Winter’s Salad Leaves

Description

Your many options include
land cress,
lambs lettuce or corn salad/mache,
chervil,
claytonia or winter purslane,
salad rocket or arugula,
spinach.
All are hardy to many degrees of frost.

The key thing is to sow them in August for spinach and chervil, and early September for the others.

Filmed 12th November 2026 by Nicola Smith, at Homeacres Somerset UK, zone 8 climate with frosts to -8°C/18°F at the lowest, normally!