Tom Thumb Lettuce

Love Love Love! Cute little sweet yummy heads, planted under Brussels sprouts to shade from heat, have not bolted or become bitter where all my other lettuces already are. Add a little arugula and it makes the most delicious salad ever. Buying more seeds!

The tom thumb is excellent for growing between rows in my raised beds. The heads are sweet, perfect sized and compact. I highly recommend this variety for container gardening or raised beds for those who have limited space. It helped fill up gaps between rows in my garden. Tastes very sweet and doesn't get bitter in the heat of the summer because it is smaller and shaded in the rows. An awesome find and I plan on growing every year.

Grows very quickly, doesn't bolt until the hot, hot summer heat when I planted them in spring. Adds great texture and dimension to dishes and salads, often the defining difference between an average and phenomenal salad. Also not sensitive to being yanked out and replanted elsewhere, and very resistant to lots of bugs but I did get a few holes on the outer leaves from slugs and I had to check daily that ear-wigs weren't hidden in the wrinkles and layers of the head just in case - their feces cause a bigger problem to these than their eating did, for me. Some days I've eaten an entire head of Tom Thumb with dinner, but when I do I yank the whole plant, cut it just above the root so the head stays together, and replanted the root for seconds, which comes in leafy instead of compact.

I am super amazed at how fast these sprout and grow. Will buy again.

Great flavor! Grows back to use again. We were sad that the 2nd planting did not produce a single plant (likely my error) and now miss out on this great salad addition. Prone to wilting after cutting and leaves dying out in between cuttings. Overall, plan to plant this yummy lettuce again with some changes in how/where I plant.