Lettuce

All seeds are sustainably grown & chemical free.

Mixes

Hardy Lettuce Mix – Cold hardy cutting mix. Ideal for spring & fall planting. Eye catching, tasty& nutritious. 300 seeds per packet.

Summer Lettuce Mix – Heat-tolerant mix of tasty varieties to enjoy all summer long. 300 seeds per packet.

Leaf/Loose Head

Cold – for spring and fall

Antares Leaf Lettuce – 48 days. Showstopper! Shimmery pink and bronze oakleaf grows vigorously to magnificent size. Extra frilly finely cut frilly bright leaves are colourful and tender, never bitter even in early July. 300 seeds per packet.

Bakito – 55 days. Tall leaf lettuce with oval purple/green leaves that have a slight tint of bronze. Holds sweet, rich flavour a long time. Great cut-and-come-again variety.

Hyper Red Rumpled Waved  – 50 days. Beautiful deep red ruffled loose head lettuce with good flavour & texture.  Good cold tolerance, holding into July before succumbing to heat. 300 seeds per packet.

Salad Bowl  – 60 days Gorgeous soft frilly deeply cut oakleaf shape with excellent flavour form into large, lime-green rosettes which resist bolting for a long time into summer & no bitterness. Rapid cool-weather growth makes it a prime candidate for spring cold frame growing.  BEST!!               

Tango –  45 days. A frilly green standard in salad and mesclun mixes, adding loft and interesting texture. Could be called the endive of lettuces for its deeply cut pointed leaves.  Great for market, overwintering + cool weather.  Slow to bolt under short day & cool weather conditions. Bolts in summer, but great for seed. 300 seeds per packet.

All-season

1) Australian Yellow  – 54 days. Fast growing, bright coloured & great tasting. Super heat tolerant & slowest bolting lettuce ever! Unique yellow-green puckered leaves with great holding power. Glossy yellow in the early stages, seedlings become more green as they mature, with the crinkly quality of a spinach & a sweet taste.    

Black Seeded Simpson – 28 baby, 45 days head. Earliest leaf lettuce with good flavour, quickly maturing into frilly, green loose heads that are crisp & tender. Introduced in 1850, this favorite looseleaf lettuce has sweet, large, light- green, crumpled leaves. Inner leaves blanch almost white. Slow-bolting, never bitter. Tolerates cold, heat & sun, making it a good choice for planting all summer long.

New Red Fire  – 45 -50 days. The ruffled red leaves are encompassed by a green base to form a compact, beautiful full sized head that is tender, crisp & sweet keeping its colour all season. Holds up well in hot weather.

Buttercos

Winter Density –  28 days baby, 60 days. French heirloom from 19th C. Don’t let the name fool you, this is an all-season lettuce…heat & frost resistant but won’t germinate if sown in the heat, so start in trays. Thick tender dark green leaves make superb eating. Not sure if it is a bibb or a romaine? Starts out looking like a bibb then wrapper leaves form folding tightly, forming a head like a romaine when mature. Combines the substance of a romaine with the tender succulence of bibb. 300 seeds per packet.

Butterhead

Cold (For Spring and Fall)

Italian Red Perella – 50 days.Attractive loose leaf butterheadwith sweet green leaves tinged with dark ruby bronze. Very tasty! Readily self sows & new plants emerge very early.

Kweik – 50 days. Easy & fast growing beautiful lime green heads suited to cool seasons & unheated greenhouses. Holds well. 300 seeds per packet.

North Pole – 51 days.  Extremely cold-hardy elegant lime-green 6-8” buttery heads, sweet & tasty.  Overwinters well in the greenhouse & resumes vigorous growth as days grow longer, tolerating spring frosts. Turns bitter in the heat. 

Winter Marvel – 52 days. This old European variety is our farm favourite! Large fancy light green butterhead recommended for fall production and overwintering. Grows rapidly, but bolts easily in heat…so we let it go to seed, save the seed, plus it self seeds each year for early lettuce in the greenhouse and outside. A real gem! 300 seeds per packet.

All Season Butterhead

Divina – 60 – 70 days. A big framed beautiful French butterhead, emerald-green, crisp & mild. Pick slightly savoyed loose outer leaves before head is tightly folded with a well-blanched heart. All season lettuce, very slow to bolt, resistant to tip-burn in hot weather. Good downy mildew resistance.

Romaine

Cold (for spring & fall)

Mayan Jaguar – 51 days. Fierce colors & snarly crunch. This (Frank Morton) beauty has mottled maroon spots on green ruffled leaves, not one the same as another. Great flavour, sweet juicy veins, blushed pink hearts and that great romaine crunch. Cold hardy, so great for spring salad or mesclun, not good in heat. 300 seeds per packet.

Olga – 65 days. Elegant lime-green glossy, cup-shaped slightly fringed leaves with big hearts. Very sweet, crisp and nutty with a buttery hint. Can stand up to considerable heat before it reluctantly bolts.in August. I would really consider it an ‘all season’ variety!

All-Season Romaine

Sweet Valentine – 55 days. A real sweetheart of a lettuce, Valentine combines magnificent beauty with mild sweet taste. Beginning as a large spreading bronzed butterhead with rounded veined leaves, it matures into a romaine shape. Slow to bolt even in hot dry conditions. Flavour is more delicate, soothing and less bitter before it assumes romaine configuration. The extremely deep-red leaves are slightly smaller than other cos varieties.

Mini Romaine

All Season

Island Gems – 55-65 days. Frank Morton’s little gems. Gorgeous miniatures of every shape & colour.  Select and grow out your new favourite varieties. 300 seeds per packet.