Astéracées • Lactuca sativa var. capitata

Red iceberg lettuce

"Under the summer light, a promise silently takes shape: leaves edged with purple, freshness contained in a tender heart, ready to be picked."

$4.49

Number of seeds 400 seeds

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.

Growing climate: Temperate to cool climate
Sowing difficulty level: Easy
Care required: Regular

Note: Sensitive to excessive humidity and intense heat.

Each leaf offers a crisp texture, a mild, slightly sweet flavor, and remarkable nutritional value, superior to traditional green lettuces. It is delicious when mature or picked young to create colorful salads.

Prized in kitchens where the daily pleasure of a home harvest is transformed into simple gestures — in fresh salad, as a sandwich filling or whole rolled leaves — it keeps for a few days in the fridge, but reveals all its charm when enjoyed soon after picking.

Inheriting ancient know-how, it perpetuates the tradition of a collaborative vegetable garden, cultivated with care and respect for living things.