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'Speckled' Lettuce

Sub-Category:	Butterhead (Bibb/Boston)

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Description:	Butterhead (bibb/Boston) Amish heirloom. Small, firm heads with apple-green outer leaves splashed with maroon flecks and soft, creamy-yellow, blanched inner leaves. Also known as 'Speckles'.
Days To Maturity:	55
Seed Sources:	Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014

Rating Summary

Overall: (5.0 Stars) Taste: (5.0 Stars) Yield: (4.0 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (4.5 Stars)

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Number of Reviews: 2

KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease

Reviewed on 10/02/2011 by Ferdzy - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Ontario, Canada Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Sand Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This is a pretty and amusing plant, with its little splashes of red all over the green leaves. It is also one of the more reliable and tasty lettuces we have grown. I do tend to look at all the little speckles when I am cleaning it and think there is debris on the leaves though! Holds fairly well in the garden.

Reviewed on 06/02/2010 by jlm -
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Marin, California, United States Frost Free Season: Soil Texture: Garden Size: Sun Exposure:
I grew 11 different kinds of lettuce last year and this was my favorite. It's easy to grow from seed and produced large heads. It takes longer than leaf lettuce, which is the only downside. The tastes is fabulous.

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