Crisphead

Crisphead lettuce seed is a category that includes lettuces like Batavian and iceberg types. These lettuces are crunchy, juicy and usually form a head when mature. Crisp type lettuces are relatively tolerant of hot weather and slower to bolt than other lettuce types. Also known as crisp leaf, French Crisp and summer crisp lettuce

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  • Adaptive Seeds Summer Lettuce Mix (Organic)

    $4.35$68.00

    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.

  • Lettuce, Hanson Red (Organic)

    $4.35$62.00

    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…

  • Lettuce, Salade de Russie

    Lettuce, Salade de Russie (Organic)

    $4.35$30.65

    Lactuca sativa. Speckled Crisphead. 60 days. A large, crisphead type lettuce. Olive green with a nice bronze blush and covered in beautiful red speckles. In passing, it could be mistaken for a Castelfranco chicory but with close inspection it is all lettuce. Sweet crunchy flavor even in the heat of summer. Slow to bolt. Seems to…

  • Lettuce, Saragossa (Organic)

    $4.35$12.90

    Lactuca sativa. Green and Red Crisphead. 45-55 days. A brilliant green and red crisphead lettuce. Exceptional heat resistance similar to Batavian types and the flavor is sweet and crisp even in the middle of summer. The last few years we have been trialing summer lettuces and Saragossa is one of our favorites. Selected to excel…

  • Lettuce, Slogun (Organic)

    $4.35$64.00

    Lactuca sativa. Green and Red Crisphead. 60-90 days. Heads are green with bronze tips, upright in stature, size up quickly but then can sit in the field for weeks before bolting. Great for folks that like to have lettuce in the garden but don’t like to eat it all at once. Slogun will wait for…

  • Victoria Lettuce

    Lettuce, Victoria Batavian (Organic)

    $4.35$56.00

    Lactuca sativa. Green Crisphead. 45-55 days. A vibrant green, summer crisphead variety. There are so many names for this type of lettuce – summer crisp, crispleaf – and we prefer crisphead because they all make a nice crispy head. This is very true for Victoria Batavian. We spent several years trialing summer lettuce varieties and,…