17 New Vegetable Varieties Our Professional Gardener Is Excited To Try In Her Garden – House Digest

‘Red Little Gem’ lettuce is a new cultivar of ‘Little Gem’ lettuce, a buttery, sweet miniature Romaine-style lettuce with sturdy but tender leaves tinged with dark red. Lettuce likes to be planted in early spring or early autumn, so it matures with cooler temperatures. Lettuce also thrives best in sandy, loamy, well-draining soil. Like its original cultivar, ‘Red Little Gem’ is a very heat-tolerant lettuce that is slow to bolt, so it can be grown in hotter weather with more success than other heat-sensitive lettuces.

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