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. The variety thrives across most USDA zones, including colder regions where extended spring and fall seasons provide ideal growing windows for premium leaf lettuce production. The mildly sweet flavor profile develops fully in mature leaves while maintaining delicate tenderness throughout all growth stages. This consistent quality allows flexible harvest timing based on culinary preferences—from tender baby leaves for delicate salad mixes to full-sized mature leaves for substantial preparations. The loose-leaf growth habit enables continuous harvesting of outer leaves while the plant continues producing new growth from the center, extending the productive season significantly. The large, ruffled leaf structure provides excellent visual presentation and textural contrast in finished dishes, elevating simple salads and composed plates. The tender leaves maintain their crisp texture and mild flavor even during warm weather when most lettuces develop heat-induced bitterness. Expect mature, harvestable leaves in approximately 50 days from transplanting. Each packet contains 50 non-GMO seeds with a 70% or better germination rate. David's Garden Seeds® packages these premium seeds in sustainable, environmentally friendly materials that are fully reusable and recyclable, supporting your commitment to ecological stewardship.

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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.

Freshly Packed: These lettuce seeds are packed for the current growing season and will provide high germination rates next year as well.