Cornsalad (Valeriana)

Good day dear Hive community, first of all I would like to wish you all a budding day and hope you have a positive weekend! Today I would like to bring you a plant a little closer and hope you can expand your knowledge.

Here you can see Cornsalad, which is also known under the scientific name Valerianella and originally comes from North Africa and Europe. The traces can probably even be traced back to the Neolithic period, where it was already an important food source, but as a cultivated plant it has only been known for about a hundred years. Before that, it was still considered a pest plant and nowadays it is cultivated in many places and the distribution area has greatly expanded and ranges from Europe, Asia to North or South America and from an economic point of view this salad variety makes up a large part of the industrial cultivation. It is an important vegetable and medicinal plant and the special thing is that it can be harvested even during the winter months, when most other salad varieties have already faded. Especially the high content of nutrients such as vitamin C is particularly important during these season to stabilize the immune system and it also contains oils such as valerian oil, which can have a calming effect. Valeriana is extremely easy to care for and robust and if you want to harvest in spring, you should sow the seeds as early as September and it grows extremely fast, but if the temperatures drop too much, the growth stops until it gets warmer again. And it is suitable for anyone who wants to harvest salad even in winter.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about nature! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens!