Winter lettuce
Winter lettuce ‘Rougette de Montpellier’
Winter lettuce ‘Rougette de Montpellier’: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
'Rougette de Montpellier' winter head lettuce is a variety of Lactuca sativa, a member of the daisy family, Asteraceae. Its name refers to a lettuce producing a small round head with green and red foliage. It belongs among cool season lettuces and differs both from tall romaine types with upright leaves and from loose leaf lettuces without a head. The word winter describes its horticultural use, rather than an identical tolerance of every kind of cold.The leaves first gather in a rosette around a very short stem. Later, the inner leaves draw closer together to form the head. They are fairly thick, smooth and crisp. The outer leaves remain more open than those at the centre. Green can be accompanied by dark red colouring that becomes more noticeable as the plant develops. It is therefore not necessarily uniformly purple, and its appearance changes with its stage of growth and the…
