Homegrown Salads Vegetable Garden Pack

Arugula

Also known as rocket or roquette and is popular in Italian cuisine. Adds an interesting tangy flavor to an otherwise bland salad. All plant parts are edible and harvest is enjoyed over a long period as it is a cut and come again plant.

It prefers cool weather so start sowing successive plantings directly in the garden as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring. Also try an early to mid-fall planting in a cold frame or greenhouse for harvest throughout the winter.

Sow seed ¼ inch deep in a location that receives full sun to partial shade. Best soil temperatures for germination is 40 to 50ºF. Sow about one inch apart thinning plants to a spacing of about six inches. Harvest when the leaves are 2 to 3 inches long.

Corn Salad
Sow seeds thickly, ¼ to ½ inches deep, in rows spaced one foot apart. When the plants have three to four leaves, thin them to four inches apart. In colder climates, you can sow seeds indoors, four to six weeks prior to transplanting or directly outdoors as early in the spring as the ground can be worked. This will yield an early summer harvest. You can also plant in the late summer for fall harvest or late fall for spring harvest. This is an old European garden green. It is mild flavored and contrasts nicely with stronger flavored greens in salads. It can also be cooked like spinach or used in dishes.

Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch Kale (Vates)
The leaves are finely curled, bluish green, low growing at twelve to fifteen inches tall with a spread of twenty four to thirty inches. It stands well and is hardy.

Buttercrunch Bibb Lettuce
Long lasting, heat tolerant, dark green with reddish tints. The heads are rosette shaped with thick leaves. Introduced in 1963 and an "All-American Selection®" winner the same year.

Iceberg Head Lettuce
Medium size, light green with a tinge of brown, tightly folded, crinkled. Crisp white interior with a fine flavor.

Salad Bowl, Green - Leaf Lettuce
Light green, long wavy leaves are slow to bolt and tolerant of heat. Doesn't get bitter in the hot weather. Introduced in 1952 and was an "All-American Selection®" winner in the same year.

Cimmaron Romaine Lettuce
Sow in the spring or late summer. The medium sized heads stay firm and solid even in hot weather. Does well in the North.

Ruby Leaf Lettuce
A beautiful leaf lettuce with intense red color that holds under conditions where color fades in other many red cultivars. Introduced in 1957 and was an All-American Selection® winner in 1958.

Bloomsdale Longstanding Spinach
Leaves are dark green and crumpled. Stands well in hot weather. Named after their farm in Bristol, PA, D. Landreth & Co. released ‘Bloomsdale’ in the 19th century. 'Long Standing Bloomsdale' was developed and introduced in 1925 by Zwaan and Van der Molen, Voorburg, Netherlands.