Green Baby Leaf

Pensacola Green Baby Leaf

Latuca Sativa

This fast-growing baby leaf romaine lettuce has smooth and rounded leaves. This variety has slightly cupped leaves which prevent moisture issues between leaves.

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Fun Facts

Growing Tips

Harvesting Tips

Medicinal Uses

Nutritional Benefits

Recipes

Fun Facts

China is the largest producer of lettuce in the world!

Growing Tips

Once lettuce reaches maturity, harvest every 7-10 days to avoid the lettuce bolting* or producing flowers. You'll know the lettuce is bolting when the stem becomes tall and thick and begins to develop flowers.

Harvesting Tips

Farmers harvest their salad greens in the morning when the leaves have high water content; harvest your AVA salad greens after the pump has run for the crunchiest lettuce. Use the cut-and-come-again harvesting technique for continued harvests around 25-30 days or for a continual harvest, pick the outer leaves around 25 days and allow the inner leaves to keep growing. Watch our "Harvesting Salad Greens" video to make sure you're cutting your lettuce correctly or else it may not grow back properly. We recommend not harvesting more than 3 times, as your lettuce will become more bitter in flavour.

Medicinal Uses

Lettuce is low in calories, fat and sodium. It is a good source of fiber, iron, folate, and vitamin C.

Nutritional Benefits

Pensacola lettuce is an excellent source of vitamin A, C, B1, B2, B6, and K. It is also a very good source of dietary fiber, manganese, potassium, biotin, copper, iron, omega-3 fatty acids, phosphorus, chromium, magnesium and calcium.

Recipes

Use to add a crunchy texture and sweet flavour to a salad or on an open-faced sandwich!