Slobolt lettuce

Slobolt lettuce has been a garden standard since 1946. Nobody likes it when their lettuce bolts, and this variety is extremely slow-bolting. It produces loose, ruffly, sweet green leaves. You can harvest it all summer if you want, one leaf at a time. Leaves are never bitter.

Sun Exposure

• Full to partial sun (six to eight hours)

Soil pH

• 6.2 to 6.8

Hardiness Zones

• 4 to 9

Spacing

• Thin to 12 inches apart for heads; 3 inches apart for cut-and-come-again
• Plant rows 12 inches apart

Moisture

• Water deeply 1 inch a week; do not let soil dry out

Notes

• Very slow to bolt
• Harvest all summer
• Good for cut-and-come-again harvesting

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