Lolla Rosa Dark Lettuce is a stunning heirloom leaf lettuce variety known for its deeply frilled leaves and rich shades of burgundy, red, and purple. This highly ornamental lettuce adds exceptional beauty to garden beds, market displays, and fresh salads while also delivering excellent flavor and texture.
The finely curled leaves offer a mild slightly nutty flavor with a pleasant hint of bitterness that pairs wonderfully with both light vinaigrettes and creamy dressings. Crisp tender leaves provide excellent texture for salads, sandwiches, wraps, and garnishes.
Lolla Rosa Dark Lettuce is fast growing, productive, and easy to cultivate, making it a favorite among home gardeners and market growers alike. Its attractive color and frilled texture also make it a popular addition to gourmet salad mixes and edible landscaping.
This heirloom lettuce performs best in cooler weather but can tolerate a range of growing conditions with proper watering and partial shade during hotter periods.
Lolla Rosa Dark Lettuce Seed Details
- Quantity: 500 Seeds
- Plant Type: Heirloom Leaf Lettuce
- Leaf Color: Burgundy, Red, and Purple
- Flavor: Mild Nutty Flavor with Slight Bitterness
- Growth Habit: Frilled Loose Leaf Formation
- Seed Planting Depth: 1/8 Inch
- Germination Temperature: 40-65°F
- Days to Germination: 2-14 Days
- Row Spacing: 12 Inches
- Plant Spacing: 8 Inches
- 100' Row Yield: 80 Pounds
- Sun Requirements: Full Sun
- Harvest Time: Approximately 68 Days
- Ideal Uses: Fresh Salads, Sandwiches, Wraps, Garnishes, Gourmet Mixes, Raised Beds, Market Gardens
How to Save Seeds
Lettuce is primarily self-pollinating, so different lettuce varieties can generally be grown about 50 feet apart while maintaining good seed purity.
For seed production, allow plants to establish before cold weather arrives. Mulch heavily through winter to protect the plants until spring growth resumes.
As temperatures warm, the plants will bolt and produce tall flowering stalks reaching 4 to 5 feet in height. Once bolting begins the leaves become bitter and are no longer suitable for eating.
Flowers will continue opening over several weeks, followed by feathery seed heads. Harvest mature seeds by gently shaking the dry seed heads into a paper bag.
Store cleaned seeds in labeled envelopes or airtight containers in a cool dry location for future planting.
