When to Sow Winter Salads in Arizona
Low-desert Arizona has no frost-based sowing calendar for winter salads, because it rarely has a frost to plan around.
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Low-desert Arizona has no frost-based sowing calendar for winter salads, because it rarely has a frost to plan around.
In the low desert around Phoenix, the best winter salads are quick, cool-loving greens: loose-leaf lettuce, arugula, spinach, mustard, chard and kale.
Sow winter salads in Alberta from early July to early August, counting back from a mean first fall frost of September 16.
For an Alberta winter salad bed, choose by type rather than by seed-packet name.
Sow Alaska winter salads in the back half of the frost-free season, not the front.
The best winter salads for Alaska are fast, frost-tolerant leaves: spinach, mizuna, arugula, mâche, claytonia and tender young kale.
Sow winter salads in Alabama in early fall, early enough that seedlings are established before the first fall frost window of November 2 to November 16.
The best winter salad crops for Alabama are the cold-tolerant, quick leaves: arugula, mizuna, spinach, loose-leaf lettuce, baby kale and mustard.
Whitehorse frost dates, a winter low of -19.2 °C and a short window decide which salad types work in Yukon, and where cover is essential.
In Ontario, spinach gets two short cutting windows: a few weeks in spring from an early-to-mid April sowing, and a fall crop sown 50 to 75 days before…