Lettuce Butterhead Buttercrunch Organic
Buttercrunch’ is a vigorous grower with a creamy yellow interior, buttery flavor and melt-in-your-mouth texture, pleasing palates since 1963. Small heads are perfect for a single-serve salad. The compact size makes it a good container variety, and it’s also attractive in the flower-garden border. All-America Selections Winner.
Variety Info
- Days to Maturity: 21–65 days
- Family:Â Asteraceae
- Type:Â Butterhead Lettuce
- Native:Â Unknown; lettuce has been in cultivation for a long time.
- Hardiness:Â Frost-tolerant annual
- Exposure:Â Full sun to part shade
- Plant Dimensions: 5″–6″ wide, 3″–5″ tall
- Variety Info:Â Large, soft, slightly crumpled light green leaves in a loose head with a creamy yellow core. ‘Buttercrunch’ is a butterhead type lettuce bred at Cornell University.
- Attributes:Â Frost Tolerant
Sowing Info
- When to Sow Outside: RECOMMENDED. 2 to 4 weeks before your average last frost date, and when soil temperature is at least 40°F, ideally 60°–70°F. Successive Sowings: Every 3 weeks until 4 to 6 weeks before your average first fall frost date. Mild Climates: Sow in fall and winter for cool season harvests.
- When to Start Inside: 4 to 6 weeks before your average last frost date, and in summer when soil temperatures are too warm (above 80°F) to germinate lettuce seed.
- Days to Emerge: 5–10 days
- Seed Depth:Â Surface to â…›”
- Seed Spacing:Â A group of 3 seeds every 6″
- Row Spacing:Â 8″
- Thinning: When ½” tall, thin to 1 every 6″
Growing Info
- Harvesting:Â Harvest in the morning, by cutting off at ground level. If regrowth is desired, cut the leaves higher, at 2″. For a continual supply, outer, individual leaves can be harvested at any stage of maturity, but leave at least half of the plant for regrowth.
