Lettuce, Better Butter Blend (55 days) Latuca sativa This is a diverse mix of over 20 different favored red, green and speckled butter lettuce varieties gleaned from our 2022 butter lettuce variety trials.  Our goal was to find the most beautiful, productive, disease resistant types and this mix covers the entire bandwidth. Butter types are best grown as spring and/or fall varieties as their delicate flavor is not as resilient in summer heat. More info about  our lettuce trials can be found on our blog here: Lettuce Trials Packet: 1g (~400 seeds) ...

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LETTUCE – Blushed Butter Cos,  (55 days)   Lactuca s. In the words of breeder,  Frank Morton, “Very popular pink-blushed blend of butterhead and cos qualities. Leaves are dense, buttery, savoyed and folded, nicely proportioned to fit a salad plate, and easy to remove from the head without tearing or bruising. Highly rated for flavor by our customers and the Philomath High School Botany Class, which has conducted detailed trials on our lettuces every year since 1995. If teens like it, it’s sweet.” OSSI (Open Source Seed Initiative) Pledged Variety.  Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) One Ounce (25,000 seeds) ...

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Lettuce, Capitan (62 days) Lactuca sativa An adaptable butter type lettuce that does excellent in the field or greenhouse. Has a light loose lime colored butterhead that grows to be about 5oznand 6-7” across. Heat and cold tolerant and is resistant to lettuce mosaic virus. This Dutch variety was judged the best Boston-type in the 1983 Rodale Research Center trials. 1 g (~800 seeds) ...

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Lettuce, Carmona (55 days) Latuca sativa It must show that we really love our red butter lettuce varieties here at Siskiyou Seeds, because we have 5 different ones! Eating a fresh, tender, buttery, well blanched head right out of the field ranks very high on the gardener bliss spectrum. A red and green swirled butterhead classic that is truck farm worthy in its adaptable growth and dependability. Fairly bolt resistant so it can be grown in the heat of summer. HEIRLOOM. SRF Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) 1/2 Ounce (12,500 seeds)...

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LETTUCE – Emerald Fan, (55 days)  Lactuca sativa Bright, shiny green leaves from a butterhead combined with the tall stature and heat tolerance of a romaine. Emerald Fan makes a salad or garnishes a sandwich. This lettuce was selected out of a mix of lettuce crosses from Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seeds in 2006 and then refined by breeder Jonathan Spero. OSSI Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) 1 oz ...

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Lettuce, Flashy Butter Gem Bred by Frank Morton, who says about this variety, "Latest of the ‘flashy’ red splashed series, this one a Little Gem-like butter-cos that forms a fat short-leafed football of a lettuce, splattered throughout by crimson. Perfect leaves for high-yield salad crop, or for dense baby heads. Great taste, texture, and color."  OSSI (Open Source Seed Initiative) Pledged Variety. Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) 1/2 Ounce ...

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Lettuce, Four Seasons (60 days) Latuca sativa Also known by its French name, Merveille des Quatre Saisons, this is a fabulous butterhead variety that hails, as you may have guessed, from France. An heirloom that was listed in Vilmorin’s 1815 book, The Vegetable Garden”, it clearly has stood the test of time on account of its tasty red and green well-wrapped, large tender buttery heads. Simply gorgeous.     Packet -1 g  (~800 seeds) ...

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LETTUCE – Jack Ice (60 days) Lactuca sativa Bred by Frank Morton, A dark green crisp-leaf especially suited to salad mix, with extra fancy toothing of the leaf margins and an upright, open heading habit for easy harvest. A juicy sweet taste, good heft, and high resistance to downy mildew and tipburn make this a good base green for a mix. A find from our lettuce disease trials. Beautiful combo with ‘Cardinale’ and ‘Merlot’.” Packet (1g ≈ 800 seeds) ...

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LETTUCE – Kweik Butter ( 45 days) Lactuca sativa The quickest heading butter type we’ve grown! Nice lime-green heads are very well suited to cold season crops or unheated winter greenhouse culture. Large, very resistant to downy mildew, tip-burn, and Sclerotinia stem rot.   We originally grew this for the Abundant Life Seed Foundation long ago. Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) One Ounce (25,000 seeds) ...

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Lettuce, Marin  (55 days)   Latuca sativa  A nice, refined green head lettuce that achieves a large stature with its open whorl of slightly savoyed rumpled leaves.  A "Two Star" type.   A good market head lettuce that has been largely dropped by the commercial seed trade.  A cool season standard.   Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) Ounce ...

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Lettuce, Mescher (60 days)    Latuca sativa A quick growing green butter fringed with a pleasing blush. Originally from Austria it’s been in circulation for 300 years which may tell you something about how well it performs as a small headed spring variety. Forms a tightly blanched 4-6” central head. Moderate bolt and disease resistance. HEIRLOOM. SSF Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds)...

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LETTUCE, Nancy (50 days) Latuca sativa This is a beautiful, big, bold, butter lettuce with a well blanched central head, surrounded by pale green leaves.  This variety has fairly good disease resistance. Reliably makes a tight head.  Flavor is sweet, mild, crunchy and non-bitter. Like all butter types we have found that it is best to grow as either a spring or fall variety.  It has moderate bolt resistance. Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) Ounce...

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Lettuce, Optima  (60 days)   Latuca sativa A large, dark green butterhead with a succulent blanched heart. Very good disease resistance, which is helpful in butter as most others are fairly wimpy. Photo by Karen Morton. Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) 1oz...

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Lettuce, Pablo Batavian (55 days)  Latuca sativa One of our favorites for a delicious and strikingly beautiful reddish bronze blushed Batavian. Slow bolting variety that can produce well-blanched heads in the heat with many shades of green splashed with crimson and fringed leaf margins. Can grow quite large. Central head is marvelously sweet. Packet: 1 g (~800 seeds) 1 oz (~25,000 seeds) ...

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Lettuce, Pirat Red Butter (55 days)  Latuca sativa A wonderfully beautiful old heirloom pale red butterhead lettuce that is a red and green, well folded plant with a dense central head that is well blanched. Originally from the European Alps, it has great disease resistance, something that many other butter lettuces sorely lack. Good bolt resistance.  Tasty too! Packet (1g ~ 800 seeds) ...

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Lettuce, Quan Yin (60 days) Latuca sativa My favorite green head lettuce.  This Batavian type is a dense, large, sweet-flavored variety that holds up well in the heat and is so incredibly beautiful and nourishing that it was deserving of the name of a Chinese Goddess.  Does well as a fall lettuce too. Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) ounce ...

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Lettuce, Red Iceberg  (60 days) Latuca sativa Forget what you know about iceberg lettuce and picture crunching your teeth into the thick and juicy midribs of this French crisphead/Batavian lettuce. Forms a tightly wrapped, softball sized head surrounded by a satellite dish of reddish-green leaves. Very bolt resistant and doesn’t become bitter in summer heat. Delightful! Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds)...

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LETTUCE , Reine de Glaces,(60days)   Lactuca sativa We obtained the original seed from Frank Morton at Wild Garden Seeds who explains, “The ‘Queen of Ices’ has been around for about 2 centuries, and she’s a beauty of a crisphead, with very ornately toothed green wrapper leaves blanching a crunchy white heart. Sounds like a queen. The hearts are a nice base for any salad, and she makes a fancy crisp cutting lettuce for mixes at a juvenile stage. Highly rated for horizontal resistance to downy mildew in our trials.” Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) ...

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Lettuce, Sierra (55 days) Latuca sativa Sierra is a fantastic summer lettuce with possibly the best bolt resistance of any we have ever grown. It is a large Batavian, or French, crisphead type with a well-blanched crunchy central head that is somewhat akin to an iceberg, just with much better flavor. Does not fare well in really cold weather, as the thick juicy midribs are prone to freezing. SSF Packet: 1 g (~800 seeds) ...

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Lettuce, Yugoslavian Red (55 days) Latuca sativa From our butter lettuce trials this emerged near the top of the group for being the most beautiful and flavorful red butter lettuces. This charming heirloom has bright-green cupped leaves splashed with rosy-red it  makes quite an impression in both the field and the kitchen. Taste is superb, buttery and mild. Heads grow to 12" across.  Best grown as a spring and fall variety....

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