Most lettuce varieties are used for transplanted ‘head lettuce’ production where either the whole plant (like iceberg) or many leaves from one cut (like multileaf salad mix) are required. These varieties are sold as pills or pellets where the lettuce seed is encased in a tiny clay pill to ensure accurate sowing at the nursery.

Baby leaf lettuce varieties are those that are targeted for high density direct sowing to produce baby leaf salad mix. These varieties are sown at a rate of 1000 to 1500 seeds per square metre. Growth time ranges between 4 to 10 weeks depending on the season, leaves are usually harvested when they are 8-10cm long.

Our range of lettuce varieties provides for year round production, with options in both colour and leaf types. Many of the Fairbanks Seeds and Syngenta lettuce varieties have high levels of disease resistance to known pests including Downy mildew and Nasonovia ribisnigri lettuce aphid.