regularly start seeds in a pot, you’ll always have some plants ready to fill any empty patches throughout the season. This way, you can enjoy it (almost) all year round.
Plus: our materials + app make it almost impossible to fail 😀
If you regularly start seeds in a pot, you’ll always have some plants ready to fill any empty patches throughout the season. This way, you can enjoy it (almost) all year round.
Plus: our materials + app make it almost impossible to fail 😀
Buy your red leaf lettuce seeds here or put together a complete package:
Enjoy!
About our seeds
- All seeds
- Makkelijke Moestuin sowing calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What are Salanovas?
- What does F1 mean?
- African Marigold: sowing and growing
- Asian salad mix: sowing and growing
- Endive: sowing and growing
- Baby broccoli
- Bush tomato
- Bush basil: sowing and growing
- Beetroot: sowing and growing
- Lente-ui
- Chinese bieslook
- Chioggia beetroot: sowing and growing
- Bindsla
- Boterboon
- Climbing courgette
- Dropplant
- Yellomato: sowing and growing
- Goudsbloem
- Komkommer
- Cilantro: sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce: sowing and growing
- NZ spinach: sowing and growing
- OI-kers
- Paksoi
- Palmkool
- Peultjes
- Red Crispy lettuce
- Baby pompoen
- Reuzen radijs
- Arugola: sowing and growing
- Snijbiet
- Snijboon
- Bacon bean: sowing and growing
- Spinach
- Stamboon
- Stengelsla
- Sugarsnap
- Veldsla
- Wintererwt
- Winterpostelein
- Wortel
- Paarse wortel
- Zonnebloem