Red Romaine Lettuce Seeds

Red Romaine Lettuce is a beautiful heirloom lettuce variety prized for its crisp texture, vibrant coloring, and outstanding garden performance. Its striking red and green leaves bring both flavor and visual appeal to salads, sandwiches, wraps, and fresh garden dishes.

This nutritious lettuce variety offers a mild slightly sweet flavor with just a hint of pleasant bitterness. The sturdy upright leaves hold their texture well even when topped with dressings, making Red Romaine an excellent choice for Caesar salads, gourmet sandwiches, and protein-rich fresh salads.

Red Romaine Lettuce thrives in cooler weather and performs especially well in spring and fall gardens. The attractive colorful leaves not only provide excellent eating quality but also add beauty to raised beds, kitchen gardens, and market displays.

Easy to grow and highly productive, this heirloom lettuce variety is a dependable choice for home gardeners, homesteads, and market growers seeking crisp flavorful greens with excellent visual appeal.

Red Romaine Lettuce Seed Details

• Quantity: 500 Seeds
• Plant Type: Heirloom Lettuce
• Leaf Color: Red and Green
• Flavor: Crisp Mild Slightly Sweet Flavor
• Growth Habit: Upright Romaine Heads
• 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: Salads, Sandwiches, Wraps, Caesar Salads, Fresh Eating, Raised Beds, Market Gardens, Homesteads

How to Save Seeds

Lettuce is primarily self-pollinating, so different varieties can generally be grown approximately 50 feet apart while maintaining seed purity.

For overwintering seed crops, lettuce plants should ideally reach around 2 inches tall before cold weather arrives. Apply heavy mulch throughout winter to help protect the plants.

During the following growing season the plants will bolt and send up tall flowering stalks reaching 4 to 5 feet in height. Once bolting occurs the leaves become bitter and are no longer suitable for eating.

The flowers will continue opening over several weeks before feathery seed heads begin forming. Harvest seeds by gently shaking the mature seed heads into a paper bag as they dry.