Buttercrunch Lettuce

Lactuca sativa 'Buttercrunch'

vegetable

Buttercrunch is a popular butterhead lettuce forming a loose rosette of soft, buttery green leaves around a tender, blanched heart, with a sweet, mild flavor and a crisp center. An award-winning variety prized for tolerating heat better than most butterheads, it is slower to bolt and turn bitter, and it matures in about 55 to 65 days.

✅ Plant alongside

Good neighbors that attract beneficial insects or deter pests

• Carrots — Different root depths use bed space efficiently
• Sweet Alyssum — Low groundcover that attracts aphid-eating hoverflies
• Chives — Onion scent helps deter aphids
• Radishes — Fast trap crop that lures flea beetles away

❌ Keep away from

🛡️ Pest & disease prevention

Proactive ways to stop trouble before it starts — tap a name with an arrow for its full guide

• Aphids →

  Interplant alyssum and herbs to draw hoverflies and lacewings; inspect leaf undersides

• Slugs →

  Water in the morning so beds dry by night; set traps; hand-pick after dark

• Flea beetles →

  Use row cover over seedlings

🌾 Harvest & storage

Pick outer leaves as needed cut-and-come-again, or cut the whole head at the base once it has formed a full, loose rosette, harvesting in the cool of the morning. Harvest before the plant sends up a flower stalk, after which the leaves turn bitter and the sap milky.

🥗 Nutrition & benefits

Butterhead lettuce is very low in calories and a good source of vitamins A and K, with folate and small amounts of vitamin C, and its tender leaves are more nutritious than crisphead types.