Growning Leafy Vegetables

Leafy vegetables are cool season crops of best quality when reaching usable size under moderately cool temperatures (45° to 65°F is ideal). Thus, in Pennsylvania, spring  and fall plantings are recommended. Spinach, head lettuce, romaine, radicchio, and most leaf lettuce varieties may bolt or go to seed during the long, warm days of summer, so it is important to plant at the proper times. Loose, fertile, moist, sandy loam soils are best for growing leafy vegetables. Many of these crops have shallow root systems, so
cultivate carefully.

For more information, please see this Penn State Fact Sheet.

Penn State Hoticulture Department

For more information on this subject, Please visit the College of Agricultural Sciences Publications Web site.

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