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Wild Corn Salad (Valerianella locusta)
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in stockWild corn salad can be cultivated all year round. However, it's appreciated especially as a winter salad as it survives frosts down to -15°C and can be harvested all winter long. Its high vitamin C content has already been appreciated in so long, especially during the winter months. Therefore, the wild corn salad is also rich in vitamin B6 and folate, as well as in iron and potassium. The delicate leaf rosettes are cut near-ground and prepared well-washed as a salad.
Wild corn salad sows itself and is perfectly suitable as a ground-covering nurse crop. It can also be harvested brilliantly as a balcony vegetable in pods.
Seeds: 1000 Wild Corn Salad seeds
Details: Plant description & care
Sowing & cultivation
- Sowing period: Possible all year round at temperatures between +5-28°C. Outdoors, spring sowing commonly in March to mid-April. Autumn and winter sowing: From mid-July to the end of October.
- Sowing depth: 0.5cm, broadcast in rows
- Ideal germination temperature: 16-18°C Germination period: 8-21 days, depending on time of sowing.
- Row spacing: 10-30cm
- Planting distance: 8cm
- Location: Preferably sunny
- Soil: Prefers calcareous, sandy, loamy soils, is very salt-sensitive
- Care: Needs little care and fertilization, occasional hoeing and consistent moisture are very beneficial. As it is a light-feeder, it doesn't need to be fertilized. Wild corn salad is self-tolerant and can grow in the same place for a longer period. With threatening black frosts, it's very rewarding to cover the plants with brushwood or doubled fleece.
- Harvest: Depending on the time of sowing, it can be harvested after 6-12 weeks. If the plant should grow on, the heart has to remain. Otherwise, it's cut very near-ground.
- Family: Valerian family (Valerianaceae)
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- Item number
- VAL02
- Brand
- Magic Garden Seeds
- Group:
- Seeds
- Seed quantity:
- 1,000 Pcs.
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