Bronze Arrow Oakleaf Lettuce
Back! If I had to grow just one salad green, this would be it. I've seen growing in a gravel parking lot through extreme summer heat. And I've also seen it survive winter weather that killed every other lettuce. Great flavor, and amazing vigor.
I know one gardener who cuts heads fairly high up and then gives a bit of compost so the plant will regrow. She cut seven heads in succession off of one Bronze Arrow plant!
Under the name Bronze Beauty, this was an All-America winner in the 1930's for Germania Seeds. When they cut most of their vegetable offerings, it dropped out of sight except for a few seed-savers. Two decades ago, the Jeavons Center got seed, and gardener Carol Cox spent the next several years selecting for bolt-resistance, hardiness, and flavor. Her work has been continued by Ellen Bartholomew, who grew our seed at Golden Rule Garden. By now, their Bronze Arrow is a different lettuce from the Bronze Arrowhead that some seed companies still carry. Decades of selecting for bolt-resistance and hardiness have paid off. 300 seeds