Buttercrunch Lettuce — Butterhead lettuce at Wild Geese Gardens

Butterhead lettuce

Buttercrunch Lettuce

A tender, slow-to-bolt butterhead that thrives in our cool spring and fall.

  • part shade
  • moderate
  • Plant early spring and again late summer; cool-season
  • $3–$6

Buttercrunch is the lettuce we steer new gardeners toward: easy, forgiving, and delicious, with soft, sweet leaves forming a loose buttery head. It's a cool-season crop, so it's one of the first things you can plant — well before the late-May frost — and it can go in again in late summer for a fall harvest. It's noticeably slower to bolt (turn bitter) than many lettuces when the weather warms, especially with a little afternoon shade and steady water. Pick outer leaves as you need them and the plant keeps giving for weeks.

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Early Girl Tomato — Indeterminate slicing tomato
Out of season

Early Girl Tomato

Indeterminate slicing tomato

A dependable early slicer that beats Montana's short season with full-size fruit in about 50–60 days.

  • full sun
  • moderate
  • Plant out late May; harvest mid-to-late summer
$4–$7
Sub-Arctic Plenty Tomato — Determinate tomato
Out of season

Sub-Arctic Plenty Tomato

Determinate tomato

One of the earliest, most cold-tolerant tomatoes there is — bred for exactly our kind of summer.

  • full sun
  • moderate
  • Plant out late May; very early harvest
$4–$7
King of the North Bell Pepper — Bell pepper
In season

King of the North Bell Pepper

Bell pepper

A short-season bell pepper that actually ripens to red in our cool summers.

  • full sun
  • moderate
  • Plant out early June; harvest late summer
$4–$7