Price range: £1.85 through £109.00
Vigorous variety for spring and autumn crops as well as overwintering. Deliciously tender glossy leaves with a mild minty flavour.
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Corn Salad: Vit
Valerianella locusta
Approx. 800 seeds per gram
Corn Salad, also known as Lamb’s Lettuce, is a very useful and hardy salad plant. It has soft green leaves with a nutty flavour.
It is an annual and can withstand very low temperatures so can be grown outside in the garden with little protection. It has a low growing habit.
It has long been recorded as being cultivated as a valuable winter salad containing vitamin C, beta-carotene, B6, iron, and potassium. It is pretty amazing to be able to pick nutritious green salad from your garden during the winter months.
Vit is a vigorous variety for spring and autumn crops as well as over-wintering. It is dark green in colour with clearly veined leaves and has a distinct minty taste. Vit is very popular amongst professional market-gardeners and has resistance to powdery mildew. It can be sown under-cover in September and October, for early spring use.
How to grow:
Sow directly into well-prepared ground by broadcasting the seed and raking it over gently. Sow any time from July until October.
Thin plants as they grow to 10-15 cm apart.
Harvest from September until March taking single leaves or the whole plant.
Pests and diseases:
Corn salad suffers very little from pests or diseases. Young plants can be damaged by slugs and powdery mildew can cause problems in certain conditions.
How to cook:
Add to mixes of winter salads combining with Claytonia, oriental leaves and winter lettuce. The mild flavour contrasts nicely with the hotter, spicy oriental leaves.