Red Cross lettuce
Lactuca sativa 'Red Cross'
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
- Bloom color
- Red
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Notes
'Red Cross' lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Red Cross') is a vegetable for containers, food gardens, and low maintenance growing. It is typically grown as an annual. It handles cool weather and a light frost. This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist soil of most types. It grows fast and is ready to pick in 48 days.
Pairs well with Magic Bullet tomato, Early Wonder Tall Top beet, and Teddy dill.