Crop: Lettuce (Lactuca sativa)

Use/Type: Standard

Breeder: Frank Morton Wild Garden Seed

OSSI Pledge Date: 4/17/2014

Release Date: 4/17/2014

Bred for Organic Systems: Yes

Commercial Availability: Yes

Variety Type: Finished Variety

Description

This variety is so red that botany students didn’t recognize it as lettuce when they saw it in our breeding nursery back in ‘98, though a crowd did gather to discuss what it might be. A nice upright cut salad variety, forms a loose romaine head at maturity. An outrage of red in the salad bed, becoming a standard for salad growers. I guess this is our hit. Farm Original Variety!

Availability from OSSI Seed Company Partners

• Wild Garden Seed
• High Mowing Organic Seeds
• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
• BC Eco Seed Co-op
• Hawthorn Farm
• Redwood Seeds
• Quail Seeds