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How to grow Lamb's Lettuce (Corn Salad)
Valerianella locusta
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
Little rosettes of mild, nutty leaves that grow through the winter, when fresh salad is hard to find. Also sown in spring.
At a glance: Sow early April to mid May, harvest from late May.
When to sow, plant and harvest
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Sow outdoors
Harvest
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Lamb's Lettuce (Corn Salad): what it needs
- Light
- Part shade · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water regularly in dry weather
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 10 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- A general feed before sowing or planting
- Harvest
- About 60 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 4–9
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- Early April – mid May · 2 weeks before the last spring frost
Sow Seeds Outdoors
Sow thinly in drills where they are to grow.
Or: Sow Outdoors (Autumn) (Early August – mid September · 11 weeks before the first autumn frost)
- 7–14 days after “Sow Seeds Outdoors” · Early April – mid April
Check Germination
Seedlings should appear in 7–14 days. If sown outdoors, thin to 10 cm apart when big enough to handle.
- 46–67 days after “Check Germination” · Late May – mid June
Start Harvesting
Cut whole rosettes, or pick a few leaves from each plant.
- 90–120 days after “Start Harvesting” · Late August – late September
Finish and Clear
Clear the remains to the compost heap once cropping ends.
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