This are a familiar sort with crispy leaves , like an iceberg lettuce. They usually make a wrapped-up head, so it can be harder to take just a few leaves at a time.
‘Winter Marvel’
A traditional French variety chosen specifically for sowing in late summer and early autumn. It is quite hardy and will do very nicely in an unheated polytunnel or greenhouse, providing salads in winter and spring when they’re most appreciated.
Remarkably cold-resistant and carried on in the polytunnel long after other varieties had given up!
350 seeds £2.79
“Maximo” Giant Iceberg - A NEW GUEST VARIETY FOR TRIAL
This is an extraordinarily large iceberg lettuce , with a huge loose head and easily-detached plate-sized outer leaves, ideal used whole as a fancy base for a salad. Thin to 50cm gaps between plants if you plan to let them get full-grown!
Guest varieties are promising new ones we haven't tested fully yet. As a crowd-sourced trial, this is your chance to help find out what does well all across the UK, so let us know what you think of them - they'll only be in the catalogue in future years if lots of people email in to say it was really good.
300 seeds £2.69
Fairy Tales (aka “Posavka”) - BOLT-RESISTANT
A large heading variety from Slovenia, making a tightly wrapped ball of crisp green leaves, the edges of which are just touched with a tinge of red. It’s really pretty! But the most remarakble thing in our trials was how bolt-resistant it was, it didn't run to flower or get bitter in the very hot spells we had, even when all the other lettuces gave up.
The intensity of the red colouring will depend on night-time temperatures and so varies with the season.
400 seed £2.49
Jack Ice
This fantastic lettuce has dark green, crisp iceberg leaves in a loose rosette, with spiky, toothed edges. It is very resistant to disease and cold weather.
Toothed crisp leaves, cold resistant.
250 seeds, organic. £2.89
Red Iceberg
A really showy variety - tight round heads wrapped in deep red leaves. Inside is bright green so you get two colours for the price of one.
It stands well for a long time - making big tight heads quickly, and is nice and sweet, with good tolerance of cold and wet conditions.
Dark red iceberg, very pretty,now exceedingly rare, apologies for the small packet but they make very few seeds.
200 seeds, organic. £3.30
Reine des Glaces HUGELY POPULAR
The name means 'Queen of the Ices' and it is a fantastic crisphead - green tightly wrapped iceberg heads, with incredibly frilly & toothed leaves. It’s a real attention getter in the garden every summer.
About 200 years old, this strain has recently been reselected for home gardeners, and the seed we have is really vigorous. Fantastic feedback from all over the country, everyone seems to want it in increasing numbers every year.
Toothed iceberg, incredible, fantastic lettuce. Can also be grown as a Winter Lettuce, the picture here shows it unearthed from the snow where it was growing high in the Pyrenees.
350 seed , organic. £2.99
