Lettuce

(Lactuca sativa) For a long time, we were single-mindedly obsessed with finding redder and redder lettuces for our salads. Now, we place just as high (if not higher) a value on a really striking green like Aussie Yellow. This beautiful chartreuse-colored lettuce grows enormous loose heads with blistered, crinkled leaves. And...

(Lactuca sativa) This is another selection from the USDA, donated to their collection in 1979 by the Agricultural Experiment Station in Davis, California. Miniature, dark green, upright plants envelop a blanched yellow core. Thick, crunchy, and sweet leaves form palm-sized heads, which are perfect quartered and served as a wedge...

(Lactuca sativa) Here's a newer-to-us mini red oakleaf from Europe, similar in growth to the much-loved "Oscarde" (dense wavy oakleaf heads) but even smaller and slower to bolt. Lovely burgundy leaves with emerald green hearts and oakleaf-meets-butterhead tenderness. 50 days. UO Packet: 1g (~800 seeds) [split] Growing Info SOWING: Sow indoors...

This lettuce is Outstanding. Everything you want in a Romaine and so much more. Beautiful deep bronze-burgundy heads are large at 10-12”, crispy but more tender than most Romaine, and very slow to bolt. Grown since the 18th century and going strong in the 21st. 65 days. AV Packet: 1g...

(Lactuca sativa) Goodness, this lettuce is a dazzling beauty. It comes on fast and full with an open growth habit and slightly elongated, savoyed leaves that are a soft green blushed with red darkening to purple near the tips. Lovely and quick for salad mix but also incredible as a large...

(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) We love this variety as a baby cutting lettuce. Unusually long and slender baby leaves bring a good mustard or chicory (Italian dandelion?) look to salad mixes without the more adventurous flavors. As a full-sized head, we found it somewhere between a deer tongue and romaine with a clean,...

(Lactuca sativa) A true mini volcano of a lettuce, Eruption displays Dark red tips over light green buttery-crunchy-romaine leaves, all wrapped around a pink magma core. Small “Latin” style heads, slightly larger than Little Gems, with an upright stature. This lettuce has been found to be resistant to multiple strains...

(Lactuca sativa) We were thrilled when we first saw this several years ago and remain so! Flashy Butter Oak is the first we’ve seen to combine the striking red speckling of the Forellenschluss types on an apple-green oakleaf frame. Beautiful dense, large heads with excellent texture and taste. An essential baby...

(Lactuca sativa) A selection from the venerable Austrian heirloom variety “Forellenschluss” for more uniform speckling. Flashy Trout is a beautiful green romaine with stunning splashes of wine-red speckles. As tender as romaine gets, the apple green speckled hearts rival the butterheads for summer salad sumptuousness (say that five times fast). The...

(Lactuca sativa) This very pretty green-leaf caught our eye at a neighbor’s farm years ago, and we are happy to share it with you. Somewhere between an oakleaf and a butterhead, it reminds us of a vibrant emerald green version of Oscarde. Compact and dense, it's a real head-turner.50 days....

(Lactuca sativa) We are always on the lookout for distinctive new additions to our salad mix. Goldrush has a super frilly and branched leaf structure resembling frisee, almost more than lettuce but without the bitterness. Chartreuse in color, it is great as a cutting lettuce and matures into a stunning,...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* (Lactuca sativa) This might be our favorite full size lettuce we grow here at Uprising and one that deserves a better look from market growers. Admires’ produces tremendous, blocky, dense green heads blushed with just the right amount of red to the tips of the leaves....

(Lactuca sativa) With a name like that, you know it’s got to be a Wild Garden Seed Lettuce! In this case, the name says it all. Rich, dark burgundy red plants with very deeply textured leaves, just the type of folds and ridges that hold onto dressings in a salad....

(Lactuca sativa) Now that’s a lot of salad in one head of lettuce! This swanky green oakleaf gets HUGE! Extremely uniform, great eating quality, and slow to bolt, this variety has won a spot in our garden for years to come. Be sure to give it plenty of space. 55 days....

(Lactuca sativa) A great arrow in our romaine quiver, Jericho was bred to excel in the heat of summer with excellent resistance to tip burn. Don’t laugh. It gets hot here sometimes (way more often these days, actually). No really! Remember that one time in 2009… Well, anyway, hot season...

(Lactuca sativa) Eric, from the Willy Wonka factory of lettuce breeding, Wild Garden Seed, upped our lettuce game at Uprising with his enthusiasm for the crop. Digging through the listings of the national GRIN germplasm database, he found several commercially bred castoffs that never saw the light of day or...

(Lactuca sativa) Along with its catchy name, this lettuce caught the attention of our market customers, who loved it for its unique rosette shape, long and pointy “deer tongue” type leaves, and nutty flavor. Glossy, deep green leaves with burgundy hues are a pleasure to see and eat. Big, heavy...

(Lactuca sativa) Alright. These are so cute it's ridiculous. Like kittens and puppies play-wrestling together… on the beach… with baby seals rubbing noses in the background. It is one of the few lettuces that seems to have become “branded” and referenced by name on menus at fancy restaurants. A mini,...

(Lactuca sativa) Beautiful red oakleaf lettuce. Reliably uniform and huge heads that resist bolting, have a pleasantly mild flavor, and fancy frilled oakleaf shape. One of our most impressive and dependable lettuces, it holds its color even in the heat of summer. 28 days baby, 65 days head. AV Packet: 1g...

(Lactuca sativa) Every year, this lettuce attracts more attention and comments than just about anything else we grow on the farm, and we grow a lot of unusual varieties. Hands down the reddest of red lettuces on the market, a deep burgundy from the tip of the leaf to the...

(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) One of our favorite red leaf’s for several years, Oscarde is a beautiful red densely packed oakleaf that reminds us quite a bit of brain coral with its round, wavy, tight heads. Somewhere in the middle of loose oakleaf and dense butterhead in texture and appearance. Lovely. 50 days....

(Lactuca sativa) That’s Parris Island, South Carolina, not Paris, France. Bred by the USDA and Clemson Ag Extension in 1952, Parris has stood the test of time as a classic, big, market-quality romaine. We’ve sold this to restaurants for Caesar salads, and to supermarkets by the case. Excellent texture, crunch,...

(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) 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...

(Lactuca sativa) Well, we can’t go around calling ourselves Uprising Seeds and not sell a lettuce called “Revolution” now can we? Revolution is a seriously flashy, darker red version of the classic Lollo Rosa type. Super frilly and compact, it is most often cut as a baby leaf in salad...

(Lactuca sativa) Vibrant red tips on green leaves, this looseleaf adds a wonderful shade of red to a salad. Another individual plant discovered in a field of “Prizehead” in the 1980s, Royal Red, is a former intellectual property-protected lettuce that now resides publicly in the USDA collection. Wavy, crumpled, thick...

(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...

*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...

(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...

The perfect ingredients for stir-fries, pizza toppings, quiches, hearty raw salads, and tossed into your mesclun or lettuce mixes. A colorful mix of Red Russian kale, Dazzling blue kale, Bok Choi, tatsoi, Ruby Streaks, Rainbow Chard and Mizuna. Can be cut as baby leaf for a tender addition, let to...

A mix of our favorite lettuces including butterhead, romaine, oakleaf, reds, bronze, greens, speckled, wavy, frilly...you name it.  A celebration of lettuce's many colors and forms. 50-55 days-ish. Packet: 1g [split] Growing Info SOWING: Sow indoors 2-4 weeks before your last frost. Seeds germinate best below 70F. Transplant out 3-4...

Similar to the salad mix our customers loved at the farmers market, this mix contains a diverse blend of red, green, and speckled lettuces, mild Asian mustards, arugula, red spinach, amaranth, and other specialty greens intended for cut-and-come-again baby leaf salad. For a festive flair, try an addition of edible...

This mix packs some heat, with some of our spicier greens added to the classic blend. Mixed red, green, and speckled lettuces, arugula, Wrinkled Crinkled Cress, and Ruby Streaks, amongst others. Not overwhelming by any means, but certainly friskier than the mild in its “cool” mustard heat. Like the above...