Corn Salad Lambs Lettuce Mache

Also known as Lamb’s Lettuce, Fetticus or mache, Dutch Corn Salad is an easy to grow, delicious alternative to lettuce for salads.  The large leaves can be used raw in salads, as a herb for flavouring, or cooked like spinach. Corn Salad is a hardy plant, but it doesn’t do well in very hot weather and is best grown using successive plantings throughout the year.  In hot summers, plant in areas where shade is present in the afternoon. Corn Salad can survive cold weather, even freezing, so plant in August for fall and winter harvest. Plants can grow 5 – 10cm tall.