Darkness lettuce
Lactuca sativa 'Darkness'
USDA zones2 to 11
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Erect
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Notes
'Darkness' lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Darkness') is a vegetable for containers, food gardens, and low maintenance beds. It is typically grown as an annual. It shrugs off cool spells and light frost, though a hard freeze will damage it. This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist soil of most types. It grows at a rapid rate and is ready to harvest in about 30 days. The seed is open-pollinated.
Pairs well with Peppermint Swiss chard, Del Monte spinach, Santo cilantro, and Long Island Mammoth dill.