Organic Red Winter Romaine Lettuce
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Organic Red Winter Romaine Lettuce is an ancient variety of great elegance, particularly valuable for extending harvests when the garden calms down with cooler temperatures. With its wine-red outer leaves deeply nuanced with green veins and its paler heart, Lactuca sativa brings a presence to the autumn and spring vegetable garden that is as decorative as it is nourishing. Cold further intensifies its colors, giving each open head a striking relief and an almost velvety beauty in the cultivation beds. Its crisp texture and sweet, slightly sugary flavor make it a highly refined lettuce for fresh salads and simple dishes where the foliage can fully express itself. Very hardy and slow to bolt, it accompanies the gardener over a long period, offering regular harvests when many other lettuces become more capricious. Easy to grow in cool, loose, well-drained soil, it is particularly successful when sown in late summer to vigorously withstand the cooler seasons. Its ability to self-seed further adds to its charm, like a discreet promise of return to the garden. It is a colorful, resistant, and flavorful romaine, perfect for combining beauty, freshness, and endurance in the vegetable garden.
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