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Growing Corn Salad, also Lamb's lettuce or Mache

(Valerianella locusta)

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    P             P    

(Best months for planting Corn Salad in USA - Zone 5a regions)

P = Plant direct in garden where they are to grow.


  • Easy to grow. Sow in garden. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed. Best planted at soil temperatures between 50°F and 68°F. (Show °C/cm)
  • Space plants: 4 - 6 inches apart
  • Harvest in 5-8 weeks.
  • Compatible with: Onions
  • Young corn salad

Like lettuce in appearance and use, Lamb's lettuce is hardier and can stand light frosts.

Not suitable for growing in warm areas.

Grow quickly with a well enriched soil and keep watered - adding nitrogen every two weeks.

Culinary hints - cooking and eating Corn Salad

Pick individual leaves or harvest the whole plant as required


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