Red Salad Bowl lettuce
Lactuca sativa 'Red Salad Bowl'
USDA zones2 to 11
SunHandles full sun to partial shade
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
Size6 to 12 inches tall
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Habit
- Mounding
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Foliage color
- Red
- Soil types
- Loam
- Toxicity
- Non-toxic
Garden uses
Notes
'Red Salad Bowl' lettuce (Lactuca sativa 'Red Salad Bowl') is a vegetable for containers and food gardens. It is typically grown as an annual. It grows well in cool weather and can ride out a light frost. This plant likes full sun to part shade and average to moist, loamy soil. It forms a mounding clump of red, oak-leaf shaped leaves. You can harvest it in about 45 days.
Pairs well with Fern Leaf dill, Giant of Italy parsley, and Manitoba tomato.