10 Leafy Green Vegetables To Grow For Delicious Salads

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00:00Ten leafy green vegetables to grow for delicious salads.

00:04Swiss chard.

00:06Mediterranean chard is rarely invasive, grow in fertile, well-draining, composted soil,

00:12shelters beneficial insects, harvest outer leaves continuously.

00:17Watercress.

00:18European Asian watercress thrives in consistently wet media and light.

00:23Not aggressive, it attracts overflies and wasps, grow container bog style, and pinch

00:28flowers.

00:29Arugula.

00:31Mediterranean arugula delivers peppery leaves, self-seeds modestly, and attracts bees and

00:36ladybugs.

00:37Sow in cool seasons, thin, and harvest outer leaves.

00:41Kale.

00:43Eastern Mediterranean kale may self-seed and shelter beneficial predators.

00:47Grow in rich soil spaced 12 to 18 inches apart.

00:50Harvest outer leaves.

00:52Tatsoi.

00:53Tatsoi forms compact rosettes, seldom escapes, and attracts hoverflies.

00:58Grow in fertile, moist soil.

01:00Sow in the spring or fall and space 6 to 8 inches apart.

01:04Romaine lettuce.

01:06Romaine from Egypt forms tall, crisp heads, rarely spreads and offers insect perches.

01:12Grow in fertile, mulched soil and harvest by cutting entire heads at the base.

01:17Sorrel.

01:18Sorrel offers tangy, lemony leaves and can spread via rhizomes.

01:22Contain it.

01:24Prefers partial shade, fertile soil.

01:26Harvest young leaves.

01:28Mustard greens.

01:29Mustard greens provide heat and self-seed if pods mature.

01:33Shelter pirate bugs.

01:35Sow spring or fall, thin 6 to 8 inches, and harvest outer leaves.

01:40Spinach.

01:41Persian spinach is nutrient-rich, rarely escapes, and cool soil as ground cover.

01:47Sow spring or late summer, space 4 to 6 inches.

01:51Mizuna.

01:52Japanese mizuna has mild, peppery leaves and seldom becomes invasive.

01:57Shelters wasps and hoverflies.

01:59Grow in fertile soil spacing at 4 to 6 inches.

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