Lettuce - Blend - Bon Vivant

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The Lettuce Mesclun Bon Vivant, 'Lactuca sativa', is a wonderful blend of non-bitter leaf lettuces. The Bon Vivant is a tasty mixture that will excite those of you who live the diverse taste, color, and texture of leaf lettuces. Mesclun Lettuce displays leaves that have unusual shapes, a mixture of colors, and has different colors. To experience an even more European flavor, add a pinch of Radicchio or Arugula seed to this blend before planting. This variety contains Tango, Royal Oak Leaf, Red Salad Bowl, Black Seeded Simpson, Grand Rapids TBR, and Red Salis seeds. Bon Vivant Lettuce is an annual cool season plant. It will send up a seed stalk, which causes foliage to taste bitter, in heat generally above 90 degrees. Successive plantings of Bon Vivant can produce lettuce spring through fall. Plant in early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before the average last frost date, and continue successive plantings thereafter, every 3 weeks until 5 weeks before fall frost. This lettuce likes light, fertile, moist, and well drained soils. They will grow in light shade. Lettuce grows well near cabbage, beets, carrots, chives, garlic, and onion. ... more info

Watermelon - Crimson Sweet The Watermelon Crimson Sweet, 'Citrullus lanatus' has a high sugar content flesh that is very sweet and crisp. What is the first word that comes to your mind when you think of watermelon? Summer? Vacation? This watermelon will not disappoint with its very sweet (an astonishing 12% sugar level), 21 to 25 pound fruit with bright red flesh. With a little care, Crimson Sweet can be grown easily in northern climates. The Crimson Sweet is not commercially grown and is a wonderful home garden variety. A slice of watermelon has only 111 calories and 2/3 of the adult daily requirement of vitamin C. The flesh is red and sweet. Plant in the spring after the last frost. The soil should be light and well drained. Watermelon use a lot of water but the soil must never be soggy.