Salad Gardens

Salad Gardens covers lettuce, greens, and other salad crops for steady harvests, including cut-and-come-again picking and season extension. The articles here cover choosing lettuce varieties suited to your climate and growing method, and look beyond lettuce to peppery arugula, spinach, kale, sorrel, mâche, and other unusual salad greens that are straightforward to grow. Because salad greens are cool-season crops, you will find guidance on spring and fall planting and why most greens bolt and turn bitter once summer heat sets in.

Cut-and-come-again harvesting, where a grower takes a portion of the leaves and lets the plant regrow, is explained alongside mesclun mixes of baby leaves. Other articles address container and small-space growing on balconies and windowsills, layout and spacing, and companion plants.