Notes
Fast leaf for shoulder seasons. New Red Fire and Tropicana hold in heat better than butterheads.
Cultivars / Leafy greens
Two Star
Leaf lettuce · Lactuca sativa var. crispa
DTM
50 d
58 d occupancy · moderate
Rows
4
6 in in-row
Density
8
plants / bed-ft
Yield
8
heads / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$19.80
$2.75 / head
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 22 d
- Germination
- 4 d
- Germ temp
- 40°F – 80°F (opt 68°F)
- Seed spacing
- ½ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 4
- In-row
- 6 in
- Seed spacing
- ½ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 8
- Plants / 50 ft
- 400
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 50 d
- Holding
- 8 d
- Occupancy
- 58 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.2
- Frost hardiness
- Moderate
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- head
- Units / bed-ft
- 8
- Avg unit wt
- 0.4 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 2.8 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.60 / $2.75
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 77.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.3 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.32 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.5 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.7 / 0.2 / 0.8 lb
- Family
- Asteraceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-25 → 2026-10-23
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-03
- First harvest
- 2026-05-14
- Successions that fit
- 14 · every 7 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 20 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 471 seeds · 400 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $576.00 / $990.00
Companions
carrot · onion
Avoid
broccoli