Corn salad Verte de Cambrai seeds

The 'Verte de Cambrai' Lamb's Lettuce is a traditional variety, quite late but very cold-resistant. It produces beautiful, tasty, wide and rounded leaves that you will enjoy eating in the heart of winter. Sowing from August to October for a harvest from autumn to the end of winter.

Lamb's Lettuce, also known as Corn Salad, is a small salad with rounded leaves grouped in rosettes. It is the perfect autumn and winter salad, even though some varieties called "all-season" can be sown and harvested throughout the year. Varieties with large seeds have larger leaves but are less cold-resistant than those with small seeds.

Lamb's Lettuce belongs to the Caprifoliaceae family (like Honeysuckle) and grows wild throughout Europe, to the point where it is sometimes referred to as a "weed."

This small salad is mainly consumed raw, alone or accompanied, for example, by 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 sowing should 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 with a knife.

Storage: It can be stored for a few days in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator.

The gardener's little tip: If you belong to the category of gardeners who, even in the vegetable garden, tolerate a bit of disorder, don't hesitate, in spring, to let a few rosettes go to seed. They will self-sow and provide you with some greenery on your plate at no cost or effort!