Valérianacées • Valerianella locusta

Organic Green Lamb's Lettuce

"A small, mild salad for cool days, discreet yet true to the autumn vegetable garden."

$4.49

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Lamb's lettuce, also known as corn salad or lamb's lettuce, is a small salad green native to Europe and Western Asia. It grows wild in fields and wastelands before becoming a common vegetable in gardens. The term " Green Lamb 's Lettuce" refers to varieties with compact rosettes and tender green leaves, well-suited to late summer and autumn sowing in gardens with cooler climates.

Its low-growing rosettes easily weave their way between other crops, carpeting the ground with a perennial ground cover for the cooler months. Its modest and steady growth makes it an ideal companion for kitchen gardens that prioritize continuous harvests. Mild in flavor and cold-hardy, it consistently accompanies the cycle of the seasons, offering gardeners a comforting salad green as the days grow shorter.

  • Growing climate: Cool season
  • Sowing difficulty level: Easy
  • Care required: Occasional
  • Growth: Slow growth

Annotation: Typical autumn and late winter crop in temperate climates; tolerates cold well but does not tolerate summer heat well.

Lamb's lettuce is especially prized as a fresh, seasonal green salad. Its tender, slightly fleshy leaves are eaten raw, in whole rosettes, often simply dressed with a mild oil and a splash of vinegar or lemon juice. It pairs well with apples, hazelnuts, cooked beets, fresh cheeses, or hard-boiled eggs.

Traditionally, in several regions of Europe, lamb's lettuce is one of the first salads to appear on the table at the end of winter, thanks to its good resistance to cold. It can also be briefly steamed or added at the end of cooking to soups to best preserve its texture.

Organic Green Lamb's Lettuce

$4.49

$4.49

écoumene seeding advice

Seeding type

Outdoor seeding

Germination time

5-12 jours

Germination temperature

5° to 22° Celsius

Sowing depth

Sowing at a depth of 5 mm

Transplantation

Difficult Transplantation

Technical

Broadcast seeding

Growing conditions

Number of days to maturity

Harvest at ± 45 days

Hardiness zone

Zone-3b

Distance between plants

10 cm

Distance between rows

20 cm

Optimal brightness

Sun plant that tolerates light shade

Soil texture

Heavy (clay) soil

Soil moisture

Cool, well-drained soil

Soil fertility

Plant not very demanding in bacteria-dominant compost

optimal soil pH

Low acidic pH

Average plant height

45 cm

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