Valerianella locusta
Corn salad
Common names: Lamb's lettuce, Mache
Photo: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Description
Corn salad is the most valuable winter vegetable in the home garden and defies even hard frost. You harvest its small, nutty-tasting rosettes fresh when hardly anything else grows. Cultivars such as ‘Vit’ are robust and slow to bolt.
Care instructions
Sow it from August (week 33) until October, broadcast or in rows, on the cleared bed. Press the seed down well and keep it moist until germination. In winter you hardly need to water; cut the rosettes with a knife just above the ground, then they often flush again.
Soil & site
Soil pH
Soil type
loamy, humus-rich, well-drained, lime-loving, nutrient-rich
Feeding
Light feeder
Months
Jul–Aug
Propagation
Methods
- From seed
Companion planting
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From the magazine
Sowing lamb's lettuce in autumn: the gap-filler for the winter bed
Lamb's lettuce takes over the empty beds from late summer and supplies fresh, nutty greens into spring. The most common mistake is sowing too early and too warm. Here is how the cold germinator sprouts and how you harvest all winter.
Harvesting Winter Vegetables: Fresh from the Frost
Kale, Brussels sprouts, corn salad and parsnip stand in the bed all winter and taste even sweeter after frost. Here is how to harvest fresh from the snow without the leaves turning to mush.
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