Winter Salads for Illinois Gardens
Winter salad crops in Illinois are sown in late summer and early fall, and the hardiest types keep producing under a light cover. This page covers timing, season length, cold and types.
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Winter salad crops in Illinois are sown in late summer and early fall, and the hardiest types keep producing under a light cover. This page covers timing, season length, cold and types.
In New Brunswick, cut spinach in late spring, before the days peak and the afternoons settle above 75 F (about 24 °C), and again in early autumn, ahead…
In Nevada, cut spinach during the cool weeks of spring and again in fall once the soil drops below 80 F. Summer is closed.
Cut spinach as soon as the leaves are big enough to eat and before the center starts rising into a seed stalk.
Cut Montana spinach in spring, before heat and the longest days push it to flower, and try a second crop in autumn if the soil cooperates.
Cut spinach in Missouri during the cool weeks of spring and again in fall. Cut the whole plant the moment a center stalk starts to rise or highs settle…
In Kansas, winter mulch goes on after the ground starts to freeze, not before.
In Mississippi, cut spinach from late winter through spring, while afternoons stay under 75 F, or in autumn once the soil cools and before the first frost.
Plan on at least 60 days from planting to ripe ears, and the planting can’t happen until the soil warms.
Dig them up. Across Kansas, dahlia tubers, canna rhizomes and gladiolus corms should come out of the ground in the weeks after the first frost that…