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Salads may be the epitome of summer, but some salad leaves are hardy enough to provide a harvest even in the depths of winter, at a time when fresh leaves make for a real treat.
4 Super-Hardy Winter Salad Leaves
Our top four winter salad leaves are all reliable, tasty and easy to grow. They can be grown outside in milder climates, or with a little protection in colder ones.In this short video we’ll reveal which salad leaves are best for growing in winter and how to keep them going right through til spring.
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I didn't know! Here in zone 4 I'm hoping to grow some indoors.
We are using single and double row covers to plant an assortment of greens for the winter. We have planted – mache, claytonia, mizuna, tatsoi, spinach, kale (a few varieties), parsley, chives, leeks, carrots, winter lettuces (winter density and rouge d-hiver), and bunching onions. Hoping for a very successful crop!
I will grow mache again this year, good to hear the news about miner’s lettuce! I am not a fan of the cresses.
So helpful!! I’ll be growing these for sure in the hoop house next winter (Nova Scotia Canada!)
Last years seeds of winter purslane didn't take, so I tried again this year… Yes…yes.. this time I've got them growing in a 6" pot. I've not thinned them out or anything. I put the pot in the cold frame, maybe I can get a tiny amount this winter… I didn't know about watercress, thanks for that.
We ate claytonia, field lettuce and spinach from the garden as soups and salads all of last winter, this year I've added endive and landcress to the mix. Self-propagated coriander also seems to do surprisingly well in winter, and you can eat things like dandelion and plantain leaves both raw and cooked. As the vegetable patch is rather large I don't bother all that much much with thinning or weeding or I'd be at it all day every day, but I plant the vegetables close enough to each other to outcompete most weeds and a layer of mulching does the rest. It all seems to sort itself out.
You always give me great food for thought. I'm just ready to get those winter greens seeds ordered so a very timely clip. We were introduced to the wonderful world of mustard greens this last year. Can't wait to plant more for more fabulous salads!
I live in the West Midlands and I have a big glass porch that gets lots of light can I grow spinach or salads in the winter in pots
Miners' Lettuce is one of the easiest things I've ever grown and it's a hit with kids! I grow it in a raised bed with a low tunnel on top, venting it on days when temperatures are expected over 60 farenheit. Large harvests begin in March and last through mid-May, when I take it out to plant my summer garden. It grows so vigorously in April and May that in addition to eating in salads, I harvest it to freeze for later use in smoothies.
Just transplanted Claytonia to my new hoop house. In our cold zone 4 garden I am hopeful I will get a harvest.
Love the videos. They are very helpful and informative. I just need to adjust a bit for my Ontario, Canada garden.
I started growing in pots in my garden for crops like this. Our adorable garden rabbits seem to avoid them in the pots but devour everything planted in the ground,
This sound great but I can't find seeds. Any suggestions? Also, am I too late to plant in my winter garden this year? I'm in zone 8 in western WA .
Not growing any of these (I'm in zone 6), but I am trying beets, Collard Greens, and kale. It might be winter, but hope springs eternal!
I live in Alsace, in France. Can anyone help me with the French, or German, names for these seeds? I can get mache, but the others are a mystery. This is exactly what I need to get organised for next winter. Many thanks.
LOL I don't plan on growing them, no, as other than water cress I have never heard of any of them lol – and I reckon it was a bit of a cheat to have two cress' in the 4 😉
This winter i have mustard, turnips, rutabaga, brussel sprouts and spinach. All the leaves are edible and delicious. I live in a downtown and have a 600 square ft organic garden. I grow plenty for neighbors and friends.
definitely going to try these. is it possible to grow either of them on pots inside a small greenhouse that's I plan to keep the temps above freezing but it warms considerable some days
1. Mache/Lamb's Lettuce
2. Land Cress/American Cress
3. Claytonia/Miner's Lettuce
4. Watercress
Claytonia self seeds easily and comes up year after year
You have helped me very much. I am going to plant all 4 of these greens… I am also growing many types of Kale, mustards, beets (first time this year) endive and escarole : spinach and any other perennials. I am in Tennessee so I may not need my greenhouse or low tunnel. But they are here for spring starting. I make all ,y dogs' food (soup) and they love greens. They are extremely healthy…. the power of organics…. thank you…..
What a helpful & practical video. I grew Miner's lettuce & Landcress with success over the winter in Canberra under frost nets as per the instructions: sowing directly into the ground in autumn. Mache did not take; so I am glad that a tried a variety of salads. Will do it again next winter!
Great to locate a hardy salad variety to grow thru the winter months outside. And also incorporate into early spring harvesting.
I started Winter Density, Lambs Lettuce, Lollo Rossa, All Year Round and Spinach at the end of September and all are growing well. On October 17th l sowed some kale outdoors, Black Magic, Rebor and Afro and just pricked them out. They're still tiny but l think they'll pull through. I grow my veg on a rooftop garden and for the moment snails and slugs are few and far between up there. I live near Paris, France
Hi Ben!!!
Hi from Wales. Brilliant video thank you. I love the free plants they call weeds. I put Japanese Knotweed, plantain herb, dandelion and clover in my morning summer smoothie. And in winter I use dried herbs. But now I will grow lambs lettuce and watercress thanks to you. I have damp soil from the blocked off stream, so it should do well. Thank you very much for the video. I am sharing with my gardening group.
P.S. I hope to create green electricity with invasive plants. Watch this space.
Hi Ben, I’m a first year gardener and my miners lettuce was a success last winter and is flowering now. I thought it had to be left unharvested to self sow but I see you harvested some including the flowers. I just presumed mine would now (in April) be too bitter to eat.
Super, thank you! I'm going to be growing these
Yes! I am setting up containers now for Corn Salad and Hamburg Parsley and Claytonia. ☘️
Lamb's lettuce for me, along with Perpetual Spinach and Chard, will hopefully see us through the winter
I am growing Clatonia, mache, Watercress, land cress lots of lettuce varieties and kale varieties…It’s very exciting