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(Lactuca sativa) This French beauty is one of our favorite green butterheads on the market. Its velvety apple-green leaves and large, sturdy heads are a thing of perfection. Wonderful buttery texture keeps the superlatives rolling on this variety! 50 days. AV Packet: 1g (~800 seeds) [split] Growing Info SOWING: Sow indoors...

(Lactuca sativa) Found as a sport in a large field of “Prizehead” in California in the 1980s, this excellent lettuce has dark red tips on a largely green butterhead, with a blanched yellow heart. The parent it descends from, Prizehead, is a loose leaf that dates back to 1873 and...

(Lactuca sativa) Bred from a cross between 'Eruption' (one of our very favorite lettuces), a looseleaf, and an iceberg, 'Queen of Hearts' delivers everything we love about 'Eruption' in a denser, more compact package. Probably best described as a mini-butter-romaine, its heads feature stunning saturated burgundy outer leaves that fade...

(Lactuca sativa) We originally never gave the French classic ‘Marvel of Four Seasons' much of a second thought. We have a tendency to focus our attention on the rare or the outliers, and Marvel felt boring in its “commonness”: found in practically every catalog, not extraordinary in color or size...

(Lactuca sativa) …and the livin’ is easy. We might lose some people here, but we are waving the flag for an iceberg lettuce comeback. Hating on icebergs has become totally cliché. Vegetable styrofoam, textured water…we’ve heard them all. Get over it, cool club! Seriously, I’m not talking about weeks-old cello-wrapped...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* (Lactuca sativa) The “Little Gem” of the butterheads, these compact 7” plants produce a miniature head about 4” across. Though this particular variety only dates back to the 1850s, during the 17th and 18th centuries, these types of lettuce were sometimes pickled in salt brine for...

(Lactuca sativa) Q: How do you get a foodie to eat iceberg lettuce? A: Give it a fancy French name! But seriously, this… ahem… “crisphead” is a real stunner with deeply serrated edges to the wrapper leaves giving the heads a regally ornate and frilled crown: truly the “Queen of...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom*(Lactuca sativa) A classic old Amish heirloom dating back to 1799. Medium-sized butterheads are flecked with burgundy speckles. Always a joy to eat for their tender, blanched hearts and striking appearance in the salad bowl. It seems to have developed a reputation as a quaint old fashioned...