Écoumène Red Winter Romaine Lettuce Organic Seeds

The Red Winter Romaine Lettuce: A French Heritage, Beauty, Flavor, and Winter Hardiness!

Discover the Red Winter Romaine Lettuce, a very old variety originating from France, whose description appears in Vilmorin-Andrieux's book published in 1885. Imagine enjoying a fresh salad in the middle of winter, thanks to a lettuce capable of braving the cold! Its open, tall, and voluminous head displays a beautiful wine-red color, which intensifies with the cold, beautifully enhanced by green veins. The inner leaves, of a beautiful pale green, create a striking contrast. Their texture is both tender and crisp, and their exquisite flavor, rather sweet. The young leaves are also very popular in salads, offering a range of textures and flavors from a very young age.

Very productive, Red Winter Romaine Lettuce is also slow to bolt and exceptionally hardy. Sowing at the end of summer allows harvesting plants until spring, even in our latitudes! An experience reported by a user from Michigan, where winters are harsh, testifies to its robustness: she kept plants in the garden all winter and the lettuces picked in January were as good as those in October, simply by clearing the snow! The plants left in place eventually self-seed, ensuring continuous production. Grow our organic seeds of Red Winter Romaine Lettuce and enjoy a fresh and flavorful salad even in the middle of winter, a true gift of nature.