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'Tango' Lettuce
 
Sub-Category: Looseleaf
 
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Description: Looseleaf type grown for baby leaf harvest or mature heads. Frilly green oak-shaped leaves. For mature heads, plant only in fall, winter, and early spring to prevent bolting. Bolting tolerant.
Days To Maturity: 28-45
Seed Sources: Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014

 
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Ease/Reliability: (5.0 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 07/08/2023 by NJohn - An intermediate gardener

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Fulton, Georgia, United States
Frost Free Season: Fewer than 103 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

Easy early germination after last frost here in zone 8B.\r\nI love this crispy, crunchy long lasting lettuce. Once washed and spun in my salad spinner, it keeps up to 8-10 days in my crisper. Cut an grow provides enough lettuce for me and a few friends from April until late June before bolting. \r\nI am trying to germinate it now, early July, in the shade of some taller plants in the hopes of having this lettuce all summer.
 

Reviewed on 12/10/2006 by Pat66 - An experienced gardener

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Cattaraugus, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

I like Tango because it overwinters for me with row cover protection. It makes a nice early spring or late fall salad mixed with spinach. It is the first lettuce I grow to bolt.
 




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