EAT TASTY SALAD IN WINTER WITH THESE EASY TO GROW GREENS Wendy Seabrook, Alison Graham, and Diana Wilding Learning from Nature
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EAT TASTY SALAD IN WINTER WITH THESE EASY TO GROW GREENS There are heaps of greens you can grow for salads, but only a few that survive over winter depending on your frosts and snow cover. Here we ve concentrated on species and varieties that are easy to grow. Perennials that don t need growing from seed every year. Annuals and biennials that easily self -seed or self-propagate, like chives and shallots. If you have successfully grown other plants, or have had different experiences with growing these plants please help us further develop this resource. Thanks! Wendy, Diana and Alison
NAME TYPE LATIN NAME Annual (A), Biannual (BA) or perennial (P) Free-seeding or selfpropagating Can grow overwinter with no protection Grows overwinter with protection INFORMATION Chard Beta vulgaris subsp. Vulgaris BA Hardy winter green. Includes Rainbow Chard and Silverbeet. Young leaves can be used raw in salads. Chives Allium schoenoprasum P Cut the leafy stems to add a mild garlic taste to your salads and omelettes. Chives - Garlic Allium tuberosum P Will easily bounce back after cold, snowy winters. Fat-hen Chenopodium album P Was a staple before spinach was available. Contains more iron and protein than spinach or cabbage (Richard Mabey, 1972. Food for Free). Fennel Foeniculum vulgare P? Wonderful addition to a salad. Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata BA Woodland plant coming up very early in spring Good King Henry Chenopodium bonushenricus P An ancient food plant found in Neolithic encampments (Richard Mabey, 1972. Food for Free). Kale Hungry Gap Brassica oleracea A? Grows well into winter. This variety was named after the period in winter when little else could be harvested. Land Cress Barbarea verna BA Provides pickings throughout winter if covered. Leaf Celery Apium graveolens var secalinum BA? Grown for its leaves. Can survive to -12C
NAME TYPE LATIN NAME Annual (A), Biannual (BA) or perennial (P) Free-seeding or selfpropagating Can grow overwinter with no protection Grows overwinter with protection INFORMATION Lettuce - Arctic King Lettuce - Winter Marvell Lactuca sativa A? Well known for its exceptional cold resistance. Plant in Autumn for overwintering. Lactuca sativa A? Butter-head lettuce. Plant in Autumn for overwintering. Miner s Lettuce Mizuna Claytonia perfoliata BA Hardiest of the winter salad greens, can tolerate moderate frost and can be grown all winter in mild regions or in cold greenhouses. Brassica juncea var. Japonica A? Pick the outer leaves and it will keep producing... Red Giant Brassica juncea A? Mustard Green Wave Brassica juncea A? Tasty additions to any salad. Scarlet Frills Brassica juncea A? Nasturium Tropaeolum majus A You can eat the leaves and flowers. Nine Star Perennial Onion - Tree or Walking Brassica oleracea P? Early March cut central large cauliflower and smaller ones will follow. If you don't let it seed will keep producing for 3 to 5 years. Allium fistulosum bulbifera P Produces clusters of edible bulblets instead of flowers, that bend down under the weight taking root some distance from the parent plant - hence 'walking onion'.
NAME TYPE LATIN NAME Annual (A), Biannual (BA) or perennial (P) Free-seeding or selfpropagating Can grow overwinter with no protection Grows overwinter with protection INFORMATION Onion - Welsh Bunching Allium fistulosum P? Doesn't self-seed easily, but produces lots of baby onions alongside the main plant. Italian Petroselinum crispum BA? A culinary and medicinal herb recognized as one of the functional food for its Parsley French Petroselinum crispum BA? unique antioxidants, and disease preventing properties. Curly Petroselinum crispum BA Ramsons Allium ursinum P Strong garlic flavour when eaten raw, milder if cooked. Prefers light shade. Salad Burnett Sanguisorba minor P? Has a mild cucumber taste. Sea Kale Crambe maritima P You can eat the small flowers (broccolis) weeks before most annual vegetables can be planted (Eric Toensmeier - permaculturenews.org/2014/04/08/spring-season-perennialvegetables-cold-climate-garden/). Sorrel Spinach - Perpetual Buckler-leaf Rumex acetosa P? Wild varieties are one of the first plants to appear in the spring. Blood Veined Rumex acetosa P? Beta vulgaris P Grows for several years without developing bitterness as it ages. Watercress Nasturtium officinale P? Wetland plant with spicy foliage being rediscovered as a winter staple. Wild Rocket (Arugula) Diplotaxis tenuifolia P This is a perennial variety. Keep it going over winter and then cut back to let new seedlings grow.