Lettuce Loose Leaf Red Sails is an All-America Selections award-winning variety celebrated for its exceptional heat tolerance and reliable performance across diverse climatic zones. This striking loose-leaf lettuce features elegant green foliage with distinctive red-tipped leaf margins, creating visual sophistication in both garden beds and culinary presentations. The bicolor leaf pattern indicates robust pigment production that contributes enhanced nutritional value and antioxidant content beyond standard green lettuce varieties. The remarkable heat tolerance of Red Sails enables successful cultivation in warm growing seasons and hot climates where conventional lettuces rapidly bolt and become bitter. This environmental resilience proves invaluable for gardeners in transitional climates or those managing variable seasonal conditions, ensuring consistent harvests regardless of temperature fluctuations. 

Germination Rate: 98%. Date Tested: 10/25. TLM.

Order today and grow your own fresh leaf lettuce in your spring and fall gardens.

David’s Garden Seeds is a Veteran owned business that has been offering quality lettuce seeds since 2009.

David's Garden Seeds® is a member of the GO TEXAN agriculture program.

We cannot possibly put all the directions you need for growing loose leaf lettuce in your area on the seed package. We recommend that you read articles or check with other gardeners in your area.

This is an heirloom seed, meaning it has been passed down from generation to generation for at least 75 years. As a rule, heirloom seeds taste better and will grow the same year after year.

These are also open pollinated meaning they will reproduce themselves. While all heirlooms are open pollinated not all open pollinated seeds are heirlooms.