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When to plant celtuce

Stem lettuce with a crisp, nutty stem; leaves are edible too. In Melbourne it goes in All year.

Start as
Seed, sown in place
Ready in
10–14 wks
Spacing
25 cm
Depth
0.5 cm
Sun
Full sun (6+ hours)
Water
Regular
Effort
Some care
Frost-tender
No

When it goes in

● means celtuce can go in that month, ○ means wait. Worked out from each town's climate zone and season, the way planting guides do it. Pick your town for the full list for that month.

Australian towns and cities
TownJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Sydney●●●●●●●●●●●●
Melbourne●●●●●●●●●●●●
Brisbane●●●●●●●●●●●●
Perth●●●●●●●●●●●●
Adelaide●●●●●●●●●●●●
Gold Coast●●●●●●●●●●●●
Newcastle●●●●●●●●●●●●
Sunshine Coast●●●●●●●●●●●●
Canberra●●●●●○○○●●●●
Central Coast●●●●●●●●●●●●
Geelong●●●●●●●●●●●●
Wollongong●●●●●●●●●●●●
Hobart●●●●●○○○●●●●
Townsville●●●●●●●●●●●●
Cairns○○○●●●●○○○○○
Toowoomba●●●●●●●●●●●●
Darwin○○○●●●●○○○○○
Ballarat●●●●●○○○●●●●
Mandurah●●●●●●●●●●●●
Bendigo●●●●●●●●●●●●
Launceston●●●●●○○○●●●●
Mackay●●●●●●●●●●●●
Rockhampton●●●●●●●●●●●●
Coffs Harbour●●●●●●●●●●●●
Blue Mountains●●●●●○○○●●●●
Bunbury●●●●●●●●●●●●
Bundaberg●●●●●●●●●●●●
Alice Springs●●●●●●●●●●●●
Mildura●●●●●●●●●●●●
Port Macquarie●●●●●●●●●●●●
Around the world
TownJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Auckland●●●●●●●●●●●●
Wellington●●●●●●●●●●●●
Christchurch●●●●●○○○●●●●
London○○●●●●●●●●●○
Manchester○○●●●●●●●●●○
Edinburgh○○●●●●●●○○○○
Dublin○○●●●●●●●●●○
New York City○○●●●●●●○○○○
Los Angeles●●●●●●●●●●●●
Chicago○○●●●●●●○○○○
Seattle○○●●●●●●●●●○
Austin●●●●●●●●●●●●
Toronto○○●●●●●●○○○○
Vancouver○○●●●●●●○○○○
Cape Town●●●●●●●●●●●●
Johannesburg●●●●●●●●●●●●
Singapore●○○○○○○○○●●●
Mumbai●○○○○○○○○●●●
Paris○○●●●●●●●●●○
Berlin○○●●●●●●○○○○

How to plant celtuce

  1. Sow seed shallowly; it needs light to germinate.
  2. Thin to 25 cm apart.
  3. Keep moist and cool.
  4. Peel the stem and eat it raw or stir-fried.

Celtuce varieties

Classic varieties are the reliable, widely grown ones. Adventurous ones are heirlooms, odd colours and rarities.

  • Celtuce Classicmild · 10–13 wksStem lettuce; peel and eat the crisp stem
  • Chinese Purple Sword Classiccolourful · 10–13 wksPurple leaf type

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Celtuce by month

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