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, 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, 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, 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, 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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