Friday, March 25, 2011

Heirloom Lettuce...The Salad Trend Is Everywhere!

This beautiful variety steals all the attention in the salad garden. In Europe, this Austrian heirloom is called Forellenschluss romaine and is one of the most prized of all varieties. A dark green leaved romaine splashed with wine-red speckles. Imagine dipping a paintbrush in red paint and giving it a hard shake onto your romaine lettuce. You've got the picture. Your taste buds will like it too, for its rich buttery flavor.  I have ordered some of these seeds and will get them started to go into the lettuce planters for the farm market!  Salad is in...now if I could only convince my boys that it is not poisonous!

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