Lettuce and Arugula

Lettuce

Culture: By choosing the right kind of seed, we can eat lettuce year round. Can be direct seeded, for a cut lettuce when 3-4" big, or set out as transplants when 3-4 weeks old. Lots of water will ensure your lettuces make it through the heat of the summer, and remain tender. 250 seeds minimum.

• Amish Deer Tongue
  Amish variety valued for its ruggedness and heavy production. Thick compact plant, great for a cut-and come-again lettuce. Sharply triangular green leaves with straight edges. Unique growth habit. Thin mid-rib, good texture. Pleasant, sharp flavor. Loose-leaf, 45-55 days.



• Bronze Arrowhead
  Awarded the bronze medal at the 1947 All-American Selections. Introduced as Bronze Beauty by Germania Seed & Plant Co. Hailed as "the finest, most colorful and most delicious leaf letter for the home garden." Our favorite oakleaf-type lettuce, slow to bolt. Loose-leaf, 40-50 days. This is my favourite lettuce.



• Bunte Forellenschuss
  The butterhead companion to the Forellenschluss romaine. "Bunte" means "colorful" in German. Sweet apple-green leaves splashed with maroon, forms a loose 8-10" head. Butterhead, 40-55 days.



• Red Salad Bowl
  Ha! Older than me! Introduced to gardeners in 1955, this is a lovely lettuce to include in your salad mixes. Decorative upright plants, beautiful deep lobed bronze-red leaves are crisp and delicious. I've grown it for years and years and it always is exceptional, slow to bolt. Loose-leaf. 55 days.



• Seed Savers Exchange Lettuce Mixture
  Due to numerous requests over the years from Seed Savers Exchange customers, they have put together a mixture of cutting lettuces containing equal amounts of the following eight varieties: Amish Deer Tongue, Australian Yellowleaf, Bronze Arrowhead, Forellenschuss, Lollo Rossa, Pablo, Red Velvet and Reine des Glaces. Packet 250 seeds. This is a very popular mix.



• Yugoslavian Red
  Red-tinged leaves form loose heads that can measure up to 12" across. Cutting the head in half exposes solid green interior leaves and an almost white center. Excellent mild flavor, one of Seed Savers Exchange's most popular lettuces. Butterhead, 55 days. Gorgeous.

Arugula

Culture: Arugula can be planted year round, but does best in cool conditions. Very susceptible to flea beetles who make a mess of it by chewing holes in it. Will easily overwinter with protection. Easy grower, plant in rows, a foot apart, or simply scatter seed and cover very lightly with soil. Packets contain a minimum of 500 seeds.

• Rocket
  This is the most commonly known arugula, with a stronger "personality" than some of the newer types. Very peppery tasting, winter hardy and vigorous. A staple ingredient of mesclun mixes when small and when larger excellent for cooking in your favourite way. An excellent cold weather crop. 500 seeds minimum.



• Sylvetta
  A wild variety, which is smaller and slower to bolt than other arugula varieties, not quite as pungent, deeply serrated leaves. Overwinters beautifullly in the hoop house. 500 seeds.