Winter Cultivation of Leafy Greens

The variety Pirol is a swiss chard with gleaming golden stems and fresh green leaves, selected for its specially good taste. Cut young can be included in Baby Leaf mixes. Also available as calibrated seed.

The variety Jessica is a compact, uniform, fast growing Italian spinach beet. Can reach a weight of 0.7-1 kg and is ideal for selling as a complete plant. Recommended planting in open ground from july for harvesting in september, also suitable for o...

Low to medium tall growing green perpetual spinach beet Verde da taglio has glistening fine green leaves and tender midribs. Frost hardy, repeated cutting possible. Cut young can be included in Baby Leaf mixes. High yielding. Particularly good flavou...

Corn salad Verte à coeur plein 2 has dark green, medium sized, oval shaped, long-stemmed leaves. Good level of health and resistance. Suited to overwintering in open ground, not suitable for greenhouse cultivation.

Vit is a dark green, compact corn salad with round, short stemmed and clearly veined leaves. Well-proven market garden variety. Resistant to downy mildew.

Green in Snow is a green mustard with serrated leaves and a sharp, mustard-like flavour. Rapidly regrows and is healthy. Highly frost-resistant and bolting-resistant.

Quick growing ordinary type for all year round production under glass. Einfache Kresse is also suitable for outdoor sowing. Its finely divided leaves make it ideal for tray production.

Großblättrige Kresse is heavy cropping and keeps longer than ordinary cress after its cut, hence an ideal cutting variety for growing in soil. Larger plants make good addition to oriental salad mix. Very frost-hardy.

Verte de Cambrai is "Dunkelgrüner vollherziger 2" type, but this corn salad has somewhat lighter green and larger leaves than Verte à coeur plein 2 and has a compact rosette forming growth. Quick growing and winter hardy. Late to bolt, hence a long h...

Winterriesen/Verdil is a large leaved, second early spinach variety with rather tender leaves. Particularly suitable for autumn and winter cultivation. Very characteristic leaves with pointed tips at the lower end. Flavour is particularly aromatic an...

Namenia (Stielmus) is a very productive and good tasting leaf stalk vegetable, for cooking or for salad. Dense sowing and early cutting allows for two cuts. Relatively frost-hardy. Repeat harvest possible. Cut from a height of ca. 30 cm. Generally so...

Chinese leaves Mizuna is a very quick growing salad plant with a high yield. Forms a thick rosette with finely divided pale green leaves, which can be cut up to five times. Light cabbage flavour.

Hirschhornwegerich is a rosette forming salad plant 20-30 cm high. Its early growth is slow, later vigorous and very healthy with very high yields. Repeated cutting possible, very frost hardy. Transplanting recommended. Perfect for adding to Baby Lea...

Moutarde Rouge Metis is a fast growing leaf mustard with intensely red, finely serrated leaves and green stems. Medium sharp mustard flavour.

Chop suey greens is a species of annual chrysanthemum with shoots of up to 100 cm. The 10-20 cm long shoots can be used fresh in salad or steamed as a vegetable. Cut young can be included in Baby Leaf mixes. The buds and flowers are also edible....

Elan is a very quick growing corn salad, for growing both under protection and on open ground. Compact, smoothleaved plants that have a high individual weight. Resistant to downy mildew. Tendancy for curling when sown early, hence not suitable for th...

Mustard greens Red Giant with oval, lightly serrated leaves with red veins. Strong mustard taste with a good flavour.

Salad greens for autumn, winter, and spring cultivation. Cultivation is similar to that of corn salad. In protected locations, Winterpostelein can be cut multiple times throughout the winter. Extremely frost-resistant!Salad greens for autumn, winter, and spring cultivation. Cultivation is similar to that of corn salad. In protected locations, Winterpostelein can be cut multiple times throughout the winter. Extremely frost-resistant!

Feurio is a swiss chard with bright red stems and green red veined leaves. Cut young can be included in Baby Leaf mixes. Also available as calibrated seed.

Rainbow is a colourful mixture made up of four varieties of swiss chard (yellow stemmed, red with green leaf, purple with green leaf and orange stemmed with red leaf). Vigorous and healthy. They are selected for their glowing clear colours and excell...

Visually appealing mix of the Asian lettuces Mizuna, Red Giant, Moutarde Rouge Metis and Green in Snow. This mix is ideal for one to two harvests.

Red Russian Kale is a healthy, vigorous kale with purple stems and dark green, serrated leaves. The leaves are significantly softer than curly kale. Harvest as baby-leaf for salads or full grown for cooking. Medium hardy, planting distance 75 x 30 cm...