Muir Lettuce
Plant Size Guide

Muir Lettuce
Lactuca Sativa
days to maturity: 50 days
plant spacing: 2 plants per square foot
sunlight requirements: 8 -14 hours
look out for: slugs and snails
harvest notes: cut whole heads at soil level when they are compact and firm and before seed stalks form
annual
When shopping for lettuce head varieties it is of most importance that you get “heat tolerant” varieties. Many of the fancy varieties like “speckled deer tongue” won’t grow well in our hot winter months, and they will respond to the heat by “bolting”, which makes them inedible. When your lettuce starts to get “tall” like it's reaching to the sky, that means it's bolting; aka trying to flower and reproduce. “Muir Lettuce” is Johnny Select Seeds “most heat tolerant variety” which is like music to our ears. According to their field trials this variety was the slowest to bolt. Sold! Can be harvested as full mature heads or treated as “cut and come again” for baby leaf.
If you are looking for muir in a 6 pack option we mix it with Cherokee in our Salad Bowl 6 Pack.
Delivery Details
Delivery Details
When you place your order we head into our greenhouse to select the very best plants we have in stock for your garden. We label them with handwritten compostable wooden labels and pack them in recyclable boxes to keep them safe on their journey. Our delivery partners, Roadie, take it from there and head to the Redlands to pick up your order. Communication and tracking take place via Roadie and your driver will leave your plants in a safe and covered area.
Plant Care
Plant Care
When your plant delivery arrives, make sure you water your new plants thoroughly with a light spray of water (none of this thumb over the hose stuff). We recommend planting them within 10 days of receiving them. If you do intent to wait to plant them, we recommend placing them in a shallow reservoir (like a baking pan) and filling it with half an inch of water so they can drink the water from below while you are at work and place them in an area with plenty of sun. When planting in your garden always add a dash of Organic granular fertilizer, and give them extra water during their first week in their new home, while they adjust. We recommend disturbing the root ball as little as possible during planting.
About Our Plants
About Our Plants
All of our plants are grown in OMRI certified Organic materials (potting mix, fertilizer, seeds, etc.) and include Organic granular fertilizer, living locally-made compost, and have been cared for with healthy microorganisms from compost tea and microbial inoculants. We only use organic pesticides when needed. We only stock varieties that we have experience growing and that are season and climate appropriate for South Florida. Our curated inventory is simple enough for a beginner and interesting enough to keep an advanced gardeners attention, with new and rare varieties being added weekly.
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