[Jeanieblue]

Have just read an article in the Daily Telegraph by Sarah Raven, who has the good luck to live in the south!  She advocates autumn-sowing herbs and salad leaves to crop overwinter. Suggested seeds are rocket, lettuce (Green Oak Leaf, Cocarde, Black Seeded Simpson, Valdor, Salad Bowl, lambs ), coriander, winter purslane, mibuna, cress 'Bubbles', mustard ('Red Frills', 'Osaka Purple', 'Golden Streaks')Swiss and rainbow chard, mizuna, chervil, curly leafed parsley, Par-Cel, Dominant spinach, Red Russian kale .....  
She suggests outdoors down south, or in cooler wetter climes, in pots sheltered against the house, or in a greenhouse.

Has anyone else tried this with any success?  I have a few suitable seeds in the stash box so will give it a go in my plastic Woollies greenhouse. At best, we'll be having some tasty fresh leaves over the winter, at worse, I'll have produced some green manure for the lottie !

[stu_wat]

I am trying this this year.

I have sown so far Mizzona (spelling), Lamb's Corn Salad & Winter Dentisty Lettuce.

at the moment these are all in the cold frame.

Ill keep you posted on how it goes.

[compostqueen]

I grew loads of winter lettuces and greens last winter, some more successful than others

A good leaf mixture was from Seeds of Italy called Misticanza. It stood well out in the open. Covering over with a cloche or fleece etc is a good idea to avoid dirt-spashed leaves.  I grew Cornet de Bordeaux which is an endive I think, various winter lettuces, were Brune de Hiver, Valdor, Arctic something or other, spinach Bordeaux which I sowed in Sept.  Redbor kale, salad onions winter type White Lisbon. The corn salad is good too    the oriental leaves are fine and make good stir fry material as well as pepping up salads when the leaves are small.

[mashbintater]

Wondering, as my plastic mini greenhouse cover is wrecked and I'm having difficulty finding another cover for the frame, being the shape it is (not gardman);
Would it be possible to grow a few salad (lollo rosso, rocket, spinach) and chinese cabbages overwinter indoors next to my patio door. It's south facing?
I've a 2 level coffee table with my pepper plants on top shelf, maybe use the lower shelf for the other stuff or would they bolt with the central heating?
Thanks.