Australia Leaf lettuce in Australia

kej4hj · Sep 23, 2012

Hi all. I've been shopping around for lettuce for a long time but i have not found one called "leaf lettuce".
I googled up some images and it looks very similar to two that i have found so far.

Green oak lettuce

Green hydro lettuce

Are these the same as leaf lettuce? Does anyone know the differences?
I've asked the people who work there and they have no clue :sad:

Thank you!

deardulcie · Sep 23, 2012

This is what we call "red leaf lettude." Your hydro lettuce looks like butter lettuce.

Rhinos_mom · Sep 23, 2012

I found this site: Green Harvest - Organic Seeds - Leek to Luffa
if you wanted to grow your own, the seeds are under "leaf lettuce types" there's red and green there...

I believe Green Leaf and Red Leaf lettuces are types of "Loose Leaf" lettuces? And both of those you can feed to your little pigger.

Sorry i can't be of much help

Rhinos_mom · Sep 23, 2012

Oh here's a green leaf picture in addition to the Red leaf one that deardulcie provided you with:

Nix16 · Sep 23, 2012

I buy the houstons mesculun mix from Woolworths which looks like the pic of that red lead lettuce, I believe the package says red and green coral lettuce. Hope that helps

kej4hj · Sep 23, 2012

Nix16 said:
I buy the houstons mesculun mix from Woolworths which looks like the pic of that red lead lettuce, I believe the package says red and green coral lettuce. Hope that helps

Wow thank you very much! Will have a look today.

kej4hj · Sep 24, 2012

I had a look today and found red and green coral lettuce.

Would this be leaf lettuce? I asked a member of the store again today and they said they've never heard of leaf lettuce.
Does this look like leaf lettuce to you?

Nix16 · Sep 24, 2012

Yeah that's the stuff I give mine, I thinks it's the same, I've not had any issues with it anyway.

RodentCuddles · Sep 24, 2012

I live in NZ, I haven't heard of the leaf lettuce ever so just buy the ones you brought.

stray hares · Sep 24, 2012

Hello, fellow Australian! All those kinds of lettuce that you posted are fine to feed to guinea pigs. Hydro lettuce refers to hydroponic, which is a growing technique. Cos lettuce is the same as romaine lettuce. Avoid iceberg lettuce.

Nix16 · Sep 24, 2012

Oh thanks for that, I didn't know cos was romaine, somethings get list in translation. Maybe we need to make an Australian translation thread!

Digital_Dad · Sep 24, 2012

red and green coral lettuce

is what we call "Green Leaf" and "Red Leaf" lettuce.

deardulcie · Sep 24, 2012

Looks like leaf lettuce to me!

bpatters · Sep 24, 2012

Leaf lettuce is any kind of lettuce that doesn't form into a head, like iceberg does. Google is your friend, people -- you can learn all sorts of things there.

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