Salads You Can Grow in Pots to Eat Fresh All Year Round

Green salad during the cold season isn’t so rare. We find rucola, baby spinach and other greens, especially packed, at pretty high prices in supermarkets. But we can have fresh, tasty salads all year round, grown on our own balcony. Here are five salads you can grow in pots to enjoy fresh and get those vitamins and iron all year round.

Lettuce

It can be successfully grown in pots or crates on any balcony. It grows well in both the sunlight and the shade and can be harvested 10 – 12 weeks after sowing. Tear or cut the leaves, depending on the cultivar, and new ones will grow from the same plant.

Salads you can grow in pots. Rucola

This is such a nutritious salad, used in a lot of dishes for its intense, spicy flavor. The leaves oxidate pretty fast, so you’d better eat them while they’re fresh. It grows well in planters, in regular soil. Make a ditch in the middle and place the seeds 0.4 inches deep. Don’t place the planter in direct sunlight and watch out for the first flowering buds. They have to be removed immediately, so that the plant grows new leaves all year round.

Baby spinach

This type of spinach is mainly used in salads, not cooked dishes. The plant is very adaptable, tolerating high temperatures during summer and low ones, down to 14 degrees, in the winter. But make sure its foliage is not too developed over winter.