Growing Guides

Green Leaf is a fast, frilly bright-green loose-leaf lettuce of the Grand Rapids or Black Seeded Simpson type, and it is about as easy as lettuce gets. It germinates quickly, grows fast, and is endlessly productive when picked leaf by...

Bibb is the gourmet butterhead prized by cooks, forming a small, loose head of soft, sweet, buttery leaves. It grows quickly, stays compact enough for containers and tight spaces, and rewards you with delicate leaves perfect for elegant salads and...

Romaine, also called cos, is the tall, upright lettuce behind every Caesar salad, with sturdy dark-green leaves and a sweet, crunchy central rib. It is one of the more forgiving heading lettuces, tolerating a little more warmth than iceberg and...

Iceberg is the crunchy crisphead everyone knows, forming dense, round, pale-green heads of crisp, watery, mild leaves. It is the fussiest lettuce to head up because it needs a long, steady stretch of cool weather, but the payoff is that...

Cimarron Red is a striking heirloom romaine with deep bronze-red leaves and a crisp, sweet crunch. Its color intensifies in cool weather and full sun, and it is a little quicker and more heat-tolerant than green romaine while keeping that...

Oakleaf Green is a tender loose-leaf lettuce with distinctive oak-shaped, lobed leaves and a mild, sweet flavor. It is slower to bolt than many lettuces and perfect for cut-and-come-again harvesting, so you can pick tender outer leaves for weeks from...

Buttercrunch is the beloved award-winning butterhead, forming a small, loose head of thick, smooth, buttery leaves with a sweet, mild flavor that never turns bitter when grown well. It is quick, forgiving, and a little more heat-tolerant than most butterheads,...