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, 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 , 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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