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Product ID: 419
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(Valerianella locusta)
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Versatile variety for growing year-round.
A vigorous, mildew-resistant variety for spring and fall crops, as well as for overwintering. Long, oval, glossy green leaves form a heavy bunch with a tender, flowery, minty flavor. Mini: 650 seeds.
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Plant Cycle: (A)
Days to Maturity or Bloom: 50
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Diseases Explained:
No disease information found.
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Growing Information:
CULTURE: Mache prefers cool weather. For early spring and fall crop; winter harvest where temperatures aren't severe, and in cold greenhouses. Plant Sept./Oct. for spring crop (at same time overwintering spinach is sown); early spring for late spring crop. Sow about 1" apart in a solid bed, or for mechanical cultivation, in strips 4" wide in rows 18" apart. Germinates slowly in 10-14 days. Thin to 2" apart (use thinnings as "baby mache"). Harvest entire rosette by pinching off at the root when 2 1/2" tall. Mache is bolt-resistant, but its flavor declines when overmature. It can also be raised to maturity in an ordinary flat. AVG. DIRECT SEEDING RATE: 750'/oz., 5 1/4 lb./acre at 36 seeds/ft. in rows 12" apart. Up to double this rate is often used. SEED SPECS: SEEDS/OZ.: 17,000-22,000 (avg. 18,750). MINI: 1 gm. (avg. 650 seeds, sows 20' at 30 seeds/ft.). |
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Cold Tolerant
Variety does well at lower temperatures and may even be frost hardy. |
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Greenhouse
Variety does especially well when started in, or grown in, a greenhouse environment. |
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Salad Mix Ingredient
A mixture of lettuce and greens with different colors, flavors and textures, harvested at a tender, baby, bite-size stage. For fresh salads. |
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