Organizing salad greens by yield

When looking at yield data collected this past spring, I found the salad greens I've grown could be roughly categorized into three groups: heavy, mid and light weight.  These distinctions could be useful when building a unique salad mix with some lessor known salad green varieties.

The highest yielding greens were the lettuces and loose headed cabbages.  These make a good basis for a salad mix because they are a) heavy and b) mild tasting.

Medium yield greens contain some of my favorite greens.  Ok, they are all my favorites and when mixed together they make a nice salad.  None of these have any spicy-ness, but they do offer good tastes and nice curvy leaves.  And beets and chard just so pretty.

Spicy mustards, arugula and kale make up the light weight category.  They are 'lofty' and add texture, color and interest to salad mixes.  Often, these are the greens that you don't want too much of in a salad anyway.  I've tried the mainly-mustard-greens salad and it was too much. The keyword there was 'tried.'  Other varieties of kale may produce a heavier yield, but the russian kales have rather spindly leaves when they are young.

What would you choose to put in your salad mix?

More on Vates kale

I wrote about vates kale about a month ago.  Two harvests later it's still going strong.  Whether or not a variety is a good cut-and-come-again green when grown on benches is something I started to assessed this week.  Kale seems to be a good contender.

Vates Kale

I planted this kale a month ago and forgot what it was because I didn't label the tray.  I thought it was broccoli for a few days (even though I don't actually have any broccoli seeds). But it's not - it's Vates kale from High Mowing.  It's delightful and sweet and better than red russian kale.  The hairs on the edges of the leaves are not sharp.  If I didn't have to spray it with aphid killing pesticides I would be eating this weekend.  Oh well, it will be eaten soon.