Lettuce 'Salinas 88'

Lactuca Sativa

The iceberg lettuce that dominated the commercial worldwide market for decades, dull green leaves fold to enclose the creamy yellow interior.

Best known of the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s lettuce, Salinas is a crisp-textured, attractively shaped iceberg variety that became a classic soon after it was introduced to growers in 1975.

Developed at Salinas, California (the largest lettuce growing valley in the US), by ARS plant breeder Edward J. Ryder, this cultivar arrived at markets with less crushing and bruising than other icebergs of its time. And, compared to other icebergs, Salinas had the highest level of resistance to tip-burn disease. Tipburn causes leaf edges to brown and die. That makes the lettuce vulnerable to attack by slime-producing bacteria and fungi.

Ryder also has fine-tuned the original. His Salinas 88, possesses all the attributes of the famous parent plus resistance to lettuce mosaic virus disease. The disease causes an unattractive mosaic pattern of dark and light green on leaves of infected plants and reduces yields.

Certified Demeter Biodynamic and Certified Organic

SEED COUNT: 250 , 1000 approx.
Germination: Lot#17320 98% Apr 2025