Lettuce Seeds

Vegetable Seeds
Before modern lettuce ended up in salad bowls everywhere, it had a place as an aphrodisiac in pre-dynastic Egyptian ceremonies, cooked with eggs on the Roman dinner table, and in medieval herbals as a sedative and digestive. Now, it comes in a beautiful variety of forms, colors, and textures from smooth lime green leaves to red headings, to multicolored, smooth or crinkled leaves, with flavors ranging from a bracing bitterness to a soft buttery taste. While all lettuces can be harvested for loose leaf salad mix, romaine and butterhead varieties create folded heads for single head harvest.

Nutrients: vitamins K (high), A and folate. Companions: beets, brassicas, carrots, onions, radishes, garlic. Antagonists:  cabbage.

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Lettuce Seeds - Rouge d'Hiver, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. ORGANIC. Cool season romaine type with sweet, buttery texture. Semi-open heads with deep-red outer leaves and green-bronze tipped inner leaves. Direct seed or transplant into the garden...

Lettuce Seeds - Kagraner Sommer

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. A very special, tender and succulent butterhead-type lettuce that we fell in love with here at Sow True. Stayed sweeter for longer into the summer and maintained...

Lettuce Seeds - Green Oakleaf

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. Rightfully famous for over 242 years! Bright green, deeply lobed leaves are never bitter, even in the summertime heat. Direct seed or transplant into the garden in...

Lettuce Seeds - Key Lime, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa ORGANIC. HEIRLOOM – How can you resist such a delicious sounding name? We admit that’s what attracted us initially when we first read about this lettuce, but growing...

Lettuce Seeds - Speckled Amish Butterhead, ORGANIC

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. An old heirloom with a most unique pigment pattern of bright red speckles on lime green buttery leaves. Heads are dense with pink patterned hearts that look...

Lettuce Seeds - Merveille 4 Seasons

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM  The French do not name their lettuces lightly and this one is, as the name implies, marvelous! A true wonder that holds excellent flavor, even in the...

Lettuce Seeds - Black Seeded Simpson

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. An old dependable friend for many growers. Deeply savoyed, light green leaves arrive very early and tolerate a range of growing conditions. Slow to bolt. Direct seed...

Lettuce Seeds - Parris Island Romaine

Lactuca sativa HEIRLOOM. A well-rounded romaine variety from the coast of South Carolina. Very consistent and uniform production for heads or baby leaf. Crunchy and lightly savoyed leaves resist tipburn....