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butterhead lettuce Butterhead Lettuce Lactuca sativa capitata

How to sow butterhead lettuce: Direct seed outdoors, thin to 20cm when seedlings are 3cm tall

Sun requirement for butterhead lettuce: Plant in Partial Sun

Butterhead Lettuce has been planted 6 times by Growstuff members.

Lettuce is a cool weather crop and high temperatures will impede germination and/or cause the plant to bolt (go to seed quickly). Some hybrid cultivars have been bred to be more heat-resistant.

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Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

11 weeks

First harvest expected

9 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

12 weeks after planting

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Butterhead lettuce plantings

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Butterhead lettuce harvests

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How to grow butterhead lettuces

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butterhead lettuce is a variety of lettuce

Scientific names

Lactuca sativa capitata

Alternate names

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