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
Contributed by @Ursu
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Full sun to partial shade
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Occasional watering
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Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Moist and free draining
Common name
Lamb's Lettuce
Latin name
Valerianella locusta
type
Vegetable
family
Caprifoliaceae
ph
5.8 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When to harvest
full grown dimensions
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