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Lactuca sativa. 55 days. For those of you who would rather grow head lettuce than baby salad mix, this mix is for you. Includes nothing but butterhead varieties. Colors range from light green to dark red. All will make good, dense heads suitable for salads, sandwiches, or use as lettuce wraps. Can also be cultivated…
Lactuca sativa. 28 days. Seasonal lettuce mixes are a great way to achieve culinary and growing success. This mix is best sown in spring (March-April) and autumn (September-October), and includes varieties that have shown excellence in our spring and fall lettuce trials. All varieties will germinate in diverse soil conditions and are cool weather tolerant….
Lactuca sativa. 28 days. Features varieties that have performed well in our hot weather lettuce trials. Includes crisphead, romaine, oak leaf, and butterhead varieties, making this mix work well for head lettuce or cut-and-come-again salad mix production. We recommend this mix for summer sowings in the Pacific Northwest.
Lactuca sativa. Green Romaine. 60 days. With its dense, bright green heads, Augustus is a classic big green romaine lettuce through and through. Plants are nice and tall and produce lots of crisp and tasty leaves, perfect for piling onto sandwiches. Legend has it the Roman Emperor Augustus was gravely ill and he was put…
Lactuca sativa. Green Butterhead. 55 days. Small, dark green butterhead lettuce that is good for summer production because it is more heat resistant than most. A lot like the larger framed market farm standard, Optima, with nice thick leaves that hold up well in the market booth. Baja lettuce is a darker green color and…
Lactuca sativa. Green Red. 25 days baby; 50 full. Curly, red-tipped, green oak leaf lettuce produces compact, denser heads than many other oak leaf varieties, making it ideal for market displays. Quick and easy to chop or tear into a delicious salad with the perfect loft. Suitable for baby leaf production. Sweet and aromatic flavor…
Lactuca sativa. Green Butterhead. 50 days. Light-green butterhead, bred for greenhouse and cold frame forcing in winter and spring. Quick to size up in cold conditions, we have planted it outdoors under row cover in spring and in fall with great results. Excellent variety sourced from the German biodynamic seed company, Bingenheimer Saatgut. They recommend…
Lactuca sativa. Bronze Romaine. 30 days baby; 55 full. Similar to Bunyards Matchless with more compact growth, slightly frilled leaf margins and dark green, crunchy leaves with bronze tips. Excellent sweet flavor. Plant breeder and author, Carol Deppe, says it has the best flavor of any lettuce she’s ever tasted. (!!!) Very cold hardy, needing…
Lactuca sativa. Red Blushed Butterhead. 60 days. An apple green butterhead tinged with a red-pink blush. Early, big, heavy heads grow well in difficult conditions and are heat resistant. An old variety known in Europe since around 1907. Most recently preserved from extinction by the seed saving groups Kokopelli in France, and Pro Specie Rara…
Lactuca sativa. Bronze Romaine. 30 days baby; 60 full. Large, open heads are dark green with some bronze tint. Similar to George Richardson, Brown Goldring, and other Bath Cos types. Crunchy with distinctive nutty, sweet delicious flavor. This English heirloom is both cold and heat tolerant. Scored higher overall than most other lettuces for both…
Lactuca sativa. Red Oak Leaf. 30 days baby; 55 full. A fantastic and strange oak leaf lettuce, like some kind of traveling circus. Lime greens and pinks swirled together on leaves pointing in all directions come together to make Carnival very unique. Narrow leaves are similar to Canary Tongue but with a nice red blush….
Lactuca sativa. Red Oak Leaf. 30 days baby; 55 full. An excellent red oak leaf and great for salad mix. Vigorous and slow to bolt with good, sweet flavor, especially for a red lettuce. Fairly resistant to downy mildew. Dark-red pigmented anthocyanins fight the diseases of cold, wet weather and provide good color contrast in…
Lactuca sativa. Green Butterhead. 55 days. Large, light-green butterhead that produces high quality heads with a delicate buttery texture and sweet, nutty taste. Bred for spring or summer production with good bolt resistance. This excellent variety outperformed every other lettuce we planted in our fall trial of 20 varieties. European commercial variety dropped from the…
Lactuca sativa. Bronze Romaine. 30 days baby; 60 full. The crunchy, dark-green leaves of D’Hiver de Sainte Marthe lettuce are beautifully tinged with bronze. A cold tolerant fall and winter romaine that is fairly slow to bolt, sweet and delicious. Similar to Bath Cos type lettuces such as Brown Goldring and Bunyards Matchless, but with a…
Lactuca sativa. Red Leaf. 30 days baby; 60 full. Massive heads with deer tongue shaped leaves. Green leaves have lots of red tones and crunchy midribs. When harvested young, they resemble Red Deer Tongue but with better color. Very slow to bolt, heat tolerant and always good flavor. The largest head of lettuce we have…
Lactuca sativa. Speckled Romaine. 30 days baby; 50 full. We expected a perfect, sweet Little Gem type lettuce with cool red speckles and buttery texture. Flashy Butter Gem lettuce has all of that and more! We waited a week after Little Gem size but they didn’t bolt, just got bigger and more colorful. Versatile since…
Lactuca sativa. Green Oak Leaf. 30 days baby; 55 full. Bright green oak leaf lettuce has the crisp texture of a romaine. The surprising sweet crunch made us think about dividing the oak leaf lettuce category into butter oaks and crisp oaks, but that is another conversation. The dense heads resist bolting in the field,…
Lactuca sativa. Green Butterhead. 55 days. Focus is a solid green butterhead with slightly thicker than average leaves which deliciously do not melt in your mouth like so many other butterheads, but rather crunch slightly. Still pleasingly tender, just not overly so. Leaves are sweet and hold up well for market. More substantial leaves make it…
Lactuca sativa. Green Oak Leaf. 25 days baby; 60 full. Produces large, dense heads of deeply serrated oak leaves great for cut-and-come-again salads. Fristina is so deeply cut it almost looks like a frisĂ©e endive. When the heads are medium sized, they can be cut about an inch above the base, the handful of lettuce…
Lactuca sativa. Green Oak Leaf. 30 days baby; 55 full. Very reliable, compact green oak leaf, perfect for heads or salad mix. This was a commercial standard until recently, when it was replaced by patented varieties that are almost identical. If you want a solid, open-source green oak leaf, this is for you. Not only…
Lactuca sativa. Red Leaf. 30 days baby; 55 full. A red loose leaf type lettuce with green contrast inside the head. Does not quickly grow oversized as with some red leaf lettuces. Crunchy yet tender texture makes it better than some of the recent lettuces released by the big seed companies with their tough rubberiness….
Lactuca sativa. Bronze Romaine. 30 days baby; 65 full. This heritage lettuce from the United Kingdom is similar in flavor profile to other bronze romaines, which as a group are noticeably sweeter than other lettuce types. George Richardson has special bragging rights, though – in the 2009 evaluations done by Garden Organic / Heritage Seed…
Lactuca sativa. Green Romaine. 30 days baby; 60 full. A solid, medium-sized, bright green romaine lettuce. Forms crunchy leaves and tall heads. Many of the heads will form multiple hearts. We thought at first that we should select away from this trait, however we found it to be a fantastic trait for romaine heart production…
Lactuca sativa. Green and Red Crisphead. 65 days. This Batavian type is one of our best lettuces for summer production. Dense heads with thick, dark green leaves and red tips. Delightfully crunchy and resists tip-burn. Very slow to bolt. Not suited to winter production. This lettuce comes to us from a Seed Savers Exchange member…
Lactuca sativa. Red Butterhead. 60 days. Winter hardy, light-red butterhead originating in Hungary. The 12” green heads are splashed with red-pink. Very tender and delicious. Quick to bolt in the heat but perfect for spring and fall rotations. When growing for market, we liked to plant a late rotation in September to produce dense, 6”…
Lactuca sativa. Red Leaf. 30 days baby; 50 full. Unconventional red leaf lettuce that is very red and very rumpled. Leaf texture is similar to Bloomsdale spinach, but deep dark-red and lettucey. Great for salad mix and head lettuce. Very hardy, partly due to its red color. The antioxidant anthocyanin causes the red color and…
Lactuca sativa. Green Romaine. 30 days baby; 60 full. Very big, light green romaine heads. Good heat and cold tolerance with a crunchy sweet flavor. It performs excellently and is a variety we’ve heard many farmers swear by. We swear by it too! This was our romaine of choice when growing for market, and our…
Lactuca sativa. Mini Green Romaine. 50 days. A selection of Little Gem, this variety makes miniature heads of green romaine, and is possibly the best for sweet flavor. Because they are so compact, you can plant at twice the density of standard head lettuce, thus yielding more heads per bed foot. Also a great variety…
Lactuca sativa. Red Butterhead. 50 days. A medium-sized, dark-red butterhead that stands out as one of our best varieties. Easy to grow and tolerant of summer heat – it was slow to bolt in our summer lettuce trial which included over 60 varieties. Great color, overall appearance and succulent texture. A reliable variety for gardens…
Lactuca sativa. Red Oak Leaf. 30 days baby; 55 full. Red and green semi-oak leaf heads have some arrowhead/canary tongue shape. The sweet juicy flavor, cold and heat tolerance, as well as the large and vigorous plants, all come together to make this one a favorite. Great for salad mix and for unique full-sized heads….
Lactuca sativa. Green Butterhead. 50 days. Beautiful, light-green butterhead that was popular in the 1950s in English gardens and farms. Quick to produce a medium-sized head. Cold and damp weather tolerant and resists bolting until the summer gets hot. Originally sold by Finney’s of Northumberland, England, before 1950. Given to The Seed Ambassadors Project by the…
Lactuca sativa. Red Oak Leaf. 30 days baby; 55 full. The red oakleaf lettuce that really got the organic salad mix game going! Oscarde Lettuce has the great combination of dark cherry-red outer leaves with ultra fine red-brown dappling on inner leaf areas, becoming green at the heart. This makes Oscarde look good even when…
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