Salad leaves
· Salad mix in the US
In a typical UK garden, sow indoors early February to late March, sow outside late March to early September, plant out early March to mid-April, and harvest late March to late November.
When to sow, plant and harvest
Last frost around 20 April, first frost around 31 October.
- Sow indoors
- early February to late March
- Sow outdoors
- late March to early September
- Plant out
- early March to mid-April
- Harvest
- late March to late November
Growing facts
- Spacing
- 5 cm apart, rows 15 cm apart
- Square foot
- 16 per square (30 cm squares)
- Sowing depth
- 1 cm
- Ready in
- 25 to 60 days from sowing
- Grows to
- 15 cm
- Hardiness
- Hardy to about -4 °C
- Sun
- Copes with some shade
- Crops for
- About 6 weeks
Growing tip
Cut leaves 2–3 cm above the base when about 10 cm tall; each sowing gives two or three cuts, so resow every few weeks.
More leafy greens
Where these figures come from
Every crop in VegLog was checked against published growing advice. Dates are worked out from average frost dates, so they shift with your garden. For salad leaves, we used:
Grow salad leaves with VegLog
Add salad leaves to a bed and VegLog reminds you when to sow, plant out and pick, timed to your own town's frost dates.
