Corn salad Frost
Corn salad Frost
Valerianella locusta Frost
Corn salad, lamb's lettuce
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Description
The Organic Frost Lamb's Lettuce is a high-performance variety for winter production. Vigorous and upright, with rapid growth in cold conditions, it produces beautiful clumps with dark green, wide, and rounded leaves. Successive sowings promise consumption throughout the winter. This highly productive variety can be sown from October to February and harvested from November to March. Seeds from Organic Agriculture.
Lamb's Lettuce, also known as Corn Salad, is a small salad with rounded leaves grouped in rosettes. It is THE salad for autumn and winter, even though some varieties known as "all-season" can be sown and harvested throughout the year. Varieties with larger seeds have larger leaves but are less resistant to cold than those with smaller seeds.
Lamb's Lettuce belongs to the Caprifoliaceae family (like Honeysuckle) and grows wild throughout Europe, to the point that it is sometimes considered a "weed".
This small salad is mainly consumed raw, alone or accompanied, for example, with kiwi and avocado or beetroot, but can also be cooked, like spinach. Its nutritional value is remarkable, it is low in calories but particularly rich in vitamin C (three times more than Lettuce), vitamin E, and beta-carotene.
Cultivating Lamb's Lettuce is easy, but the sowing must be done in firm soil, and it is important to ensure that it remains moist.
Harvest: Lamb's Lettuce is harvested as needed by cutting the rosette just above the collar using a knife.
Storage: It can be stored for a few days in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator.
Gardener's tip: If you belong to the category of gardeners who tolerate a little disorder, even in the vegetable garden, don't hesitate to let some rosettes go to seed in the spring. They will self-sow and provide you with some greenery on your plate without any cost or effort!
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Botanical data
Valerianella
locusta
Frost
Caprifoliaceae
Corn salad, lamb's lettuce
Western Europe
Annual
Planting and care
Sowing:
The germination of Lamb's Lettuce occurs at a temperature of about 14°C. It takes approximately 10 days for the seedlings to emerge.
Sowing is done from mid-July to the end of August for varieties with large leaves (autumn harvest) and from mid-August to mid-October for smaller and hardy varieties (harvest until the end of winter).
On firm soil, not tilled, just raked, draw furrows spaced 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8in) apart, with a depth of one centimeter. Sow in rows, spacing the seeds 0.5 to 1 cm (0in) apart, cover with a little fine soil and firm down the sowing with the back of a rake. Keep the soil moist during germination. Lamb's Lettuce is preferably sown in shade or partial shade. If this is not possible, cover your sowing with a light mulch like a very thin layer of grass to retain moisture until the arrival of autumn rains.
Sowing can also be done by broadcasting, using a dose of 5 to 7 grams (12 grams for varieties with larger seeds) per 10 m².
Cultivation:
Lamb's Lettuce is not demanding and does not require any prior fertilization. Varieties intended for winter crops are hardy, but up to a certain point... During severe winters, remember to protect them from extreme cold by covering them with a winter fleece or a layer of straw.
It is a salad that grows very well in a cold greenhouse or under a nantais tunnel.
As for companion planting, Lamb's Lettuce is a good neighbor. You can sow it at the base of many vegetables and interplant it between rows of Endive, Spinach, Radish...
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc.)
It will vary according to where you live:- In zones 9 to 10 (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), flowering will occur about 2 to 4 weeks earlier.
- In zones 6 to 7 (Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and lower mountainous regions), flowering will be delayed by 2 to 3 weeks.
- In zone 5 (Central Europe, Scandinavia), blooming will be delayed by 3 to 5 weeks.
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands).
It will vary according to where you live:
- In Mediterranean zones (Marseille, Madrid, Milan, etc.), autumn and winter are the best planting periods.
- In continental zones (Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, etc.), delay planting by 2 to 3 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 2 to 4 weeks in autumn.
- In mountainous regions (the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, etc.), it is best to plant in late spring (May-June) or late summer (August-September).
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
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