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Asda have been selling a lettuce called "Lazy Lettuce". It's loose leafed with a dense growth of thin leaves that snap easily from the base. Anyone know what variety this might be. I love it for it's ease of preparation.

salad bowl perhaps? You can do that with any lettuce, I just snip the rib with scissors

There is a heritage variety called 'Fat Lazy Blonde', but I'm guessing this will be a bog standard fast growing cut and come again type with the title just referring to the ease of use.

I love that name ;D, where do they get them from?

I got a packet of fat lazy blonde in France (Grosse Blonde Paresseuse) and it was a wonderful lettuce, soft and blowsy and large and pale with a good heart. I would always buy it again if I could find it. It would not be easy to pick separate leaves because they are all overlapping.

Quote from: artichoke on May 29, 2012, 04:10:09
I got a packet of fat lazy blonde in France (Grosse Blonde Paresseuse) and it was a wonderful lettuce, soft and blowsy and large and pale with a good heart. I would always buy it again if I could find it. It would not be easy to pick separate leaves because they are all overlapping.

http://www.simpsonsseeds.co.uk/shop/Roundhead_Lettuce.html
Is it this one?

Artichoke, I think I might have a few of those left, although I couldn't say for sure without looking in my seedbox. Would you like a few? French lettuce rocks!!!

Oh and I think it's called a Paresseuse (lazy) because it's a slow bolter. It tends to be good in warmer weather.

I do like knowing the possible explanation for the names. I wonder how Nuns belly button came about ;) ;D.

Antipodes, that is an extremely kind offer, thank you, but I have now found that Etty's seeds have it, and I rather like ordering from them (quirky company).

I agree that they stand quietly for a long time before reaching for the sky, and even then the leaves stay soft and sweet and can be picked off the stem. I tried to save seed, but downpours at the time stopped them from maturing and drying out, I think.

Squash64 , thanks, yes, that's the one, highly recommended by me, anyway. But I am going for Etty's.....

Grannyjanny I have been trying to grow Drunken Woman for years without sucess :-)

Quote from: grannyjanny on May 28, 2012, 15:40:40
I love that name ;D, where do they get them from?

Yes, but it is most likely just a descriptive name?  Blonde as in light coloured.  Is this a lettuce that is light green and/or has white seeds?  Lazy - thanks for the explanation.  Fat refers to the shape.

Sounds a nice variety to grow.

On the other hand - it could be revenge from the males of the species - you make me eat this stuff as part of a 'healthy eating' drive, and I will give it a derogatory female name ;D  Drunken woman indeed!

Goes well in a salad with bored tomato and sloth cucumber

Some plants seem to have pretty names! Squash and tomatoes in particular. goodlife sent me seeds of a tomato called "Nebraska Wedding" ! how on earth can that have a name like this? They are growing well so I am curious to put a fruit to the name!!!