Corn salad Frost

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!