Red Lettuce

I think I would like to try to grow red lettuce next year but don't know much about them.

Anybody got any experience growing them?
Are they hardy?
What sort is best to try?

I am thinking of a crisp leaf that is fairly sweet tasting.
I have tasted some that are rather bitter.

I have googled but would like to know personal experiences.

Thanks

 

I haven't ever seen red lettuce in any garden but it must be grown somewhere.
Perhaps it's grown in greenhouses - just a thought.

 

Lolla Rossa are my favorite. Easy and quick to grow with a good taste. When picked if you store them washed in the bottom of your fridge they will last 5 days easily.

 

Mrs T sowed mixed salad this year and most were red lettuce of some sort. We've been just taking leaves off as we need them and they kept growing. We're just eating the remnants now although they are now dying off with the cold wet weather. A late planting under clotches should have kept us in salad longer but didn't have the space at the time, I'm wondering if we can still sow now?

 

You should be able to Terrier, I put some in on Monday and it is doing ok-well the bits that I can see of it anyway

 

Lollo Rossa is DEFINITELY easy, and very rewording. You should still be able to sow me thinks. I am certainly sowing more. In case you can always cover it with a glass pane (nothing as luxurious as a cloche in my KG yet! :D)

 

Our super market Lidls had red baby cos, they were very nice it had uk printed on the packet so some one grows them here as opposed to Spain.

 

I have been looking on line for red lettuce seeds and the one below
looks really good but I have searched all websites but cannot see
anywhere to buy them.

Just hoping someone on GC knows.


Beautiful AND Delicious! We've never seen a lolla rossa Lettuce
with leaves as dark maroon as these, nor with plants as uniform
and attractive! The flavor is superb too and it grows in 50 days.
It's called ....Lettuce Majesty.

 

Well, I am very disappointed that Lettuce Majestic seed is only available in USA and
because of Euro laws they are not allowed to send it to uk

So I looked again and found -

Cos Lettuce Marshall Seeds

Add a dash of burgundy to your salad bowl! Marshall is a tall and tasty Cos type with a brilliant colour.
Easy and beautiful enough to grow in the border among your flowering plants! It’s so good in fact, 2007
RHS trials resulted in it receiving a recommendation for an AGM.
Cos Marshall can be used early as a baby leaf or allowed to develop a crisp, tender heart
Qty:Sufficient Seed For 25ft row


It looks very similar so I will send for some and give it a try
and it can be sown in January (greenhouse) then planted out later
although it doesn't say 50 days like the other one.