LETTUCE – Blushed Butter Cos,  Lactuca sativa (55 days)  ORGANIC In the words of Frank Morton, “Very popular pink-blushed blend of butterhead and cos qualities. Leaves are dense, buttery, savoyed and folded, nicely proportioned to fit a salad plate, and easy to remove from the head without tearing or bruising. Highly rated for flavor by our customers and the Philomath High School Botany Class, which has conducted detailed trials on our lettuces every year since 1995. If teens like it, it’s sweet.” SRF LT20: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95 One Ounce (25,000 seeds) - $30.00...

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Lettuce, Buttercrunch (65 days) Latuca sativa A very bolt-tolerant green butter head with a dense blanched core that remains sweet through the heat of early summer.  Originally developed by George Raleigh, Cornell University, and an All-America Selection for 1963.  CDF.  LT56: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95; half ounce: $20 One ounce - $30...

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Lettuce, Carmona (55 days)  ORGANIC It must show that we really love our red butter lettuce varieties here at Siskiyou Seeds, because we have 5 different ones! Eating a fresh, tender, buttery, well blanched head right out of the field ranks very high on the gardener bliss spectrum. A red and green swirled butterhead classic that is truck farm worthy in its adaptable growth and dependability. Fairly bolt resistant so it can be grown in the heat of summer. HEIRLOOM. SRF LT52: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95 One Ounce (25,000 seeds) - $30.00...

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LETTUCE – Emerald Fan, Lactuca sativa (55 days) ORGANIC  Bright, shiny green leaves from a butterhead combined with the tall stature and heat tolerance of a romaine. Emerald Fan makes a salad or garnishes a sandwich. This lettuce was selected out of a mix of lettuce crosses from Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seeds in 2006. LKF, OSSI LT36: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95 1 oz - $28.00...

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Lettuce, Four Seasons (60 days)  ORGANIC 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 1185 book, The Vegetable Garden”, it clearly has stood the test of time on account of its tasty red and green well-wrapped, tender buttery heads. Simply gorgeous. HEIRLOOM. SSF       LT50: Packet -1 g  (~800 seeds) - $3.95...

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LETTUCE – Jack Ice (60 days) Lactuca sativa  ORGANIC 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’.” LT23: Packet (1g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95...

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LETTUCE – Kweik Butter ( 45 days) Lactuca sativa –The quickest heading butter type we’ve grown! Nice lime-green heads are very well suited to cold season crops or unheated winter greenhouse culture. Large, very resistant to downy mildew, tip-burn, and Sclerotinia stem rot.   We originally grew this for the Abundant Life Seed Foundation long ago. HBF. LT36: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95; One Ounce (25,000 seeds) - $25.00...

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Lettuce, Marin  (55 days)  ORGANIC    A nice, refined green head lettuce that achieves a large stature with its open whorl of slightly savoyed rumpled leaves.  A "Two Star" type.   A good market head lettuce that has been largely dropped by the commercial seed trade.  A cool season standard.  WTF LT8: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95 Ounce - $30...

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Lettuce, Mescher (60 days)   ORGANIC A quick growing green butter fringed with scarlet. 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. HEIRLOOM. SSF LT51: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95...

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LETTUCE – Olga, Lactuca sativa (50 days)  ORGANIC Another gem bred by Frank Morton, “She’s a big blonde-green beauty with broadly rumpled leaves holding a big blanched heart. Kind of soft for a romaine; a little butter in her background” SSF LT25: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95...

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Lettuce, Optima  (60 days)  ORGANIC   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.  SSF LT11: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95...

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Lettuce, Pablo Batavian (55 days)  ORGANIC 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. SSF LT41 - 1 g (~800 seeds) = $3.95 1 oz (~25,000 seeds) = $28.00...

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Lettuce, Pirat Red Butter (55 days)  ORGANIC A wonderfully beautiful old heirloom 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. Tasty too!  LT32: Packet (1g ~ 800 seeds) - $3.95...

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Lettuce, Quan Yin (60 days)  ORGANIC 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.  SSF LT2: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95 ounce - $28 ...

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Lettuce, Red Iceberg  (60 days)  ORGANIC Forget what you know about iceberg lettuce and picture crunching your teeth into the thick and juicy midribs of this French crisphead/Batavian lettuce. Forms a tightly wrapped, softball sized head surrounded by a satellite dish of reddish-green leaves. Very bolt resistant and doesn’t become bitter in summer heat. Delightful! SSF LT14: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95...

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LETTUCE , Reine de Glaces, Lactuca sativa (60days)  ORGANIC  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.” HEIRLOOM, SSF LT35: Packet (1 g ≈ 800 seeds) - $3.95...

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Lettuce, Sierra (55 days)  ORGANIC Sierra is a fantastic summer lettuce with possibly the best bolt resistance of any we have ever grown. It is a large Batavian, or French, crisphead type with a well-blanched crunchy central head that is somewhat akin to an iceberg, just with much better flavor. Does not fare well in really cold weather, as the thick juicy midribs are prone to freezing. SSF LT44 - 1 g (~800 seeds) = $3.95...

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