Corn Salad Elan: Cultivate a lush addition to your winter garden with the Corn Salad elan. This variety features dark green, medium-sized, oval-shaped leaves on long stems, offering both aesthetic appeal and culinary versatility. Known for its good health and resistance, this corn salad thrives in open ground over the winter months, making it an excellent choice for cold-weather gardening.
Key Features:
Leaf Characteristics: Dark green, oval-shaped leaves with long stems, perfect for a variety of dishes.
Health and Resistance: Exhibits robust health and good resistance to common pests and diseases.
Cultivation: Ideally suited for overwintering in open ground, ensuring a continuous harvest even in cooler temperatures.
Direct sowing: greenhouse: end of September till end of October open ground: end of July till mid of September
Note: Every lot of corn salad seeds is tested for seed borne diseases Phoma and Peronospora val. (downy mildew). If spores are discovered, the effected lot is given warm water treatment. This ensures the destruction of infective spores. However we cannot guarantee that a corn salad crop grown from our seeds will not be infested with mildew and Phoma. Infections like these may have different causes such as cultivation methods, soil or climate conditions.
Planting distance: direct sowing ca. 10-30 x 1 cm planting ca. 10 x 10 cm
Amount of seed needed: ca. 150 g/a; 80-100 seeds per running metre
Seed germination temperature: 10-15 °C
Raise in seed bed: for greenhouse: beginning of September till January for planting out from beginning of October till mid of March
Sowing depth: ca. 1 cm
Origin
Breeder: b-d EHZ
Multiplier: De Beersche Hoeve / René Groenen und Gineke de Graaf, Saatzucht Rose
Cerifications: Demeter
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