Growing Corn Salad, also Lamb's lettuce or Mache

Valerianella locusta : Caprifoliaceae / the honeysuckle family

Jan F M A M J J A S O N Dec
      P P              

(Best months for growing Corn Salad in New Zealand - cool/mountain regions)

  • P = Sow seed
  • Easy to grow. Sow in garden. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed. Best planted at soil temperatures between 10°C and 20°C. (Show °F/in)
  • Space plants: 10 - 15 cm apart
  • Harvest in 5-8 weeks.
  • Compatible with (can grow beside): Onions

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28 Apr 16, nick durrant (Australia - temperate climate)
I got mine from Eden seeds.
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02 Apr 16, Dina Lainez (Australia - temperate climate)
Try BW
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10 Mar 14, Graham Edwards (Australia - temperate climate)
Wikipedia calls cornsalad Valerianella locusta, but the plants I bought in Bunnings are labelled Cornsalad Beta vulgaris. The description says it's a chard. The plants sure look the same and describe the same in other details. So what are we talking about and who's right ? :-)
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09 Jun 17, Sarah (Australia - temperate climate)
Beta vulgaris is silver beet, not corn salad.
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08 Dec 13, sylvia newman (Australia - temperate climate)
Where can I buy mache lettuce seeds (Lambs lettuce) in Perth
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08 Jul 13, Jurie Willemse (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)
We would like to knoe where can we get some of this seedlings of the corn sald.
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21 Nov 12, Andy Grobler (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate)
is it possible to buy seeds lambs lettuce anywhere in South Africa?
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01 Jul 11, SK (Australia - temperate climate)
where can I get the seedligns or young plants so I can grow them myself?? We are in Perth close to the ocean but were originally from Switzerladn where we love this salad!! Thanks and till soon, SK
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18 Jul 13, Yvonne Muller (Australia - temperate climate)
Just bought some seeds at Big W at Whitfords!
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24 Feb 12, James (Australia - temperate climate)
Order from eden seeds, they will post to you.
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Beta vulgaris is silver beet, not corn salad.

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