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Lettuce Bronze Mignonette Seeds
$3.90
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Bronze Mignonette is a beautiful old Butterhead Lettuce producing compact heads of crisp, softly frilled leaves in a striking mixture of green and bronze. The outer foliage develops its richest bronze colouring in good light, surrounding a tender, creamy-coloured heart.
The leaves have the soft texture and mild, buttery flavour characteristic of butterhead lettuces, with enough crispness to give them excellent substance in salads. Harvest individual outer leaves as required or allow plants to form their compact heads, reaching approximately 20 cm across.
Cultivated for well over a century, Bronze Mignonette is particularly valued for its adaptability. It performs well in both humid and dry warm climates and shows useful resistance to premature bolting, allowing it to remain productive as conditions begin to warm.
Lettuce is one of the world’s oldest cultivated salad vegetables, grown for thousands of years and spreading through the ancient Mediterranean world. Today its enormous diversity includes looseleaf, cos, butterhead and crisphead forms adapted to a wide range of climates and seasons.
Like most lettuces, Bronze Mignonette prefers fertile, well-drained soil with a near-neutral pH and consistent moisture. Some afternoon shade can be beneficial during warmer weather.
Seed count: approximately 600–1,000 seeds/g
Approximately 200 seeds per packet
When to Plant (Australia)
Tropics: Autumn to winter
Subtropics: Autumn to spring
Mild climates: Autumn to spring
Cold climates: Spring to autumn
Planting / Sowing
Sow shallowly, approximately 3–5 mm deep, directly into prepared soil or raise in trays for transplanting. Lettuce seed needs only a light covering and germinates best in cool to mild conditions.
Space plants approximately 20–25 cm apart to allow the compact heads to develop. Grow in full sun during cool weather or provide some afternoon shade as temperatures increase.
Keep soil consistently moist to encourage rapid, tender growth and reduce stress that can cause bitterness or premature bolting. Harvest individual outer leaves for an extended picking period or cut the complete head once it reaches the desired size.
Due to quarantine restrictions, TAS has an 800g limit per each seed variety and WA has a 10,000 seeds limit per variety.
Lettuce Bronze Mignonette Seeds
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Lactuca sativa
Bronze Mignonette is a beautiful old Butterhead Lettuce producing compact heads of crisp, softly frilled leaves in a striking mixture of green and bronze. The outer foliage develops its richest bronze colouring in good light, surrounding a tender, creamy-coloured heart.
The leaves have the soft texture and mild, buttery flavour characteristic of butterhead lettuces, with enough crispness to give them excellent substance in salads. Harvest individual outer leaves as required or allow plants to form their compact heads, reaching approximately 20 cm across.
Cultivated for well over a century, Bronze Mignonette is particularly valued for its adaptability. It performs well in both humid and dry warm climates and shows useful resistance to premature bolting, allowing it to remain productive as conditions begin to warm.
Lettuce is one of the world’s oldest cultivated salad vegetables, grown for thousands of years and spreading through the ancient Mediterranean world. Today its enormous diversity includes looseleaf, cos, butterhead and crisphead forms adapted to a wide range of climates and seasons.
Like most lettuces, Bronze Mignonette prefers fertile, well-drained soil with a near-neutral pH and consistent moisture. Some afternoon shade can be beneficial during warmer weather.
Seed count: approximately 600–1,000 seeds/g
Approximately 200 seeds per packet
When to Plant (Australia)
Tropics: Autumn to winter
Subtropics: Autumn to spring
Mild climates: Autumn to spring
Cold climates: Spring to autumn
Planting / Sowing
Sow shallowly, approximately 3–5 mm deep, directly into prepared soil or raise in trays for transplanting. Lettuce seed needs only a light covering and germinates best in cool to mild conditions.
Space plants approximately 20–25 cm apart to allow the compact heads to develop. Grow in full sun during cool weather or provide some afternoon shade as temperatures increase.
Keep soil consistently moist to encourage rapid, tender growth and reduce stress that can cause bitterness or premature bolting. Harvest individual outer leaves for an extended picking period or cut the complete head once it reaches the desired size.
Due to quarantine restrictions, TAS has an 800g limit per each seed variety and WA has a 10,000 seeds limit per variety.
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