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…

The best winter salads for Vermont are the cold-hardy greens: spinach, mâche, claytonia, kale, and tough Asian greens such as tatsoi and mizuna.

For Salt Lake City, count backward from the first fall freeze, which lands between October 18 and October 29, and sow winter salads before that window…

Spinach, mâche, claytonia, kale and the mustards are the best winter salads for most Utah gardens.

For Houston, the reference city used here, winter salads go in during fall and keep going through the mild months.

For most of Texas, the best winter salads are cool-season greens that grow fast and shrug off a light freeze: loose-leaf lettuce, spinach, arugula…

Sow winter salads in Tennessee in the weeks leading up to the first fall frost, which the Nashville reference station puts between October 28 and…

Build Tennessee winter salads around cold-hardy leaf crops: spinach, mâche, claytonia, kale, mustard greens and the tougher lettuces.

Sow winter salads in South Dakota from late July through about August 23 for fall and winter picking, then again under cover from mid-March to mid-April.