Anyone Experience w/ Greens called Corn Salad ("Vit")?

[Pamcake]

Anyone Experience w/ Greens called "FIELD SALAD" ..... (or "Corn Salad")

Can anyone tell me what this stuff is like as a survival lettuce/vitamin source?
The seed package says "sweetly flavored oval leaves".

"Like other formerly foraged greens, corn salad has many nutrients, including three times as much vitamin C as lettuce, beta-carotene, B6, B9, vitamin E, and omega-3 fatty acids. It is best if gathered before flowers appear." (wikipedia)
"It is also called Lewiston cornsalad, lamb's lettuce, fetticus, field salad, mâche, feldsalat, nut lettuce and rapunzel." (wiki)

Supposed to be one of the earliest greens available in the wild too, and the seed package says "extremely cold tolerant". Sure looks like a weed to me!

I planted some in a container today & will give it a try, but was wondering if any advance-warnings were available from my INGO colleagues!

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

Sorry, Pami, never heard of it. Good luck!

 

[stilllearning09]

I didn't recognize it as corn salad, but when I read your post I did recognize the name. Yep, it started as a weed, but according to my Mother, they harvested this in open fields for salad greens during the depression.

 

[Pamcake]

I didn't recognize it as corn salad, but when I read your post I did recognize the name.

Just curious, which name(s) did you recognize?

 

[stilllearning09]

Just curious, which name(s) did you recognize?

Mom called it field salad.

 

[1946]

Pamcake, please keep this thread updated when you get your first harvest.
Would like to know what you think of taste, etc.

 

[longbow]

my goats ate it before I had a chance last year.....so I can't help.

 

[Pamcake]

Well, no sprouts yet, but the label says "7-10 days" so I wait with baited breath...

 

[caneman]

The wife planted 4X4 raised bed of it last year. I think this year we mighr double it. It mixes well with other greens for summer salads.

 

[Pamcake]

"Crop Failure"

OK, Corn Salad Crop Failure!

Trying it again, with a control planting in the other half (a Red Butterhead Lettuce).
This time, on a seedling heater mat. Maybe our balmy 63-degree thermostat setting was just intolerable, vs. the seed was bad (2009). We'll see...

 

[bwframe]

OK, Corn Salad Crop Failure!

I like to germinate questionable seed in a damp paper towel kept in a warm location. It's easy to turn back the cover to check daily.

Definitely keep us posted on the taste results.

Oops- just saw your other post on just this.