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Lambs Lettuce in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Valerianella locusta

 

Lamb's Lettuce

Lamb's Lettuce is an annual vegetable for use as a salad vegetable. It can be used whole, or leaves picked as baby leaf salad. Lamb's Lettuce does better in cooler months - Spring or Autumn, and is a useful salad leaf even into Winter

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plant Features
  • Lambs Lettuce likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Lambs Lettuce likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Lambs Lettuce is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Lambs Lettuce likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Lamb's Lettuce

Latin name

Valerianella locusta

type

Vegetable

family

Caprifoliaceae

ph

5.8 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Lambs Lettuce likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Lambs Lettuce is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Soil

    Lambs Lettuce likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

  • Water

    Lambs Lettuce likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant
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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Lambs Lettuce is 0.15meters x 0.15meters 0.15 M 0.15 M

Valerianella locusta

Lamb's Lettuce is an annual vegetable for use as a salad vegetable. It can be used whole, or leaves picked as baby leaf salad. Lamb's Lettuce does better in cooler months - Spring or Autumn, and is a useful salad leaf even into Winter


Planting outdoors

From Mid Spring TO Mid Autumn

Plant out to soil that has been enriched with well-rotted manure or compost, in a sheltered position if late in the season

 

Propagation by seed

From Early Spring TO Early Autumn

Sow seeds in damp compost or soil, and keep moist, but not waterlogged. Sow in succession - about every two weeks - to get a continuous crop

 
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