Northern Queen Lettuce
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- Variety Champions Lettuce
About 🔗
Vegetable Type: | Lettuce |
Date Added to the Heritage Seed Library: | 2000 |
Our donor found these seeds among her father's gardening clutter. Originally sold by Finneys, a Northumberland seed merchant with nurseries and trial grounds in Newcastle. Finneys closed during the 1950s when this lettuce was its most popular outdoor variety. A large butterhead type with soft, mild-flavoured leaves. Prefers a cooler climate; our donor suggests a September sowing, as it will overwinter with protection.
Champion Northern Queen Lettuce
Why we save Northern Queen Lettuce 🔗
This cold-hardy, ex-commercial variety, originally sold by Finney's a Northumberland seed merchant until the 1950s, may have disappeared forever if wasn't for a packet found by our donor among her late father's gardening clutter. Despite the seed packet already being several years old, her chance disovery along with help from fellow members of the Eastry Horticultural Society helped to bring the variety back from the brink and secure it in the Heritage Seed Library.
