Lettuce, Monte Carlo Romaine

Monte Carlo is a crisp romaine lettuce with dense, upright heads and excellent heat tolerance. The crunchy ribs and sweet leaves are perfect for Caesar salads, and this variety resists bolting better than many romaines.

Lettuce: Elevate your garden with this fast-growing salad crop, offering an astounding array of colors, textures, and flavors—from buttery smooth buttercrunch to crispy romaine and spicy, frilly oakleaf varieties. Enjoy continuous 'cut-and-come-again' harvests from leaf types for months, or watch heading types form dense hearts in just 55-75 days. Perfect for early spring and fall gardens as it thrives in cool weather, these red/purple varieties also boost your diet with powerful anthocyanin antioxidants. This is fresh eating at its finest!

• Growing Tips: Transplant 4 weeks before the last frost for a spring crop or late summer for a fall crop, spacing 8-12 inches apart; provide shade in warm weather to prevent rapid bolting.

• Sun Requirements: Full sun in cool weather, partial shade in warm conditions (4-6 hours minimum).

• Preferred Soil: Rich, well-drained, and moisture-retentive soil.

• Harvest Details: For leaf types, begin cutting outer leaves at 4-6 inches; for heading types, harvest whole heads when firm; quality declines rapidly in heat; matures in 45-75 days depending on the type.