4 Super-Hardy Salad Leaves to Grow in Winter
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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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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.
We lived in Germany 10 years and absolutely loved to eat mache, or feld salat as they call it over there (you can buy it in stores like you buy lettuce here). Now we're in Pennsylvania, and grew feld salat last winter. Planted early fall, it began to come up and then went dormant when the frosts came. And froze solid when the the temperature hit zero. But come spring, lo and behold! Up popped the feld salat for an awesome spring crop! I let some go to seed, in hopes it reseeds itself next spring.
It is remarkably hardy isn't it. Mine self-seeded in spring and I have noticed seedlings popping up, so it should work for you too I'm sure. Enjoy them.
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.
Lamb's lettuce for me, along with Perpetual Spinach and Chard, will hopefully see us through the winter
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.
What does it taste like?
Similar to romaine but a little sweeter
It's very mild and very delicious.. and grows just about everywhere this time of year as well! Which means free food! :)
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 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,
Great to locate a hardy salad variety to grow thru the winter months outside. And also incorporate into early spring harvesting.
I live in the desert southwest of the U.S. I garden year around, with the winter being the most interesting season. I have success using low tunnels, and I have just started a greenhouse, small, but functional. I have over summered kale and I am ready to plant spinach, numerous lettuces and bok choi, as my wife is Chinese. we also grow a number of cool season Asian veggies, and western cool season stuff as well. Love my broccoli and cauliflower.
I. LOVE. Miner’s lettuce. I threw it in with a greens mix and couldn’t help just wishing like hell that I’d just made a massive bed of it. It tastes sooo so good!
It's very high in vitamin C too. Apparently it was eaten by the gold rush miners for this reason - to prevent scurvy. This is how it got its name.
Yes! I am setting up containers now for Corn Salad and Hamburg Parsley and Claytonia. ☘️
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!
I am growing Clatonia, mache, Watercress, land cress lots of lettuce varieties and kale varieties...It’s very exciting
Miner's lettuce grows wild in my yard. I let it take over the vegetable bed in winter and then sow in whatever is left.
Fantastic. I really want to get hold of some Lambs Lettuce, and would like to do a trade for one of my plants.
yes, will be growing these winter salads this year!
Great video I'm a new gardener and wasn't sure what to grow near winter but I will give these a go
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.....
Greens are the best!
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 grow several varieties of lettuce in the winter (Central California.) It will go below freezing here, so I keep a stack of comfy blankets handy to cover my beds! It's pretty cute when everything is tucked in.
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.
Suggestion for anyone who doesn’t want something quite so organised, or something that takes a small amount of time to set up and minimal care over growing season.
It may not be as prolific, but I started greens in a used pot from something I’d just planted. Fill up with soil, sprinkle seeds, sprinkle soil, water gently, and continue to keep damp until they are doing a good job growing, then water once every day or two, more often as it gets hotter.
I used this method, and had enough micro-greens for two or three servings of salad about twice a week at the height of growing. I’ll probably see if I can get some to grow now too.
I also used a mix of seeds. Buy greens and micro green seeds, (lettuce, kale, spinach, arugula, beets, cress, miners lettuce, collards, broccoli, etc) and mix them all together in a plastic bag, shake, and then you have a “greens mix”. I’m going to keep track of which greens I love (miners lettuce) and start putting more and more of that one into the mix. 😂
Super, thank you! I'm going to be growing these
Love it. About to plant my seedlings!
Love the energy! Planting garlic, onions, spinach, and kale. Thinking about bunging in some radish and lettuce. The Radish for a quick crop, the lettuce for a slower 'pick leaves' as they come to crop. I have also planted parsley and coriander, and they seem to be doing well.
This video makes me feel accomplished and ahead! I've already planted Cress, Mache, and Purslane. Succession planting this week. This my first time growing these winter greens. I'm excited.
You'll love them I promise!
Thought purslane was a summer crop
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
That's a great way to evade the slugs!
So helpful!! I’ll be growing these for sure in the hoop house next winter (Nova Scotia Canada!)
Our winters here in Central Florida are pretty mild - I'll be growing Paris Island Romaine, Cherokee lettuce, which produces medium size heads of thick, red leaves, and Buttercrunch lettuce.
Such a great and informative video! I had no idea that I could possibly grow miner's lettuce. I'm from Los Angeles and I've only encountered miner's lettuce while going on hikes in our local mountains in the Spring!
I didn't know! Here in zone 4 I'm hoping to grow some indoors.
Thanks for another great video, watching because im looking at what to plant in a few months, when I have some space after summer veg, just bought some winter lettuce seeds to replace the little gem im growing now if it gets too cold for it ❤️
Watch out for our next video (out on Saturday), which offers some more ideas of what to sow in late summer.
Love your style. Great and exciting videos.
Thanks so much!
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.
Thanks so much for sharing the video - it's really appreciated and I'm so pleased our videos are useful. Good look with the green electricity project - how rewarding!
Very informative! I might try some of these leafy greens! Thanks for sharing good information! Watching you from the US and the state of Maryland.
Thank for watching! :-)
I will grow mache again this year, good to hear the news about miner’s lettuce! I am not a fan of the cresses.
I love this channel so much.
Gonna do this so us and the rabbits dont have to go back to store bought greens in the winter.
It'll save you a lot of money too then. They grow really easily it has to be said.
1. Mache/Lamb's Lettuce
2. Land Cress/American Cress
3. Claytonia/Miner's Lettuce
4. Watercress
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
Lovely Thanks
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!
Good luck with all that - sounds like a feast of leaves!
Fantastic video,
I have two 21” x 33” bins under the south facing eves of our house next to the the back door. I haven’t done this before so it’s an experiment. I’m in SE WA state desert zone 7a and we seem to have gone from hot summer to very cold fall and maybe freezing (few days) overnight. My bins are heavy black plastic and the area is surrounded by concrete (the new footing to extend our laundry room) and our house. I am filling it and surrounding with straw bales and my husband is putting a mini cold frame or hoop house over it. I think we’ll have winter greens, some small roots, and brassicas all winter.
Yes, all that straw will provide superb insulation, while the cold frame over the top will trap the heat and keep it there for longer. Sounds like an excellent setup.
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.
What do you mean about having the miners lettuce or the winter purslane pot in the cold frame? Does that mean you have to put it through a cold snap before it'll grow? I can't find any information on this
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.
If you'd like to leave some to self-sow, then do leave a few plants to flower and set seed. Along with mache/corn salad, it's a great salad for self-sowing.
@@GrowVeg Hi Ben, thank you SO much for responding to my comment 😀 Due to your video, I continued to harvest and will definitely be leaving some to self sow 👍 Have a lovely weekend ☺️
Again, another fabulous, informative gardening lesson without waffle. I would like to start converting an area of my vegetable garden into 'food forest', as I have an immense area and am finding it harder to keep weed free as the years pass. Do you have a video or advice for this? I find many of the videos available on UA-cam to be rather technical or a bit fanatical. (Perhaps not quite the right word, but you know what I mean.)
We haven't made a video on forest gardening. It's an incredibly involved topic but a great way to grow food as it's very self-sustaining and sustainable from an environmental perspective too. I'm not sure where you are, but the Agroforestry Research Trust is a very reliable and well-explained source of information on this: www.agroforestry.co.uk/about-agroforestry/forest-gardening/
@@GrowVeg Thank you so much! This site is informative without overwhelming me in technical details. I shall spend some time studying it before finally laying out my garden. I hope there may be some provision for forest gardening on your new version of the Garden Planner.
Again, thank you.
Hi Ben!!!
Helloooo!
Claytonia self seeds easily and comes up year after year
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
Yes, I would think you probably can if it gets lots of light, with the caution that in the depths of winter - December and January - growth is likely to be very slow as even though there's lots of light, it will still be a fraction of the intensity of outdoors.
Carrots and radishes can be grown at the same time, right? As long as you use a frost cover, so you have something to put on the salads? 🥗 🥕
Yes, they grow fine together at the same time. No need to cover them against frost - though you may want to cover with a fine mesh to protect the carrots against root flies.
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 .
Hi There. I'm afraid you are probably too late to plant seeds now - you're climate is the same as mine in the UK, and it's too late here. There are a few stockists of these seeds. For example Baker Creek: www.rareseeds.com
How warm a winter are you talking about? We can have 3 ft of snow.
Check out the channel One Yard Revolution. He grows all of these with great success in Chicago, even through the polar vortex a few years ago. You might want to check out Elliot Coleman’s books. He’s in Maine and thinks these crops can be overwintered as far north as Anchorage.
Mache overwinters in Pennsylvania with no problem. Zero degrees F. and a couple feet of snow. I covered it with the same fabric I used to keep bugs off the summer crops, the whole works froze and I thought the crop was a goner. But up it popped in spring and produced a great crop. This year I'm going to try it without the fabric.
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.
Watercress is Cresson
Miner's lettuce - the Latin is Claytonia perfoliata, so this may help identify it in French?
Land cress comes up as cresson also, but is obviously different to watercress.
Hopefully someone French speaking can shed some light on this - I'd love to know!
Which zone are you in? Will it work it zone 6b?
I'm in zone 8, but they should all grow in your zone. However, you might get the best results if you can cover them with a low hoop tunnel or row cover for a little extra warmth.
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 ;-)
I suspect all of these get slug damge so will try both outdoors in a polytunnel and conduct slug watches As you have new gardeners here some pest control info would be useful as all leafy veg suffer. Never sow direct if near woodland as wood mice are a real problem eating seed, as are pigeons (my experience). In my expereince, copper tape round a raised bed has some effect against slugs and snails, coffee grounds minor deterrant (I have had slugs in a large tray of coffee grounds), cheap beer OK but expect to catch things you don't want to kill (bees and other insects) - same with mouse traps (shrews). Video posted after 21st Sept is good; C Dowding's advice is to def plant winter leaves after that date (my 2 week old lambs lettuce is already bolting, as is my claytonia). Sorry to sound so negative. I know you like to keep the videos short and you can't cover every potential problem. It still helped me :) Thank you,
Hi there. Thanks for those extra tips and advice - and your comments aren't at all negative, only useful! Yes, slugs are the main problem. Often keeping plants generously spaced, so there is a bit more open ground between each plant, will help to deter slugs and also improves light levels at this gloomy time of year. But growing in a polytunnel will certainly help to avoid almost all slug damage.
I know this is a bit late but I also found some good information about keeping slugs off of plants and that is to use Walnut shelves and break them up and sprinkle them around your plants that you want to keep the slugs off of. Because the Walnut shells are so sharp no slug would try to venture past them to get to the plant because it would cut them up.
I meant Walnut shells, not shelves. Lol