Recomend me a nice crunchy lettuce!!

[The Griff]

I have a 3 foot square planter that I have filled with mixed leaf salad and spring onions but wondered if anyone can recommend a nice crunchy cut and come again type green lettuce. It's nice to have a mixture of leaves which I have got but would like a nice traditional crunchy green type lettice that I can keep cutting bits off as and when I need it rather than have to cut a full lettuce and waste most of it.
I did grow one last year but got the small plug plants off my uncle that now can't remember the variety.

Thanks

[Scarlet]

Hmm, when you say cruchy lettuce I think of iceburgs and they aren't really caca. They grow a heart. I grow Great Lakes - it's an iceburg, it will heart up but in the early days I take the other leaves off.

[veggiechicken]

Here's one I prepared earlier http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...uce_79080.html
Embarrassingly, I can't tell you the results as some failed to grow, others were slugged and those that survived lost their labels. I'm not very good at these comparison tests

[Spunky]

Black seeded Simpson its a crunchy loose leaf and grows in all weather conditions etc
I don't grow any heading lettuce after seeing the aphids that get trapped inside!

[rary]

Embarrassingly, I can't tell you the results as some failed to grow, others were slugged and those that survived lost their labels. I'm not very good at these comparison tests

Thank goodness I`m not the only one

[Potstubsdustbins]

I grow Lollo Rossa a CACA loose leaf quite crisp and decent flavour tis red though. I pair this with Mesclun a salad leaf mix which to me as a decent bite.

[Urban]

+1 for the lolla Rossa even though it's red, slugs don't seem to bother it either

[The Griff]

I have some Lolla Rossa that I brought back from the dead from aldi a few weeks back, they are doing well, I have just ordered some Black Seeded Simpson seeds to try as well, these added to my mixed leaf seeds should about do it I think.

Thanks again, I will post some pics when my salad bar gets going.

[Thelma Sanders]

Black seeded Simpson its a crunchy loose leaf and grows in all weather conditions etc

Another vote for BSS

[bario1]

There's a new lettuce available in the supermarkets called 'Sweet Gem' - it's like a Little Gem but bigger, and it's delicious. I Wish seed for that was available.

[Valleyman]

I just grow little gems, they are so tiny that there isn't any wastage (as I'd get with icebergs).

I grow a line of them and as I pull them up I pop a few seeds in the hole with a bit of BF&B. By the time I get to the end of the row, the first ones are ready to be eaten again. One lettuce is a tiny side salad, or a bit of lettuce for two burgers from the BBQ. Hard to imagine you ever getting wastage off them.