‘Diamond Head’ is a crisphead lettuce, generally ready for harvest 80 days after sowing. An excellently flavored variety with mild flavor and crisp texture. Heads are 6 inches across, and weigh 1.5 lbs. Medium green in color. Start from seed […]
Lactuca sativa ( Continuity Lettuce )
‘Continuity’ is a butterhead lettuce generally ready for harvest 55 days after sowing. This is one of the most widely grown lettuces in the world, with attractive look and taste. Bronze outer leaves protect a tight, light green 12 to […]
Lactuca sativa ( Cardinale Lettuce )
‘Cardinale’ is a French Crisp/Batavia Lettuce generally ready for harvest in 48 days. This is an excellent variety for the summer, as it grows well in heat. Plant grows into thick, dark, red leaves with an upright habit and little […]
Lactuca sativa ( Brunia Lettuce )
‘Brunia’ is an Oak-Leaf Lettuce generally ready for harvest 75 days after sowing. It is a French variety of Oak Leaf, whose leaves are their most brilliant red during cool weather. Very crisp leaves. Start from seed 4 to 6 […]
Lactuca sativa ( Brown Cos Lettuce )
‘Brown Cos’ is an heirloom variety with cool grey-green leaves tinged with red on fringes, veins, and stems. Well-grown heads measure 14 inches in diameter. In Southern states this variety can overwinter, but it is generally planted in the late […]
Lactuca sativa ( Boston Market Lettuce )
‘Boston Market’ is an heirloom variety, with white seed. A popular grocery lettuce. Start from seed 4 to 6 weeks before average last frost date. Sow seeds 1/4 inch deep in wide rows and thin to 8 to 12 inches […]
Lactuca sativa ( Black-Seeded Simpson Lettuce )
‘Black-Seeded Simpson’, also known as ‘First Early’, ‘Earliest Cutting’, and ‘Carter’s Long Stander’ is one of the most famous American lettuces, an heirloom introduced in the late 1800’s. It is difficult to keep this type true through seed saving. This […]
Lactuca sativa ( Big Boston Lettuce )
‘Big Boston’, also known as ‘Trocadero’, ‘Tate’s Forcing White’, and ‘Giant White Forcing’ is a white-seeded heirloom variety introduced in America in the late 1800’s. The lettuce produces medium-large heads, globular in shape. The leaves are light green with brown […]
Lactuca sativa ( All-Year-Round Lettuce )
‘All-Year-Round’, a white-seeded heirloom variety also known as ‘Hubbard’s Market’, ‘White Summer’, and ‘Top Notch’, is a butterhead or cabbaging lettuce with dark green, crinkled leaves whose edges are straight. This is an excellent variety to grow farther North. In […]
Lactuca sativa ( Aleppo Lettuce )
‘Aleppo’, also known as ‘Spotted Cos’ is an heirloom variety of lettuce dating back to the 17th century. It is a short romaine lettuce with bright green leaves which have a slightly floppy habit. The leaves are savoyed and speckled […]