Grouped as: Lettuce

Childrens - Salad Niche

Do you think plain old lettuce is boring? See how many different shaped, coloured and flavoured leaves you can grow with this lovely mixture. You can harvest me almost all through the year as well. I can be grown in the garden or in containers on the patio.

Contents: Radish Saisai, Edible Leaf Carrot, Cress Wrinkled Crinkles, Kale Red Russian, Golden Purslane, Salad Burnet, Amaranth Red Garnet.

Chinese Leaves : Richi F1

Chinese Leaves are quick maturing and form a cos lettuce type heart in under 9 weeks. Plants are very slow to bolt, so stand well over a long season. Use as salad leaves as you would a Romaine lettuce or as a full heart for salads, stir fries and as a cooked vegetable.

Superb quality and garden performance without bolting.

Mature heads can be cut and stored in a frost free shed.

Endive : Indivia D'Estale A Cuore Giallo

Grown similarly to lettuce, mature blanched hearts will be less bitter and have a creamy yellow centre with darker green outside leaves. Indivia D'Estale A Cuore Giallo is an ideal ingredient for a mixed leaf salad to add taste and texture contrasts.

Endive : Indivia Mixed

A mixture of different tastes, colours and leaf shapes, from light to dark green outer leaves and white to gold centres, plus deep green salad endive with upright irregular shaped leaves. Ideal for summer and autumn cultivation.

Endive Indivia Mixed contains Endive Romanesca da Taglio, Fijne Krul Geel (Sempre Bianca), Pancalieri a Costa Bianca, Riccia a Cuore d'Oro.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Lettuce Dazzle

Lactuca sativa. Stunning 'midi romaine' with burgundy outer leaves with crunchy, sweet, pale green hearts. Sow regularly for delicious lettuce all summer long. Lettuce Dazzle is ideal in containers.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Salad Leaves Cut 'n' Come Again

A quick growing salad leaf mixture, ideal for sowing in containers outdoors throughout the summer, and indoors on a windowsill during the winter. Salad Leaves Cut 'n' Come Again is ready to cut from 25 days in summer and 50 days during winter.

Mixture contains: Mizuna, Salad Rocket, Red Mustard, Pak Choi, Red Russian Kale, Golden Yellow Chinese Cabbage.

Lettuce : Arctic King

A fine lettuce known for its exceptional cold resistance and bred solely for autumn sowings. Lettuce Arctic King is a large lettuce, light green in colour, with tasty, crinkled leaves.

Lettuce : Butterhead : All The Year Round

Medium heads with solid, crisp hearts. Lettuce All The Year Round is very hardy, reliable and dry weather tolerant. Ideal for successional and autumn sowing.

Lettuce : Butterhead : Buttercrunch

Delicious small, compact, dark green heads with a crisp, crunchy, sweet flavour and buttery central heart. Lettuce Buttercrunch is very slow to bolt and will stand well over a long period.

Lettuce : Butterhead : Cassandra

A superb quality, pale green butterhead of excellent flavour, with well-filled voluminous hearts. Lettuce Cassandra is resistant to most races of downy mildew and Lettuce Mosaic Virus. Ideal for growing all year round, especially summer and autumn outdoors.

Lettuce : Butterhead : Fatima - Organic

A voluminous butterhead. with an appealing mid green colour. Lettuce Butterhead Fatima is slow to bolt, standing longer than most varieties, makes it ideal for successional sowing, March- August. A good resistance to tipburn, Bremia NL1-16, and Lettuce Mosaic virus tolerant, all help to give a clean dense head.

Lettuce Butterhead Fatima has been bred to give increased Hybrid vigour, garden performance and flavour, thus increasing your harvest. Due to their wide ranging pest and disease resistance, there will be no need for the use of chemicals, making them ideal for organic gardeners.

Lettuce : Butterhead : Tom Thumb

The smallest lettuce. A compact, solid butterhead type with deliciously soft leaves just right for small families or restricted space. Lettuce Butterhead Tom Thumb can be grown as close as 15cm (6in.) apart and makes a useful early crop in a cold frame or cloches. Very fast growing, from an early spring Butterhead Tom Thumb will be the first variety to harvest.

Lettuce : Butterhead : Yugoslavian Red

An attractive, large, semi hearting, reddish tinged 'butterhead'. When cut in half, Lettuce Yugoslavian Red exposes a solid bright greeny yellow centre with a mild flavour. Lettuce Yugoslavian Red makes an eye-catching addition to the kitchen garden, flower border and salad bowl.

Lettuce : Butterhead Dynamite - Duchy Originals

Soft hearted butterhead. Lettuce Butterhead Dynamite has good pest and disease tolerance.

Lettuce : Cassandra Seed Tape

Seed Tapes are an easy way to sow lettuce. Simply roll out the tapes in a prepared moist seed drill.

Tape length: 5m (16 feet).

Lettuce Cassandra is a superb quality, pale green butterhead with excellent flavoured, well-filled voluminous hearts. Resistant to most races of downy mildew and Lettuce Mosaic Virus. Ideal for growing all year round outdoors.

Lettuce : Colour Shades Mixed

A tantalising mixture of bronze and red shades to add colour, texture and taste to your salad bowl and side garnishes. Enjoy Lettuce Colour Shades Mixed as salad leaf and full heart crops all summer without worry, as this mix is particularly resistant to bolting. Endless supply of loose-leaf lettuce in red shades. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Lettuce : Continental Looseleaf : Lollo Rossa

An excellently flavoured Italian lettuce of the type used in salads and also in many other dishes as a tasty garnish. Lettuce Continental Looseleaf Lollo Rossa is compact, non hearting with a rosette of finely frilled leaves with deep red edge. Lollo Rossa is very easy to grow and attractive in gardens, tubs, containers etc and in the salad.

Lettuce : Continental Looseleaf : Revolution

Sensational deep red to almost black colour, good size, vigour, slow to bolt and good flavour. Continental Looseleaf Revolution can be grown under glass or outside. What more do you need from this triple red Lollo Rosso lettuce?

Continental Looseleaf Revolution is also resistant to Bremia NL1-16.

Lettuce : Cos : Corsair

Sweet, large, solid, heavy heads with a butter yellow heart. Cos Lettuce Corsair has a sturdy habit that helps it to grow well under adverse conditions. Good Mosaic Virus Resistance and excellent standing ability.

Lettuce : Cos : Little Gem

One of the earliest varieties to mature. Lettuce Little Gem produces small compact plants which are packed with a crisp sweet heart and little outside leaf. Lettuce Little Gem is very useful for cloches too.

Lettuce : Freckles

This heirloom lettuce is unusually spotted with a tasty flavour. Lettuce Freckles is an interesting Latin, semi-cos variety that holds well in warm weather and is slow to bolt. Lettuce Freckles is attractive in the kitchen garden or the flower border.

Lettuce : Green Hearting Mixed

Your whole summer lettuce supply from just one packet! Tender and tasty butterheads, crisp and crunchy icebergs and sweet and succulent cos types make up this extra special, great value blend. Slow to bolt meaning longer cropping. Lettuce Green Hearting Mixed contains: Lettuce Avondefiance, Lettuce Diana, Lettuce Romany, Lettuce Bubbles & Lettuce Court.

Lettuce : Iceberg : Miluna - Organic

A sweet tasting Iceberg lettuce with dense. crunchy hearts. Iceberg Lettuce Milunal has exceptional standing ability through hot summer conditions. Full Bremia NL 1-16 resistance.

Iceberg Lettuce Milunal has been bred to give increased Hybrid vigour, garden performance and flavour, thus increasing your harvest. Due to their wide ranging pest and disease resistance, there will be no need for the use of chemicals, making them ideal for organic gardeners.

Lettuce : Iceberg : Sonette

Crunchy, dense, uniformly shaped hearts of excellent quality and flavour. Iceberg Lettuce Sonette is recommended for sowings from spring and throughout the summer as it has excellent mildew resistance. Heads of Iceberg Lettuce Sonette stand well in hot weather and will keep for 2 weeks in the refrigerator after cutting.

Lettuce : Iceberg : Webbs Wonderful

Still the premier garden lettuce in most people's vegetable patch. Iceberg Lettuce Webbs Wonderful has large, wrinkled leaves with a big tight centre of crisp, white leaf. An outstanding Iceberg Lettuce whether the summer is wet or dry, Webbs Wonderful is always slow to run to seed.

Lettuce : Lakeland

Here is a high quality crisp head lettuce with small compact heads which are just the right size for the home gardener. The solid, crisp and tasty heads of Lettuce Lakeland are quick to mature and slow to bolt. Recommended for harvesting in succession from spring to July. Lettuce Lakeland can also be sown in October in cold frames or the cold greenhouse for cutting in early May.

Lettuce : Lattuga Lollo Bionda

Forms a round mound of pale green, frilled edged leaves. Lattuga Lollo Bionda does not produce a firm heart. Cut the entire plant or just pick leaves as required. Makes an attractive complement to Lollo Rossa.

Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds.

Lettuce : Lattuga Red Salad Bowl

Lattuga Red Salad Bowl forms a voluminous head of reddish-bronzed leaves. Non-hearting, just pick young leaves as required or cut the full head, wash and keep in the refrigerator.

Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds.

Lettuce : Lattuga Rossa a Foglia Riccia da Tavolo

A loose leaf 'picking lettuce', Lattuga Rossa a Foglia Riccia da Tavolo produces abundant bronzed leaves to add to salads, and sandwiches, or used as a garnish.

Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds.

Lettuce : Lattuga Verde A Foglia Riccia

A loose leaf 'picking lettuce', Lattuga Verde A Foglia Riccia produces an abundant pale green leaves to add to salads and sandwiches, or used as a garnish.

Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds.

Lettuce : Little Gem : Delight - Duchy Originals

Compact, 'Little Gem' producing a crisp, dense heart. Lettuce Little Gem Delight has a delicious sweet flavour. Some downy mildew tolerance.

Lettuce : Little Gem : Pearl

(Summer/Autumn)

Sweet, crisp flavour. Lettuce Little Gem Pearl is a special selection of the ever-popular Cos variety. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection. Compact plants produce small, sweet, crisp hearts of outstanding flavour. Perfect for the garden or growing in containers.

Lettuce : Mini Green Improved

Improved breeding in delicious, crunchy tennis-ball sized mini Icebergs. The plants of Lettuce Mini Green Improved have a compact habit with very few wasted outer leaves and produce a dense, crunchy delicious 'meal for one' from a single heart. Lettuce Mini Green Improved stands well in good condition for long periods if watered regularly.

Lettuce : Multy

New breeding in 'picking lettuce' to give a crisp textured leaf of excellent flavour. Simply cut the stem of Lettuce Multy and the multi-leaved head falls to pieces, so you can just rinse, shake dry and it is ready for the sandwich or salad bowl.

Lettuce Multy has excellent downy mildew resistance for a long season of production.

Lettuce : Nymans

A British bred medium sized red cos type with a shiny burgundy leaf, Lettuce Nymans retainis its colour halfway into the heart, contrasting with a bright green base. Lettuce Nymans is ideal used as 'baby leaf' or as a mature heart, which is slow to bolt and has good mildew resistance.

Lettuce : Pandero

Sweet and tasty, miniature 'cos' lettuces with deep red leaves from a young age, so Lettuce Pandero can be used for 'baby leaves' as well as 'hearts'. Useful for smaller gardens or patio containers. Good mildew resistance. Lettuce Pandero is recommended for successional sowings. Prefers a moist, well-drained soil in full sun.

Lettuce : Quattro Stagioni

A 'butterhead' variety with soft round, medium sized hearts for sowing and harvesting throughout the spring and summer. The outer leaves and heart of Lettuce Quattro Stagioni show an attractive bronzed-red colour.

Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds.

Lettuce : Romaine : Chartwell

The tastiest of all the Romaine lettuces we have ever trialled. Lettuce Chartwell is renowned for its crunchy texture and the sweetest flavour. Excellent downy mildew resistance, with good bolting tolerance and heart quality during hotter summer conditions.

Romaine Lettuce Chartwell is ideal for spring and summer sowings. Suitable for 'cut and come again', baby leaf or mature hearts.

If you don't agree Romaine Lettuce Chartwell is the sweetest lettuce we will give you your money back - guaranteed!

To claim a refund, please advise the Horticultural Manager in writing of which variety you believe to be better, together with the reasons. Full details available on request. No such claims will be accepted after 31st August 2009.

Lettuce : Romaine : Lattuga Bionda Lenta a Montare

Lattuga Bionda Lenta a Montare is a delicious, crisp, dark green, classic 'Romaine' type with solid hearts which stand in good condition during hot weather. Traditionally used in Caesar salads.

Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds.

Lettuce : Romaine : Pinokkio - Duchy Originals

Midi sized Romaine with large crisp, dense hearts. Lettuce Pinokkio has good downy mildew tolerance.

Lettuce : Salad Bowl

All-American Gold Medal winner. Salad Bowl Lettuce is large, medium-green, slow bolting, non-heading and decidedly tender. Don't pull the whole plants - be selective - go down the row choosing only the largest, tenderest leaves. This way Salad Bowl Lettuce will continue to replace itself the whole season

Lettuce : Tin Tin

A slightly larger Little Gem type which is similar in flavour, but Lettuce Tin Tin has slightly more 'bubbled' leaves, giving it a more distinctive appearance. Lettuce Tin Tin is ready to harvest approximately 11 weeks from sowing with delicious crisp, 'romaine' hearts that stand well during hot summer weather. Suitable for 'cut and come again', baby leaf or mature hearts. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Lettuce : Ultimate Mixed

An exciting mix of named varieties with excellent Nasonovia (green aphid) and mildew resistance, so top quality lettuce can be produced without the need of chemical sprays. Lettuce Ultimate Mixed contains a range of colours, tastes and textures, both leaf and hearting types, for harvest throughout summer an autumn.

Lettuce : Valamaine (Cut And Come Again)

A reliable, simple, productive and space-saving method which can be tailored to your weekly requirements. Early sowings of Lettuce Valamaine should mature in about 60 days, mid-season sowings in about 40 days. Lettuce Valamaine is specially chosen because the young leaves have no bitterness.

Lettuce : Winter Gem (January-May)

A specially bred Little Gem Cos for sowing from September to January and for growing in a unheated greenhouse or in a cold frame for overwinter production (not suitable for growing outdoors). Lettuce Winter Gem has delicious small, crunchy, sweet hearts equal in taste to Little Gem, will be ready to harvest from January onwards, for use in winter salads.

Radicchio : Firestorm - Duchy Originals

Italian salad vegetable, rich in antioxidants. Radicchio Firestorm is best grown for full sized heads in autumn and early winter with excellent weather resistance. The round heads have green outer leaves.

Radicchio : Treviso Precoce Mesola

Italian salad vegetable used to add zest, colour, texture and unique flavour to mixed salads. Ideal for autumn and early winter use, with outstanding weather resistance. Radicchio Treviso Precoce Mesola can also be used as a salad leaf through the spring and summer. Distinctive flavour and texture in a mixed salad.

Prefers a fertile, well-drained soil in full sun.

Salad Leaves : Speedy Mix

A really quick growing mix for those gardeners who cannot wait! Salad Leaves Speedy Mixed produces a tasty blend of tastes, textures, colours and leaf shapes for sandwiches, salads and garnishes. Quickest during the summer months when Speedy Mixed will produce 'salad leaves' in about 25 days, but can also be sown all year indoors.

Contents: Salad Rocket Victoria, Greek Cress, Mizuna, Mustard Green & Red Frills, Pak Choi Canton White.

Salad : All Seasons Salad

All Seasons Salad is a mix of Chinese Leaf, Iceberg, Radicchio and Frisee leaves, delicious whatever the season.

Salad : Baby Leaf Salad

Baby Leaf Salad produces a succulent spicy mix of Spinach, Mizuna and Red Mustard.

Salad : Continental Salad

Continental Salad produces delicious continental flavours in a mix of Romaine, Frisee, Lollo Rossa and Lambs Lettuce.

Salad : Crunchy Lettuce Leaves Blend

Quick growing, nutritious salad leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Crunchy Lettuce Leaves Blend add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow seeds regularly all the year round for a constant supply of 'salad leaves'. Ideal in containers on the patio. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. Crunchy Lettuce Leaves Blend contains: Lettuce Red Cos, Lettuce Green Cos, Lettuce Catalogna & Endive Romanesco.

Salad : Herby Salad Leaf Mixed

Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow Herby Salad Leaf Mixed regularly all the year round for a constant supply of 'salad leaves'. Pick nutritious salad leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Herby Salad Leaf Mixed is ideal in containers on the patio. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C & K, and folate. CONTENTS: Green lettuce, Mizuna, Salad Rocket, Greek Cress, Giant Red Mustard and Chicory Puntarelle.

Salad : Niche Oriental Mixed

This innovative blend will add oriental flavours, colours and textures to your salads. Niche Oriental Mixed is ideal for sowing in succession, to pick leaves as you need them. Can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a complete season of harvesting.

Niche Oriental Mixed is ideal for containers on the patio.

Featuring leaf Mustards, Golden Streaked and Red, Komatsuna, Mizuna and Sky Rocket.

Salad : Niche Salad Collection

The Niche Salad Collection comprises one packet each of:

Niche Salad Leaves
An exciting blend of that adds a range of colours, tastes and textures to your salads. The blend consists of Leaf Radish, Leaf Carrot, Wrinkled Cress, Kale Red Russian, Red Amaranth, Golden Purslane and Salad Burnet.

Niche Oriental Mixed
This innovative blend will add oriental flavours, colours and textures to your salads. Includes Leaf Mustards, Golden Streaked Komatsuna, Red Komatsuna, Mizuna and Sky Rocket.

Salad Leaves : Winter Blend

A slower growing mix ideal for growing through the shorter days of winter providing a nutritious and tasty blend of brassica leaves. Salad Leaves Winter Blend offers a tasty winter salad with the many, healthy and nutritious benefits these leaves can bring.

Contents: Kale Scarlet & Blue Curled, Mustard Red Frills, Rocket Dentellata, Mizuna CN selection.

Salad Leaves : Bright & Spicy

A bright blend of coloured salad leaves, Bright & Spicy Salad Leaves consist of milder flavoured Pak Choy Golden Yellow, Choy Sum and Mizuna, plus a hint of spice from the Greek cress and mustard Red Frills. Bright & Spicy Salad Leaves are delightful added to salads, sandwiches and garnishes.

Salad Leaves : Corn Salad Cavallo

Corn Salad Cavallo keeps on producing a mass of fresh flavoured, deep green 'lamb's lettuce' leaves. A late summer sowing will guarantee winter salads.

Salad Leaves : Kale Fizz

Kale Fizz is a fast growing kale with an upright plant habit which is a product of British breeding in brassica leaves with new leaf shapes and textures. These highly nutritious salad leaves, which are deeply and finely lobed, will complement any mixed leaf salad.

However, if Kale Fizz is grown outdoors or at wider spacings in a large container, the plants will be more productive and the larger leaves can be used as a cooked vegetable. Larger plants are very winter hardy.

Salad Leaves : Mixed

A separately packaged collection, Salad Leaves Mixed provides different types, colours and textures and a longer harvest from one sowing. Salad Leaves Mixed is ideal for small gardens, providing a great selection in a small space.

Salad Leaves : Niche Salad Leaves

An exciting blend of salad leaves, Niche Salad Leaves add a range of colours, tastes and textures to your salads. The blend of Niche Salad Leaves consists of Leaf Radish, Leaf Carrot, Wrinkled Cress, Kale Red Russian, Red Amaranth, Golden Purslane and Salad Burnet.

Sow seeds in succession, pick leaves as required. Can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a complete season of harvesting.

Salad Leaves : Stir Fry Mixed

Salad Leaves Stir Fry Mixed will add colours, tastes and textures to your stir fries, mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes, also use as a steamed or microwaved vegetable. Sow seeds regularly all the year round for a constant supply of nutritious 'salad leaves'. Ideal in containers on the patio. Salad Leaves Stir Fry Mixed is quick growing, under 30 days during summer months. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Mizuna, Canton Pak Choy, Red Mustard, Texel Greens & Cavolo Nero.

Salad Leaves Mixture : Misticanza D'Insalate

A delicious blend of lettuce which, from regular sowings give tasty salad leaves all the year round

Misticanza D'Insalate is a well-balanced mixture of young, fresh and tender leaves of chicory, lettuce, and endives. It will provide a continuous harvest of salad leaves all the year round if successionally sown in pots on the windowsill, or sown outdoors from March to September. It is easy to grow with minimum maintenance.

Salad Leaves Mixture Misticanza D'Insalate contains: Lettuce Bionda a Foglia Liscia, Bionda a Foglia Riccia, Verde a Foglia Riccia, Meraviaglia Delle 4 Stagioni and Biscia Rossa.

Saladisi Vegetable

Ready in 6-8 weeks, Saladisi will then crop for 6 months or more. A new application of an old European technique producing nutritious, tasty and tender leaves through many months of the year. Saladisi is particularly valuable for producing tender young shoots in spring and a spring sowing should produce salad material through summer.