Winter Salads for Kansas Gardens
Growing winter salads in Kansas is mostly a fall project, timed backward from the first freeze. Spring dates only anchor the calendar.
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Growing winter salads in Kansas is mostly a fall project, timed backward from the first freeze. Spring dates only anchor the calendar.
Frost dates near Des Moines, the soil and heat problems of late summer, and which hardy greens stand uncovered or need a cold frame through an Iowa winter.
Start counting from the last spring frost, but sow by soil. In Indiana that frost lands between April 9 and April 21 at the Indianapolis reference station.
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 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.