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Originating in the United States, Buttercrunch Bibb lettuce is a head lettuce variety prized for its tender texture and thick, slightly crisp leaves, offering a delicate crunch. Valued for its moderate heat resistance and its ability to form a firm yet supple head, it embodies the perfect balance between sweetness and freshness, ideal for refined salads.
In the garden, Buttercrunch Bibb reveals its hardiness by adapting well to longer, warmer seasons. Its compact shape makes it a valuable ally in organic gardens, where it occupies a prominent place in crop rotations and blends harmoniously with other leafy vegetables. This lettuce is a generous companion, both productive and delicious, appealing to novice and experienced gardeners alike.
Originally from Europe, the Redina leaf lettuce has become a staple in vegetable gardens thanks to its vigor and beautiful purple color, which enhances salads. This variety of leaf lettuce is characterized by its tender, serrated leaves, whose deep red hue adds an aesthetic and flavorful touch to both the garden and the plate.
In the garden, Redina stands out for its rapid growth and slightly spreading habit, allowing it to quickly form a colorful carpet. Its relative hardiness in the face of climatic variations makes it an ideal companion for the cooler seasons of early spring or autumn. It adds diversity to a productive garden, bringing freshness and lightness to the table.
Native to North America, Parris Island Cos romaine lettuce is known for its hardiness and its ability to add crispness and freshness to salads. This variety has become a staple in organic vegetable gardens thanks to its majestic appearance and dense foliage, offering excellent resilience to the vagaries of the climate.
In the garden, it stands out with its upright habit and elongated, light green leaves with pronounced veins, promising a firm texture and a mild, slightly sweet flavor. Versatile and prolific, it integrates harmoniously into a vegetable garden where it adds a touch of verticality and a constant source of flavor.
Mescher head lettuce is a traditional French variety, prized in vegetable gardens for its mild flavor and relative resistance to adverse weather conditions. Originating from the Mescher region, near the Atlantic coast, it is distinguished by its well-formed, dense, and firm head, offering a crisp texture and a delicately sweet taste.
In the garden, Mescher is a faithful companion to summer and autumn crops. Its ability to form a compact head makes it easy to harvest and store, while its mild flavor makes it a preferred ingredient for fresh and composed salads. With its upright habit and abundant foliage, it adds a beautiful touch of greenery to the vegetable garden and contributes to soil fertility through its rapid growth cycle.
Drawn from a diverse selection of several types of head lettuce, this colorful composition celebrates the natural diversity of textures and hues. From tender green to deep red, each plant becomes a visual accent in the garden space, enriching neighboring crops with its calming presence.
In the garden, the Colorful Mix is a reliable choice. Its compact habit and well-formed heads make it an ideal variety for sunny spots, dense flowerbeds, or container gardening. Thanks to its varying maturity dates, it offers a staggered harvest, combining daily enjoyment with a respectful rhythm. If you love ultra-crisp lettuces, this mix will become your go-to. With their compact, protected hearts, head lettuces keep longer than leafy varieties, allowing you to enjoy their freshness for several days while reducing waste. Resilient and generous, this lettuce thrives in welcoming, slightly moist soil, revealing its full potential in a garden that is rooted and in harmony with a living garden.
Native to Europe, the Dark Lollo Rossa leaf lettuce is prized for its dense, finely curled leaves and intense purplish-red color, adding a touch of sophistication to vegetable gardens and salads. Its light, crisp texture makes it a favorite among those who enjoy varied and visually appealing salads.
In the garden, it proves generous and easy to grow, perfect for spreading out harvests throughout the season. Its deep color is also eye-catching and enhances plant arrangements. This variety is an ideal ally for healthy and bountiful cultivation that respects biodiversity.
Originating from European peasant lines, this remarkable variety is rooted in a tradition of subsistence farming where taste, hardiness, and beauty are one. With its tightly packed 25 cm head, it combines dark red, almost black foliage in the sun with a vibrant green heart, offering a striking visual contrast.
In the ever-changing garden, it offers a reassuring, constant, and generous presence. Resistant to bolting and tolerant of heat, it adapts well to the rhythm of the seasons and summer harvests. Easy to integrate into a nutrient-rich area or a quiet corner of the vegetable garden, it embodies attentive and deeply rooted cultivation. Its dense and colorful foliage contributes to the diversity of textures and hues within mixed plantings.
Red Oak Leaf Lettuce, native to Europe and highly prized in organic vegetable gardens, is admired for its finely cut leaves in deep purple hues. A symbol of freshness and elegance, it displays a light silhouette in the garden that sways in the summer breeze.
In the vegetable garden, it is generous and quick-growing, offering an early harvest of tender leaves, perfect for adding a burst of color and sweetness to the plate. Its discreet yet assertive nature makes it a faithful ally for gardeners attentive to the diversity and beauty of their crops.
Native to Europe, oak leaf lettuce is distinguished by its finely cut, soft leaves reminiscent of oak leaves, hence its evocative name. Prized for its tender texture and mild flavor, it naturally finds its place in modern vegetable gardens, offering a quick and renewable harvest.
In the garden, it proves generous and easy to grow, with a spreading habit and fairly rapid growth. Its fine foliage is an invitation to refresh salads throughout the summer season. A valued companion plant, it integrates harmoniously into diverse plantings.
Originating from temperate regions, this lettuce mix creates a symphony of leaves—wavy, curly, smooth, or serrated—ranging from tender green to deep red . Each variety finds its place, contributing texture, color, and depth to a leafy carpet that is as pleasing to behold as it is to harvest.
Easy to grow, mixed lettuce can be sown in rows or broadcast, offering a quick harvest from early spring. With successive sowings every 2 to 4 weeks , it ensures a continuous lettuce production . It prefers cool, well-drained soil and partial shade during warmer periods. Its low-growing habit limits weeds and attracts beneficial insects that promote healthy soil .
Native to Europe, the Winter Red romaine lettuce is prized for its reddish leaves and slightly robust flavor, adding a touch of color and character to winter salads. Traditionally valued for its cold hardiness, this variety is a welcome addition to organic vegetable gardens, extending harvests beyond the first frosts.
In the garden, it stands out for its hardiness and its ability to retain its crispness despite the frosts. Its upright habit and toothed leaves, tinged with deep purple hues, make it a valuable companion that withstands low temperatures well while providing visual and gustatory diversity.
Developed through careful selection for its robustness, this head lettuce is distinguished by its compact, uniform head and crisp, bright green leaves. Pablo is a reliable variety that naturally finds its place in gardens committed to sustainable practices, offering easy cultivation.
In the garden, it proves generous and consistent. Resistant to bolting and unpredictable weather, it flexibly supports successive sowings throughout the growing season. Its dense, slightly open habit promotes healthy, airy growth. A valuable ally for self-sufficient, edible gardens.
Originating in the Balkans, the Yugoslavian Red head lettuce is distinguished by its spectacular purplish-red foliage, which catches the eye and visually enriches vegetable gardens. Traditionally grown in family gardens in the Yugoslav region, it has won over modern gardeners thanks to its hardiness and mild flavor.
In the garden, this variety forms a beautiful, dense head with crisp leaves, ideal for adding a colorful and nutritious touch to salads. Its hardiness makes it a preferred choice for organic gardeners looking for vegetables that are both decorative and flavorful.
Leaf lettuce trio is a captivating composition that brings together several varieties of leaf lettuce, often from mixes chosen for their differences in color, texture, and flavor.
The result of ancient European selections, chosen for the beauty of their foliage and the richness of their textures. Tender green, coppery bronze, or deep red intertwine in a plant mosaic that revitalizes the garden from the very first weeks of growth.
Vigorous and fast-growing, this trio of leaf lettuce forms a nourishing and colorful carpet that complements the gardener's daily tasks. Its continuous growth allows for a prolonged harvest, leaf by leaf, as desired. It's a reliable plant, perfectly suited to quiet corners of the vegetable garden, sunny flowerbeds, or balconies where it thrives without requiring excessive space or maintenance.
This generous cultivation offers a balance between utility and aesthetics, contributing to a living, beautiful and nourishing garden, in connection with the gentle rhythms of daily life.
Native to North America, Deer Tongue leaf lettuce is distinguished by its long, narrow leaves, reminiscent of a deer's tongue, hence its evocative name. Its tender texture and mild flavor make it a popular choice for fresh salads, adding a delicate crunch to culinary creations.
In the garden, this variety stands out as a generous and easy-to-grow plant, particularly well-suited to the cool climates of spring and autumn. Its early maturity makes it a valuable ally for gardeners looking to extend the salad season thanks to a quick and abundant harvest.
With its fine and elegant foliage, it fits perfectly into a diverse garden, where it plays the role of a refined and nourishing vegetable plant, while bringing a burst of greenery to vegetable beds.
Native to Europe, the Sucrine head lettuce is a prized variety for its delicately sweet taste and crisp texture. Its dense heart and thin leaves give it a mild flavor that makes it a favorite in fresh salads.
In the garden, Sucrine produces small, compact, robust, and resistant heads, perfect for early or late harvests. With its tender green foliage and compact habit, it blends harmoniously into vegetable gardens, bringing freshness and vitality.
This lettuce stands out for its ease of cultivation and its delicious contribution which delights gardeners and gourmets, embodying sweetness at the heart of the vegetable garden.
La laitue pommée Merveille des 4 saisons est une variété patrimoniale cultivée en France depuis la fin du XIXe siècle. Parfois appelée « Besson à graines noires », elle est reconnue pour sa beauté, sa polyvalence et sa remarquable tolérance aux variations climatiques.
Elle produit de belles grosses laitues au cœur bien serré, composées de feuilles bicolores dont la base vert pomme contraste élégamment avec des pointes rouge cuivré. Cette coloration s’intensifie souvent avec les nuits fraîches, ajoutant un intérêt visuel marqué au potager.
Elle doit son nom à sa capacité à mieux tolérer la chaleur estivale que bien d’autres laitues pommées. Même lorsque les températures montent, elle conserve une saveur douce et agréable, sans amertume marquée. Il reste toutefois préférable de la récolter dès que la pomme est bien formée afin d’éviter la montée en graines.
Au jardin, Merveille des 4 saisons se montre fiable et adaptable. Elle apprécie les sols frais, riches et bien drainés, ainsi qu’une exposition ensoleillée à mi-ombragée. Une pratique courante consiste à effectuer plusieurs semis consécutifs à quelques jours d’intervalle. Cette approche permet d’échelonner les récoltes et d’éviter d’avoir trop de laitues prêtes en même temps.
Originating in Europe, Black Seeded Simpson leaf lettuce is an heirloom variety prized for its finely serrated leaves and rapid growth. It is distinguished by its light green leaves with a delicate texture and its spreading habit, offering an early harvest ideal for temperate climates.
In the garden, this lettuce is generous and easy to grow, perfect for topping salads and fresh plates. Its early maturity and tenderness make it a favorite variety among gardeners looking for delicate flavors right from the start of the season.
Cultivated primarily for its crisp and juicy stem, Cracoviensis asparagus lettuce is a striking variety originating from Central Europe. Its upright silhouette, supported by a thick, erect stem, evokes both the elegance of asparagus and the freshness of lettuce.
Its sparse foliage, sometimes tinged with purple, adds a graphic touch to the vegetable garden while still allowing light to filter through. Hardy, it adapts well to spring and autumn crops, tolerating temperature fluctuations. Ideal for gardens seeking edible diversity, it offers a unique and productive presence, both decorative and nutritious.
Originating in temperate regions, the 'Reine des Glaces' head lettuce is distinguished by its vibrant freshness and mild flavor. Following the tradition of lettuce-based varieties, it embodies an admirable balance between crisp texture and delicate taste, making it ideal for organic gardens and diverse vegetable patches.
In the garden, it stands out for its relative heat resistance and rapid growth, producing tightly packed, bright, almost translucent heads. It integrates perfectly into a leafy vegetable arrangement, bringing vitality and freshness to summer and autumn harvests.
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