**ARK Heirloom**

This might be our favorite lettuce we grow here at Uprising and one that I think deserves a better look from market growers. Admires produces VERY large blocky dense green heads blushed with just the right amount of red to the tips of the leaves. Extremely uniform it holds up well to packing and I think has potential as a market red leaf variety. Some classify it as a butterhead which I don't think is entirely right, but it will form a loose head if left to full maturity. Crunchy texture almost akin to a romaine. Presented to the Seed Saver Exchange in 1977 by 90 yr. old Cloe Lowrey, granddaughter to civil war veteran George Admire (b.1822).
55 days.
Packet: 1g (~800 seeds), additional bulk sizes.

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