About this variety
What to expect from Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
A fast looseleaf heirloom with pale green ruffled leaves and a generous cut-and-come-again habit.
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Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce seeds produce a fast looseleaf heirloom with pale green ruffled leaves and a generous cut-and-come-again habit.
Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce performs best when the crop is timed for cool weather, established in fertile, well-drained soil, and kept growing without drought checks. The practical work is simple but not careless: sow at the proper depth, thin on time, water the root zone, inspect the undersides of leaves, and harvest before quality slips.
Beginner gardens, baby leaf, succession sowing, and quick salads are where this variety earns its place. The expected flavor is mild, tender, lightly sweet, with large loose rosette and maturity about 40-50 days. This is not a decorative catalog promise. It is a crop that responds to soil, temperature, spacing, and the discipline of regular harvest.
Black Seeded Simpson is one of the best-known nineteenth-century American looseleaf lettuces. It has circulated through many seed houses and strain selections.
Minimum Seed Count: 1,000 seeds
Additional variety overview
Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce seeds give gardeners a fast looseleaf heirloom with pale green ruffled leaves and a generous cut-and-come-again habit. The variety belongs in a cool-season plan built around steady moisture, clean airflow, and harvest before heat or stress steals quality. In our seed room, we treat the packet as the beginning of a record: lot, sowing date, soil temperature, emergence, and the field notes that tell us what the variety actually did.Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce is best suited to beginner gardens, baby leaf, succession sowing, and quick salads. Sow with the crop, not the calendar alone. Cool-season seed can sit in dry crusted soil or rush into weak growth when a warm spell arrives. A fine seedbed, even moisture, and prompt thinning matter more than ornamental fussing.
Flavor and texture are strongest when growth is uninterrupted. Harvest at the stage the variety was bred to give, then leave representative plants only when you intend to save seed. Black Seeded Simpson is one of the best-known nineteenth-century American looseleaf lettuces. It has circulated through many seed houses and strain selections.
