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Blushed Butter Oak  
Same parentage and color as ‘Blush Butter Cos’ but selected for oakish leaves that wrap a buttery heart. Also highly rated for flavor and cold hardiness by everyone that trials it. I love this stuff. pricing and more
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Deer Tongue
Often described as a a “bibb type”; buttery on the tongue with a crisp texture and mild taste. This is an heirloom favorite, named for its pointed leaves, but known for it’s unique crunch and great taste. pricing and more
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Divina
A big framed beautiful butterhead, emerald green, tight with a well-blanched heavy heart. Very slow to bolt. Complete resistance to downy mildew in our on-farm trials, and high resistance to Sclerotinia for a butter-type. ‘Divina’ would have disappeared from commercial production twelve years ago if Renee Shepherd hadn’t asked us to keep it alive for her seed racks. What a save! I sug... pricing and more
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Flashy Butter Gem
Latest of the ‘flashy’ red splashed series, this one a Little Gem-like butter-cos that forms a fat short-leafed football of a lettuce, splattered throughout by crimson. Perfect leaves for high-yield salad crop, or for dense baby heads. Great taste, texture, and color. pricing and more
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Flashy Butter Oak
Released first by our Fedco friends in 2005. We’ve been working toward this blend of ‘Flashy Troutback’ and ‘Emerald Oak’ ever since I laid eyes on the ingredients, circa 1999. This is the first of several variations on the “speckled oakleaf” theme that are in the works. This one combines flashy red splashes with emerald green oak leaves in a compact head. Texture is crisp and butter... pricing and more
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Flashy Lightning Butter-Oak
Stand Back!! This stuff is hot and in a hurry. A quick heading butter with compact dark green oak leaves, flashy-splashed with dark red, that becomes a beautiful pink in the big blanched heart. First flashes into a unique mini-head, then folds into a dense butter-heart before bolting. A unique blast of lettuce traits. Teen-rated very low on bitterness. pricing and more
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Garnet Butter Gem
Our good customer, Hiroshi Takikawa, market farmer from Los Olivos, CA, sent us seed from a favorite lettuce cross many years ago. This is our first selection from his gift, a compact garnet red butter lettuce with gem appeal. pricing and more
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Kweik
A quick-heading lime-green butter type lettuce, very well suited to cold season crops or unheated winter greenhouse culture. Large, very resistant to downy mildew, tip-burn, and Sclerotinia stem rot. Abundant Life Seed Foundation passed this gem to us for increase the spring before their fire. pricing and more
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Landis Winter
NEW FOR 2021! This cold hardy butterhead has medium green leaves with a soft texture and excellent flavor. Adapted to short-day growing periods, and may be September sown for midwinter harvest, or October planted for harvest in March and April. Some protection from the elements in winter will improve quality and endurance, but I’m told it will overwinter in the open field in eastern Pennsylvania where it orig... pricing and more
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Meriviglia d' Inverno
An Italian butter head especially suited to winter harvests from September-October plantings without bolting. Keep in mind, that's a Mediterranean winter, but a tunnel can create an Italian winter almost anywhere these days...sort of. This variety can be planted March through October, but shines in the cold short days. Name means "Winter Marvel." pricing and more
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Mescher
An heirloom of distinction, dated to the 1700s in Austria. A fast-hearting spring type, green with red-tinged leaves, and small very dense heads with perfect butter flavor. Sent to us as remnant seed by Oregon farmer Renee Oberdorf in 2007. pricing and more
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Optima
The darkest green butterhead on our list, big framed and thick leaved. Very resistant to downy mildew, bottom rot, and tip-burn in our disease trials. A workhorse standard for uniform green butter lettuce. pricing and more
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Pirat
A great heirloom butterhead standard, red tinged and well-folded leaves form a heavy, blanched head. Tighter than ‘Marvel of Four Seasons’ and more of a brick red. This was the best butterhead in our trials for resistance to downy mildew, Sclerotinia, bacterial head rots, and tip-burn. A beauty from the Alps that still retains high status among butter lettuces for flavor and box-filling produc... pricing and more
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Really Red Deer Tongue
If the traditional ‘Red Deer Tongue’ leaves you wanting more red, try this first release in a series that combines the heirloom ‘Green Deer Tongue’ with our ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’. Leaves are long, pointed, and dark red all over, with a contrasting white midrib. Hard to classify by type. Begins as a unique dark red cutting type, then makes a butter-cos heart. Probably best as a sprin... pricing and more
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Red-Earred Butterheart
Sounds like an embarrassed suitor in springtime, but here’s a new selection from the ‘Really Red Deer Tongue’ tribe, with dark red pointed leaves that are shorter, broader, more buttery and folded than RRDT. Like its parent, introduced through the Fedco catalog. pricing and more
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Ruby Vase
The pointed leaves are upright, forming vase-like heads of the darkest kind of red, many having rose pink hearts from our â??red to the heartâ?? breeding lines. Selected against tip burn. pricing and more
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Speckled Amish Butterhead
An old heirloom with a most unique pigment pattern: bright red speckles on a lime green buttery leaf. Heads are dense and buttery, with pink patterned hearts that look like variegated radicchio. A confirmed member of the Slow Food Ark of Taste. pricing and more
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Tom Thumb
One of the original mini lettuces, a true heirloom butterhead introduced to the US from England just after the Civil War. Medium green, very dense with creamy hearts, makes a perfect split-head salad. Fast maturing, can be densely spaced 5â??6â?? apart in early spring plantings for abundant first-to-market heads. Heat and bolt resistant if used as a summer lettuce. pricing and more
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Waldor
A brilliant green heading winter lettuce, September sown for continuous picking or full head harvest April through May. Winter lettuces of this type are far more comon in Europe than the US. Bred by Sativa Biodynamic Seed, Rheinau, Switzerland. pricing and more
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Wonder of Stuttgart
A green German butterhead, said to be dependable year-round with moderate winter protection. We have only grown it once so far, but are offering based on first impressions and testimonials. The stock seed for this was handed to me by a wonderful European couple at a conference last winter. I have lost the original packet with their names, but hope to recover this information for the next catalog. pricing and more
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Yugoslavian Red
A brick-red blushed butterhead heirloom, first introduced in the US by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange in 1987. Quick to mature, an early spring market leader. Inner leaves blanch to creamy yellow-white hearts with red flecking. pricing and more
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