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Locally adapted, ecologically responsible heirloom seeds ♡ Outaouais, QC
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- Lettuce
- Butterhead lettuce
- Pirat butter lettuce ( Sprenkel, Brauner Trotzkopf)
Pirat butter lettuce ( Sprenkel, Brauner Trotzkopf)
Pirat butter lettuce ( Sprenkel, Brauner Trotzkopf)
lactuca sativa
Annual plant, open pollinated.
Pirat lettuce is a beautiful butterhead type that bears crinkled dark green leaves with crimson edges, with some speckling (pebbling), forming a dense head the size of a softball.
This is an heirloom variety that is native to the German Alps, apparently a descendant of the French heirloom Merveille des Quatre Saisons, besting its predecessor for heat tolerance and resistance to bolting (and merveille des 4 saisons is incredibly heat tolerant!). It is known by a handful of German names, such as: Spenkel (meaning speckled), Brauner Trotzkopf (meaning brown stubborn-head, referencing the lettuce’s resistance to bolting), and Pirat (meaning pirate). It is a favorite amongst gardeners for its beauty, taste, and resistance to downy midlew, tip burn and white mold.
Days to maturity: 55 days
200 seeps per pack.
Seed starting:
Lettuce can be started indoors or directly seeded in early spring as soon as the soil can be worked. If starting indoors, sow 2-3 seeds per pot and thin to one. Transplant outdoors after 3 weeks. If direct seeding outdoors, for full sized heads plant 3 seeds per 8 inches, and thin to one seedling per group. Cover the soil every so lightly!
Sow every three weeks for a continuous supply all summer long.
Companion plants: carrots, radish, cucumbers, beans.
We live and garden on ancestral territory of Algonquin Anishnaabeg People, forever territory of wild fauna & flora, cultivated lands of Irish and French settlers, and now beloved home of the junco seeds family (humans, chickens, dogs, sheep and cats)