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Aug 19, 2011 | By Ellen Douglas
When it comes to lettuce, even nonexperts can predict the relative nutritional value of each type of salad green. In general, the darker the leaf of the lettuce, the more nutritious it is. As you might expect from its medium-green color, buttercrunch lettuce's health value is somewhere between pale, low-vitamin iceberg lettuce and the nutritional powerhouse of dark green Romaine salad greens.
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Buttercrunch is a cultivar of butterhead lettuce. Butterheads form recognizable heads, as opposed to leafy varities like Simpson lettuce, though butterheads aren't as tightly formed as iceberg or Romaine lettuce. Along with buttercrunch, Bibb lettuce and Boston lettuce are also in the butterhead salad green family. The leaves of butterhead lettuces are small and medium green to pale green. Their soft texture inspired the lettuce group's common name, butterhead. In a mixed-green salad, buttercrunch's sweet taste contrasts well with the stronger flavors of a green such as Romaine.
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Buttercrunch
Considered one of the top-quality Bibb-type varieties, this tender and delicious lettuce is tasty in salads.
Spacing: 8-12in (20-30cm)
Exposure: Full Sun - 6+ hours direct sun
Days to harvest: 65-70