Maché and Other Winter Greens

Maché

Maché is one of the most cold hardy salad greens one can grow. They didn’t get planted this year, but that didn’t stop them from coming up anyway, since some of the plants in the above photo (taken late January 2018) went to seed.

Maché flowering
Maché flowering in the hoophouse, and getting ready to reseed itself.
Young maché plants
Young maché plants
Maché in the salad bowl.
Maché in the salad bowl. (Taken on November 23, 2017, this was probably one of our first maché harvests, and everything else in the salad was also from our hoophouse garden.)

The main reason the maché didn’t get planted this year was because we were all too busy trying to keep the rodents away from some of the earlier winter crops that had been planted. Here’s a look at a few of the more intentionally planted crops in the hoophouse right now:

Mizuna
Mizuna
Escarole
Escarole
Mibuna
Mibuna
Tokyo bekana
Tokyo bekana
A romaine type lettuce variety called 'winter density'
A romaine type lettuce variety called ‘winter density’
Mibuna
Mibuna