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Lettuce Brown Romaine Seeds
$3.90
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Brown Romaine is an old Cos-type Lettuce producing upright, crisp leaves washed with attractive mahogany-brown and bronze tones over green. Also known as Rouge d’Hiver, meaning “Red of Winter”, it is valued for its excellent flavour, beautiful colouring and ability to remain productive across a broad range of conditions.
Unlike tightly hearting Cos varieties, Brown Romaine has a more open habit, producing crisp, elongated leaves that can be harvested individually as required. The leaves have a fresh, satisfying crunch and good flavour, making them excellent for salads, sandwiches and wraps.
This is a particularly useful variety for warmer conditions, showing good heat tolerance and resistance to premature bolting. The colouring becomes particularly attractive in cooler weather, when the bronze and mahogany tones can deepen considerably.
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, Brown Romaine prefers fertile, well-drained soil with a near-neutral pH and consistent moisture. Some afternoon shade can help extend the harvest 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 20–30 cm apart for full-sized plants, or sow more closely for baby-leaf harvesting. 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 regularly while leaving the centre intact for continued production, or harvest the whole plant when 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 Brown Romaine Seeds
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Lactuca sativa
Brown Romaine is an old Cos-type Lettuce producing upright, crisp leaves washed with attractive mahogany-brown and bronze tones over green. Also known as Rouge d’Hiver, meaning “Red of Winter”, it is valued for its excellent flavour, beautiful colouring and ability to remain productive across a broad range of conditions.
Unlike tightly hearting Cos varieties, Brown Romaine has a more open habit, producing crisp, elongated leaves that can be harvested individually as required. The leaves have a fresh, satisfying crunch and good flavour, making them excellent for salads, sandwiches and wraps.
This is a particularly useful variety for warmer conditions, showing good heat tolerance and resistance to premature bolting. The colouring becomes particularly attractive in cooler weather, when the bronze and mahogany tones can deepen considerably.
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, Brown Romaine prefers fertile, well-drained soil with a near-neutral pH and consistent moisture. Some afternoon shade can help extend the harvest 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 20–30 cm apart for full-sized plants, or sow more closely for baby-leaf harvesting. 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 regularly while leaving the centre intact for continued production, or harvest the whole plant when 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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