Salads are great any time of the year,
and you can even grow your own outdoors and indoors under lights.
Small-leafed greens are excellent for indoor
growing.
Remember to wash salad greens well
and drain completely. Invest in a good
salad
spinner
to remove excess water after washing, so the salad dressing clings
to the leaves.
Leafy green (and other colored)
vegetables are excellent sources of fiber as well as vitamin A,
iron, calcium, and many other nutrients. Note that the old
fashioned iceberg lettuce has very few nutrients and little flavor,
so you won't find it on this page!
Here are some of the most popular
salad greens with a description of their flavor and pictures so you
can "Know Your Salad Greens".
Popular Salad Greens
Mesculun
mixes contain a number of mixed greens - any of the above as
well as skyrocket, mustard leaves, and other small leaf
greens. For the larger growing leaf varieties in the
mix, the leaves are meant to be harvested when very small.