Data specific to Lettuces (Edit)
Lettuce Type: Looseleaf

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Spread: up to 16 inches
Leaves: Other: Grown for its large, loose, crumpled, light green edible leaves. Slightly ruffled and blistered. Very early lettuce, ASAP in Spring. NOT heat tolerant.
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Vegetable
Salad greens
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Needs specific temperature: 40F to 75F. Fastest from 60F to 70F.
Days to germinate: 2-15
Depth to plant seed: 1/8 inch deep
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Lettuce almost never cross-pollinates. It has perfect flowers and usually self-pollinates before opening. 42 DTM. OP variety. Heirloom, at least 1850.
Pollinators: Self
Flies

Victory Seed Company sells seeds of 'Black-Seeded Simpson'.

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Alternative cultivar names:
  • 'Black-Seeded Simpson'
  • 'Henderson's Black-Seeded Simpson'

Common names
  • Lettuce

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Location: The Black Hills, SD
Date: 6/12/2023
Harvested today! Grown in a hanging pot.
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2017-04-21
Grows well in a container

Date: 2025-01-17
Location: My Gardens
Date: June 17, 2016
Container Grown
Location: The Black Hills, SD
Date: 5/15/2023
Just transplanted

Courtesy Annie's Heirloom Seeds
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Courtesy Sustainable Seed Company
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Courtesy Sustainable Seed Company
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Courtesy of Diane's Flower Seeds
Location: Norfolk, VA (USDA zone 8a)
Date: 2012-04-16

 Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissi
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Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2017-03-01
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2017-03-07

Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissio
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Comments:
  • Posted by jamyers59 (Smithwick, Texas - Zone 8b) on Jan 6, 2014 12:19 AM concerning plant:
    What a beautiful Lettuce! Does anyone know how well it would do as a container plant on our apartment balcony here between Houston and Galveston? I know I could tempt the wife away from her old standard "Iceberg" from the "chain" grocer down the street if I could coax a few of these varieties to grow here.
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lovesblooms On March 4, 2018 Seeds sown
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Johannian On June 12, 2023 Harvested
Harvested all four stalks.
Johannian On February 1, 2023 Seeds sown
Winter sown in milk jugs.
TomatoNut95 On September 18, 2023 Seeds sown
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