🥬🌿✨ Butter Lettuce Michalina Seeds (Lactuca sativa) – 100 Seeds – Tender, Sweet-Leafed Butterhead Lettuce

Description:

🌿 Latin Name: Lactuca sativa
🌱 Common Name: Butter Lettuce Michalina
📦 Quantity: 100 seeds
🌱 Type: Butterhead lettuce variety known for its soft, tender leaves and mild, buttery flavor

Butter Lettuce Michalina is a delicate and flavorful lettuce variety prized for its soft, rounded leaves with a buttery texture. It forms loose heads perfect for fresh salads, sandwiches, and wraps.

This variety performs well in cool seasons and offers good resistance to bolting.

🌞 Sowing Time:

• Outdoors: Sow seeds directly in early spring or late summer for fall harvest

• Indoors: Start seeds 4–6 weeks before last frost for transplanting

• Succession Planting: Sow every 2 weeks for continuous harvest

🪴 Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Depth: 0.5–1 cm (1/4 inch)

• Spacing: Thin or transplant seedlings 20–25 cm (8–10 inches) apart

• Row Spacing: 30 cm (12 inches)

• Germination Temperature: 15–20°C (59–68°F)

• Germination Time: 7–14 days

• Light: Full sun to partial shade

• Watering: Keep soil consistently moist to maintain tender leaves

🌱 Soil & Conditions:

• Soil Type: Well-draining, fertile soil rich in organic matter

• Soil pH: 6.0–7.0

• Fertilizer: Balanced fertilizer or compost; moderate nitrogen to promote leaf growth

• Climate: Prefers cool to moderate temperatures; avoid hot weather to reduce bolting

🧑🌾 Usage:

• Ideal for fresh salads, sandwiches, wraps, and garnishes

• Tender, buttery texture adds richness to dishes

• Suitable for home gardens, farmers markets, and culinary use

🌿 Plant Characteristics:

• Head Shape: Loose, rounded butterhead

• Leaf Texture: Soft, tender, and sweet

• Maturity: 55–70 days from sowing

• Bolting Resistance: Good, especially in cooler weather

Each package contains 1 g of Michalina butter lettuce seeds which is about 100 Seeds.

Lactuca sativa