Lettuce seeds Continental and Curled Leaf Lettuce

Lettuce
(Lactuca sativa)
Baby Leaf & Romaine| Butterhead, Oak Leaf & Winter | Cos | Continental | Iceberg, Looseleaf | Mixtures & Collections | Lettuce Index

Start sowing early spring and successional sowings until mid summer. Sow as thinly as possible in rows 30cm apart, thin out to 20-30cm apart. Earlier sowings can be made from early January under glass. Pick leaves young for baby salad leaf. Salad leaf mixtures from supermarkets are expensive, pick your own from the garden and have fresh salad leaves, choose from the large selection below of Baby leaf, Cos, Continental leaf, Iceberg, Oak leaf. Add to this watercress, rocket, chevril, coriander, or chives for an excellent leaf salad.
Lettuce Seeds per gram 700-1,000

Lettuce Bionda A Foglia Liscia
Bionda A Foglia Liscia is an early cut and come again variety from Italy, produces tender, small, smooth leaves that look a lot like Lambs Tongue. It is quick to grow and is best sown little and often from march to October for harvesting April to November (green variety).
£0.89 Av 1,200 seeds

Lettuce Biscia Rossa
Early Italian variety, Biscia Rossa means Red Snake, ruffled leaves are green below the red tips, rosette shaped heads. It is a rustic variety an old fashioned lettuce with good flavour and an open red head. Best sown February to April and July to August.

£0.89 Av 1,000 seeds

Lettuce Catalogna Lingua Di Canarino
Lingua di Canarino means 'Canary's Tongue' and the lettuce is unusual in that it forms dark green crisp tender heads but the leaves are oak leaf around the edges rather than being smooth. Similar in form to a lollo lettuce, crisp with a good flavour. Sow February to October.

£0.89 Av 1,000 seeds

Lettuce Radichetta Barba Di Frate
Also know as Barba Dei Frati. Upright semi open variety producing dark green long serrated leaves which are ideal in salads or can be cooked like radicchio, roasted or pan fried with olive oil. Cut and come again variety. Sow February to October.
£0.79 Av 1000 seeds

Lettuce Rossa Ricciolina Taglio
Vibrant rustic red early cut and come again variety with an open leaved erect habit. Successional sowings for continual harvest of leaves, the colour intensifies as the weather gets colder. Slow to bolt sow from February indoors and outdoors when weather has warmed up to September.

£0.79 Av 1,200 seeds

Lettuce Bis di lattuga Mixed
A mix of red and green cut and come again Italian lettuce. Ideal for containers pots and outside. Sow late March to September.

£0.89 Av 1,200 seeds

Lettuce Matador
Continental
A triple red Lollo Rossa variety, ideal for growing both outdoor or under glass during spring, summer and autumn. Deeply cut intense red leaves. Good bolting tolerance. Professional grade treated seed.

£1.35 Av 30 split pills

Lettuce Natividad seeds

Lettuce Natividad
continental Baby Leaf
Dark red curled leaves.
Very similar to Dark Lollo Rossa, from which it was selected. Natividad has the added advantage of being mosaic tested. For baby leaf and growing full-size for garnish leaves.
30 day baby leaf, 53 days to maturity

£1.65 Av 200 seeds

Lettuce Solmar
Continental
One of the darkest Lollo Rossa types currently available. Performs well under difficult growing conditions. Suitable for cropping April to October. For indoor and outdoor planting. Resistant to green lettuce leaf aphid

£2.15 Av 50 split pills

Lettuce Benmore
Continental
Lollo Verde variety, an attractive small green lettuce with finely serrated leaves. Uniform plants with good mildew resistance.
1 gram approx 950 seeds.

£1.25 Av 1 gram pkt

Lettuce Lollo Rossa

Lettuce Lollo Rossa
Continental
An Italian lettuce for cropping throughout the season. The indented leaves are frilly and heavily tinged red, with good holding ability. An excellent and interesting addition to the salad bowl with their frilled leaves. RHS Award of Garden Merit

£1.25 Av 400 seeds

Lettuce Lollo Rossa

Lettuce Lollo Rossa Organic Sourced
Continental
An Italian lettuce for cropping throughout the season. The indented leaves are frilly and heavily tinged red, with good holding ability. An excellent and interesting addition to the salad bowl with their frilled leaves.

£1.35 Av 400 seeds

Lettuce Red Sails seeds

Lettuce Red Sails
Continental Baby Leaf
A loose-leaf type, attractive very strong red colour on the outer fringed edges of the leaves, nicely compact pants with vigorous growth.
29 day baby leaf, 55 days to maturity

£1.20 Av 375 seeds

Add watercress to baby lettuce leaf for an interesting salad, sow separate in a damp part of the garden.

Watercress Hardy perennial
Medicinal and culinary herb.
Rich in vitamin A, C, and D. Watercress has a spicy taste the leaves are added to salads. Can be cultivated in the garden or in pots or punnets indoors all year round, must be kept very moist, pots or punnets can be stood in water, the water being changed daily. Outdoors broadcast sow spring when ground has warmed up onto shady moist soil, keep moist. Watercress is an excellent addition to mixed salad leaf for the salad bowl. Harvest June through to winter if crop is protected. Popular Micro Greens.
£1.10 Av 1,000 seeds