French Corn Salad Organic Seeds (Valerianella locusta) Gourmet mâche with tender, nutty leaves for cool-season salads and repeats

Minimum: 200+ Seeds

Elevate your garden and your plate with French Corn Salad, the classic gourmet green that brings delicate flavor, tender texture, and endless culinary possibilities. Perfect for home gardeners, chefs, seed collectors, and small-scale farmers, this heirloom leafy green thrives in cool-season gardens, offering repeated harvests that keep your salads fresh, vibrant, and irresistibly nutty.

Why French Corn Salad Stands Out:
French Corn Salad, also called mâche or lamb’s lettuce, is prized in European kitchens for its tender, spoon-shaped leaves and subtly sweet, nutty flavor. It forms tight, rosette-like heads and grows quickly in cool weather, making it an ideal early spring or fall crop. Its compact habit allows for dense planting, continuous harvesting, and a steady supply of gourmet greens straight from your garden. French Corn Salad is as beautiful as it is flavorful, adding a fresh, vibrant green to winter and spring salads, sandwiches, and side dishes.

Key Features:
🌱 Tender, Nutty Leaves – Perfect for fresh salads, sandwiches, and garnishes
🍃 Continuous Harvest – Cut-and-come-again growth ensures weeks of fresh greens
🥗 Cool-Season Favorite – Thrives in spring and fall gardens, hardy in light frost
🌿 Compact Rosettes – Ideal for small spaces, containers, and raised beds
🌾 Organic, Open-Pollinated – Non-GMO, ideal for seed saving and sustainable gardening
🐝 Pollinator-Friendly – Provides early flowers for beneficial insects in your garden

Cultural & Culinary Significance:
French Corn Salad has been a gourmet staple in French and European cuisine for centuries. Known for its delicate flavor and tender texture, it was traditionally enjoyed fresh from the garden or lightly dressed with oil and vinegar. As a cool-season green, it fills a niche where other salad crops struggle, bringing early and late-season vitality to the kitchen garden. Its heirloom status means you’re growing a plant with history, flavor, and proven resilience.

Growing Tips for Success:

• Sowing: Direct sow outdoors 4–6 weeks before the last frost or in late summer for fall harvests

• Soil: Prefers fertile, well-draining soil rich in organic matter

• Sun: Full sun to partial shade; tolerates mild shade in warmer climates

• Spacing: Sow ½ inch deep, 1 inch apart in rows 8–12 inches apart; thin seedlings for better rosettes

• Watering: Keep soil consistently moist for tender, sweet leaves

• Days to Harvest: 40–50 days for baby leaves, 60 days for full rosettes

• Temperature: Performs best in cool weather; tolerates light frost for extended harvest

• Succession Planting: Sow every 2–3 weeks for continuous salad supply

Why Grow French Corn Salad?
🥗 Home Gardeners & Salad Lovers: Fresh, gourmet greens right outside your door
👩🍳 Chefs & Culinary Enthusiasts: Add tender, nutty flavor to dishes year-round
🧑🌾 Seed Collectors & Heirloom Enthusiasts: Preserve a classic European green in your collection
🌿 Small-Space & Container Gardeners: Compact growth ideal for pots, raised beds, and window boxes

How to Enjoy French Corn Salad:
🍴 Harvest baby leaves for tender, delicate salads
🥗 Use full rosettes as a gourmet addition to sandwiches or side dishes
🌱 Mix with other cool-season greens for diverse textures and flavors
🧺 Store lightly in the fridge for up to a week, enjoying garden-fresh quality daily

Plant French Corn Salad Organic Seeds and savor the joy of endless, tender, nutty greens. Imagine cutting rosettes of rich green leaves straight from your garden, their subtle flavor elevating every meal. From crisp autumn salads to springtime gourmet plates, French Corn Salad brings taste, beauty, and heirloom charm to your table.

Grow your own French Corn Salad today and experience the tender, nutty flavor and endless harvests of this timeless gourmet green.