Salad vegetables are vegetables that are typically used to create salads. While salads are mostly raw, some salads are also cooked (such as potato or beetroot salads) and even served warm.
Salad vegetables are often seasonal, although with the use of containers, a greenhouse or indoor growing, it is possible to grow salad vegetables all year round.
If you'd like to grow and/or purchase seasonal salad vegetables and accompanying herbs, here are some suggestions to get you started.
List of salad vegetables[edit | edit source]
Spring
- Asparagus
- Avocado
- Bamboo shoots
- Beetroot
- Chicory
- Peas
- Radish
- Spring lettuce
- Spring onions (scallions)
- Watercress
Summer
- Artichoke
- Amaranth
- Beans
- Bok choy
- Capsicum (bell pepper)
- Carrots
- Cha pru
- Cucumber
- Eggplant (aubergine)
- Lettuce
- Peas
- Perilla
- Radish
- Spinach
- Tomatoes
Autumn (fall)
- Bok choy
- Carrots
- Cucumber
- Kohlrabi
- Lettuce
- Mizuna
- Potatoes
- Radish
- Spinach
Winter
- Bok choy
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Daikon (white radish)
- Lettuce varieties, such as lamb's lettuce or cos lettuce (grow indoors)
- Mibuna
- Misome
- Orach (mountain spinach)
- Peas (winter variety)
- Potatoes
- Rocket (arugula)
- Shallots
- Upland cress
List of herbs suitable for salads[edit | edit source]
- Basil
- Calendula
- Chervil
- Chinese garlic chives
- Chives
- Chilli
- Coriander (cilantro)
- Culantro
- Dill
- Fennel (sweet)
- Galangal
- Garlic
- Lemongrass
- Marjoram
- Mint
- Nasturtium
- Parsley
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Tarragon
- Vietnamese mint
