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how many different varieties of lettuce is there ???

jax wants to no thats all n i only no

little gem
cos
and iceberg

17

lol 17 wow

what are there names

Look - you only asked how many varieties there were - you didn't ask for their names. I know there are loads and loads ...

17 is a stab in the dark - LOL - I expect, if you turn this into an alphabetical lettuce thread we'll find out!

No - don't worry - I'll do it!

LOL

Jill

lmaooooooooooo jilll thanks hun

Hundreds, you could have a different one every day for over a year!

pmsl

so this is why ya didnt want me looking on gr ya norty girl haha

hundreds wow thats a lot of lettuce
she wil be pleased

http://localfoods.about.com/od/spring/tp/LettuceVarieties.htm

Oh Carol that's cheating! Supposed to be brain power tonight - I mean you know how much this lot need a bit of thinking!

Grouped as: Lettuce

Childrens - Salad Niche
Vegetable.
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.

Description Price
1 packet (200 seeds) £0.99

Chinese Leaves : Richi F1
Vegetable.
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.

Description Price
1 packet (60 seeds) £1.99

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

Description Price
1 packet (4000 seeds) £1.69 Out of Stock

Endive : Indivia Mixed
Salad Vegetable.
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.

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

Description Price
1 packet (6000 seeds) £1.69

Herb : Culinary Collection : Nice 'n' Spicy
Herb.
Mixture contains a selection from the following: Salad Rocket, Red Giant Mustard, Green Wave Mustard, Miluna. A unique selection of fresh leaves, especially to create a taste of the orient in salads or stir-frys. This imaginative nice 'n' spicy blend provides a real alternative to normal salad leaves, adding new textures, colours and tastes.

Description Price
1 packet (500 seeds) £1.99 Out of Stock

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

Description Price
1 packet (1750 seeds) £1.89

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

Description Price
1 packet (2000 seeds) £1.49

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

Description Price
1 packet (1700 seeds) £1.79

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

Description Price
1 packet (250 seeds) £2.29

Lettuce : Butterhead : Fatima - Organic
Vegetable.
A voluminous butterhead. with an appealing mid green colour. 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.

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.

Description Price
1 packet (200 seeds) £1.99

Lettuce : Butterhead : Tom Thumb
Vegetable.
The smallest lettuce. A compact, solid butterhead type with deliciously soft leaves just right for small families or restricted space. It 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 it will be the first variety to harvest.

Description Price
1 packet (1350 seeds) £1.49

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

Description Price
1 packet (350 seeds) £1.39

Lettuce : Butterhead Dynamite - Duchy Originals
Vegetable.
Soft hearted butterhead with good pest and disease tolerance.

Description Price
1 packet (150 seeds) £1.89

Lettuce : Cassandra Seed Tape
Vegetable.
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).

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.

Description Price
1 tape £1.99

Lettuce : Colour Shades Mixed
Vegetable.
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.

Description Price
1 packet (800 seeds) £1.99

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

Description Price
1 packet (250 seeds) £1.99

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

Also resistant to Bremia NL1-16.

Description Price
1 packet (200 seeds) £2.39 Out of Stock

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

Description Price
1 packet (300 seeds) £2.39

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

Description Price
1 packet (1250 seeds) £1.49

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

Well this year I'm growing " black seeded sumara " lettuce.

Lettuce : Green Hearting Mixed
Vegetable.
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. Contents: Avondefiance, Diana, Romany, Bubbles, Court.

Description Price
1 packet (800 seeds) £1.99

Lettuce : Iceberg : Miluna - Organic
Vegetable.
A sweet tasting Iceberg with dense. crunchy hearts. Exceptional standing ability through hot summer conditions. Full Bremia NL 1-16 resistance.

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.

Description Price
1 packet (200 seeds) £1.89 Out of Stock

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

Description Price
1 packet (500 seeds) £1.99

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

Description Price
1 packet (1500 seeds) £1.49

Lettuce : Lakeland
Vegetable.
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 are quick to mature and slow to bolt. Recommended for harvesting in succession from spring to July and can also be sown in October in cold frames or the cold greenhouse for cutting in early May.

Description Price
1 packet (300 seeds) £2.29

Lettuce : Lattuga Bionda Lenta a Montare
Salad Vegetable.
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.

Description Price
1 packet (4800 seeds) £1.69 Out of Stock

Lettuce : Lattuga Lollo Bionda
Salad Vegetable.
Forms a round mound of pale green, frilled edged leaves. 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.

Description Price
1 packet (4000 seeds) £1.69 Out of Stock

Lettuce : Lattuga Red Salad Bowl
Salad Vegetable.
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.

Description Price
1 packet (4000 seeds) £1.69

Lettuce : Lattuga Rossa a Foglia Riccia da Tavolo
Salad Vegetable.
A loose leaf 'picking lettuce' producing 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.

Description Price
1 packet (7000 seeds) £1.99

Lettuce : Lattuga Verde A Foglia Riccia
Salad Vegetable.
A loose leaf 'picking lettuce' producing 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.

Description Price
1 packet (7000 seeds) £1.69

Lettuce : Little Gem : Delight - Duchy Originals
Vegetable.
Compact, 'Little Gem' producing a crisp, dense heart. Delicious sweet flavour. Some downy mildew tolerance.

Description Price
1 packet (175 seeds) £1.99

Lettuce : Little Gem : Pearl
Vegetable.
(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.

Description Price
1 packet (750 seeds) £1.99 Out of Stock

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

Description Price
1 packet (250 seeds) £1.89

Lettuce : Multy
Vegetable.
New breeding in 'picking lettuce' to give a crisp textured leaf of excellent flavour. Simply cut the stem 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.

Excellent downy mildew resistance for a long season of production.

Description Price
1 packet (200 seeds) £2.19

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

Description Price
1 packet (350 seeds) £1.69

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

Description Price
1 packet (225 seeds) £2.09

Lettuce : Quattro Stagioni
Salad Vegetable.
A 'butterhead' variety with soft round, medium sized hearts for sowing and harvesting throughout the spring and summer. The outer leaves and heart 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.

Description Price
1 packet (6400 seeds) £1.69

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

Ideal for spring and summer sowings. Suitable for 'cut and come again', baby leaf or mature hearts.

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

To claim a refund, please advise the Horticultural Manager in

thank you carol
lol jill
mam ya show off lol

~~~amanda

Lettuce : Salad Bowl
Vegetable.
All-American Gold Medal winner. 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 will continue to replace itself the whole season

Description Price
1 packet (1250 seeds) £1.89

Lettuce : Salad Leaves Mixed
Vegetable.
(Summer-Autumn) A separately packaged collection to provide different types, colours and textures and a longer harvest from one sowing. Ideal for small gardens, providing a great selection in a small space.

Description Price
1 packet (500 seeds) £1.99 Out of Stock

Lettuce : Tin Tin
Vegetable.
A slightly larger Little Gem type which is similar in flavour, but 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. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Description Price
1 packet (250 seeds) £2.49

Lettuce : Ultimate Mixed
Vegetable.
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. The mix contains a range of colours, tastes and textures, both leaf and hearting types, for harvest throughout summer an autumn.

Description Price
1 packet (200 seeds) £2.39 Out of Stock

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

Description Price
1 packet (800 seeds) £1.99

Lettuce : Winter Gem (January-May)
Vegetable.
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). Delicious small, crunchy, sweet hearts equal in taste to Little Gem, will be ready to harvest from January onwards, for use in winter salads.

Description Price
1 packet (150 seeds) £1.99

Radicchio : Firestorm - Duchy Originals
Vegetable.
Italian salad vegetable, rich in antioxidants. Best grown for full sized heads in autumn and early winter with excellent weather resistance. The round heads have green outer leaves.

Description Price
1 packet (25 seeds) £2.99

Radicchio Treviso Precoce Mesola
Vegetable.
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. 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.

Description Price
1 packet (300 seeds) £1.99

Rocket (Organic)
Popular, easy-to-grow salad leaf, used in salads and sandwiches for its unique aromatic taste. Can also be included in pizza and pasta dishes, or steamed as a spinach substitute. Sow in succession and pick leaves as required.

Description Price
1 packet (750 seeds) £0.99

Salad : All Seasons Salad
Vegetable.
A mix of Chinese Leaf, Iceberg, Radicchio and Frisee leaves, delicious whatever the season.

Description Price
1 packet (2000 seeds) £1.69

Salad : Baby Leaf Salad
Vegetable.
Succulent spicy mix of Spinach, Mizuna and Red Mustard.

Description Price
1 packet (1250 seeds) £1.59

Salad : Continental Salad
Vegetable.
Delicious continental flavours in a mix of Romaine, Frisee, Lollo Rossa and Lambs Lettuce.

Description Price
1 packet (1750 seeds) £1.79

Salad : Crunchy Lettuce Leaves Blend
Vegetable.
Quick growing, nutritious salad leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow 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. CONTENTS: Lettuces Red Cos, Green Cos, Catalogna & Endive Romanesco.

Description Price
1 packet (1500 seeds) £1.69

Salad : Herby Salad Leaf Mixed
Salad Vegetable.
Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow 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. 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.

Description Price
1 packet (750 seeds) £1.99

Salad : Niche Oriental Mixed
Vegetable.
This innovative blend will add oriental flavours, colours and textures to your salads. 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.

Ideal for containers on the patio.

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

Description Price
1 packet (500 seeds) £1.99 £1.89

Salad : Niche Salad Collection
Vegetable.
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 and red, komatsuna, mizuna and sky rocket.

Description Price
2 packets - 1 of each (900 seeds in total) £2.99

Salad : Niche Salad Leaves
Vegetable.
An exciting blend of salad leaves 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.

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

Description Price
1 packet (400 seeds) £1.99 £1.89

Salad : Oriental Mustards
Vegetable.
Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes and also stir fries. Sow regularly all the year round for a constant supply of 'salad leaves'. Pick nutritious leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Ideal in containers on the patio.Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C and K, and folate. CONTENTS: Mustards Red Giant, Red Feather and green frilled Pizzo.

Description Price
1 packet (2000 seeds) £1.69

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

Oooooo I do like the sound of that nice and spicy one lol

Blimey - and there's me thinking it was that cold, crunchy, green stuff that you find next to your tomato!

Jill

*looks at plate

no thats celery Jill lol

oops

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