Corn Salad

Valerianella locusta

Also known as Lamb’s lettuce or Mâche, Miners Lettace, Field Salad, Field Greens, Rapunzel (Germany), Nut Lettuce

Traditionally eaten by peasants

Jean Baptiste de la Quintinie royal gardener fet to King Louis XIV in 17th C and it was no longer considered poor people food.

Thomas Jefferson grew was a fan and grewit in his personal garden

Grown extensively throught Europe

High levels of vitamin C Beta cartine, iron, potassium, omega 3 B6 and B9

Lambs lettuce because the leaves are shapped like a lambs tongue

Can be used as a Microgreen

Does not store so picka nd eat

Can grow in both sun and shade

Prefers cool soils

Can be used in salad of cooked like spinach

Grows best in cool weather

Foliage becomes bitter if the plants go to seed

Harvest as required

Fast growing

Prefers cool soils. Grows in sun or shade

Ideal for pots

Easy to grow

Harvest – leaves can be picked individually or whole thing

Redily self seeds

Microgreen – does not keep well so eat soon after picking

Use as for lettuce

Storing harvested [name]:Seed Saving:

Feeding:

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Others: Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Iron, Sulphur, Boron