CORNSALAD Large Dutch - VALERIANELLA locusta

Cornsalad is also known as Mache and Lambs Lettuce. This variety grows as a fine-textured low growing plant that produces soft and tender spoon-shaped greens with a delicate nutty flavour.

If allowed to go to flower, the tiny white flowers attract beneficial insects.

Grow notes:

Prefers moist fertile well-drained soil but grows well in almost any garden soil in a sunny position.

Tropical: Not Recommended
Temperate: Spring or Autumn
Cool: Spring

Sow: 6 mm deep
Sow direct in shallow drills or grow in trays and transplant when 5-6 cm tall weeks.
Plant space: 15 cm
Row Space: 15 cm
Germination: 7-10 days
Maturity: 5-8 weeks