Vegetables · Cool
Lamb's Lettuce
Valerianaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 10 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–9a
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 10 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- partial shadeAlso okay:full sunshade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:sandyraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normal
Seed & start
Direct sow
Sow directly into the bed — no pre-culture needed.
Stachi's tip
Lamb's lettuce is the easiest winter veg. Sow in September, cover with fleece in November, harvest December-March. No fuss. Tolerates almost any soil.
Sowing
Harvest
Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
Articles about this plant
Pre-growing for the autumn bed: what you should already be sowing in June so the autumn doesn't stay empty
In June the bed is full and autumn feels far off. That's exactly the trap. What you pre-grow now, you harvest in October — and what you miss, you'll simply do without.
The last centimetre in your bed — plants that fill every gap
Between the tomatoes, on the edge, in the row where nothing seems to fit: four plants that are fast, stay small, and improve your main crops along the way.
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