Winter salads can be grown in Manitoba, but the cold sets the rules, not the summer heat.

Sow hardy greens in late summer, count back from the first fall frost, and cover the bed. This page explains the timing and the types that suit Maine.

Growing winter salads in Louisiana runs on a calendar that most planting charts get backwards.

Kentucky’s frost dates, winter lows and hot, humid summers decide when to sow winter salad greens, which types stand uncovered, and which need row cover to stay edible.

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.