Valerianella locusta
Corn Salad
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Corn Salad (Valerianella locusta) - Description
Valerianella locusta is a small dicot annual plant of the family Valerianaceae. It is an edible salad green with a characteristic nutty flavor, dark green color, and soft texture. Common names include corn salad (or cornsalad), lamb's lettuce, mâche, fetticus, feldsalat, nut lettuce, field salad, Nüssli Salat, and rapunzel. In restaurants that feature French cooking, this salad green may be called doucette or raiponce, as an alternative to mâche, by which it is best known.
Corn Salad (Valerianella locusta) - Growth
Cool-season annual. Grow cornsalad in cool weather for the best flavor. Plants will remain hardy to 5ºF. Bolts in hot weather.
Corn Salad (Valerianella locusta) - Planting
Sow seeds in fall through early spring. Since these plants are rather cold hardy they usually can take the cold winters, but this strategy of sowing the seeds in winter is usually saved for warmer climates. Space rows 8" from each other with the seeds 1" apart.Work in a 1" layer of compost into the soil before planting.
Corn Salad (Valerianella locusta) - Pest
Rare.
Corn Salad (Valerianella locusta) - Interesting facts
The common name of cornsalad is derived from this plant's tendency to grow as a weed in between rows of corn. Luckily for the corn farmer, the Corn Salad can also be harvested and sold.
Corn Salad (Valerianella locusta) - Soil and irrigation
Thrives with regular water and soil that is well-drained. Keep soil evenly moist.
