Vegetable / Cool season
Vit Mache Corn Salad
Very cool shoulder-season salad beds and winter tunnel edges.
Tender rosettes with mild, nutty salad flavor.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 50
- Germination temperature
- 40-70F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 4 inches
- Row spacing
- 12 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 42 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 14 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 4 inches in-row spacing, 12 inches between rows, and 0.25 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Warm soil delays germination and shortens harvest quality. Keep the seedbed moist during cool germination. Moist, well-drained soil with moderate fertility.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Keep the seedbed moist during cool germination.
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained soil with moderate fertility.
- Watch
- Warm soil delays germination and shortens harvest quality.
- greens
- cool-season
- salad
- containers
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