How Do You Grow A Salad Vegetable Garden?
Nothing tastes more refreshing with fish or chicken on the grill than a salad made from the garden with crisp greens and plump cherry tomatoes lightly bathed in balsamic vinaigrette. Select a small plot of ground with full sun in the backyard and grow a salad vegetable garden for a summer of produce. Plant a salad vegetable garden in neat rows, raised beds in plots or containers on the patio. Most salad vegetables require minimal space to grow and keep growing after cutting. Begin a salad garden early in the planting season with cold loving spinach. Sow the seeds in April and pick this vegetable at the end of May for a spring treat. For an even earlier harvest, sow spinach seeds directly in the cold frame in early March. Sow salad greens throughout the garden or in individual patches or rows. Plant Swiss chard along with red and green leaf lettuce for a salad garden that produces all summer. The lettuce grown in vegetable gardens looks and tastes nothing like the bleached heads of Iceb