Red Lollo Rossa lettuce is a classic Italian lettuce, with dark copper red fading to bright green, finely crinkled frilly leaves which are crisp, almost brittle when snapped. A most beautiful lettuce!This lettuce is appreciated for its unique shape and refreshing taste. It holds well in summer heat and in the cold. Harvest outer leaves or the entire plant.
Lollo Rossa, also known as Lollo Rosso, for which you pay premium prices for in the supermarket is one of the easiest, trouble free lettuces you can grow. It's a cut-and-come-again, that is, if you pick the outer leaves, the plant will continue to grow. Given the right conditions, this type of lettuce will produce leaves for three months or more.