lettuce (leafy) 'Lollo Rossa'

An attractive red lettuce, a leafy biennial usually grown as an annual. It produces a lose head of dark red crinkled frilly leaves, from spring to autumn according to sowing date. The outer leaves can be harvested as a cut-and-come-again lettuce keeping the heart intact to produce more, or it can be left to mature and harvested as a whole lettuce, great for adding colour to your salad bowl