Sow winter salads in late summer, counting backward from your first fall freeze rather than forward from Labor Day.

For Wisconsin, choose the cold-hardy leaf crops: spinach, mâche, claytonia, and hardy kale.

Sow winter salads in West Virginia from late summer into early fall, and finish before the first fall freeze arrives.

Cold-hardy leaf crops are the best winter salads for West Virginia: spinach, mâche, claytonia, kale, collards, mustard greens and arugula.

Celeriac, kohlrabi, horseradish and Jerusalem artichokes are the unusual root vegetables most likely to show up in a fall farm-share box and leave people…

In western Washington, sow winter salads early enough that the plants are nearly full size before the first fall frost, which arrives in mid-to-late…

For western Washington, the best winter salads are the cold-tolerant leaf crops that cope with cold, wet soil and thin light: mâche, claytonia, spinach…

Sow winter salads in Virginia from late summer into early fall, timed to finish ahead of your first fall frost.

For most Virginia gardens, the best winter salads are the cold-hardy leaf crops: spinach, mâche, claytonia, arugula, mustards, and chicories such as…

Sow winter salads in Vermont in late summer, counting backward from your first fall freeze, so the plants are nearly full size before the short days…