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Can you give me ideas of what I can grow in an unheated greenhouse through the winter.At the moment it full to bursting with cucumbers,tomatos,peppers,chillies,spinach,corgett es,peas and french beans. When all this is gone I would like to make use of the space. I have read on here about potatos for xmas , which is one idea I will try. Any more please.

Not really much.
It's not down to heat, it's down to short day-length.
Use your greenhouse to over-winter plants like fuchsias, pelargoniums, chillies. Then get sowing again in January (onions, sweet peas)

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From experience this year, try growing early tomatoes indoors, and moving to the greenhouse as soon as it starts getting lighter.

We had tomatoes from 8th June this year - off one plant - which was sown on 8th Jan.

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moon trials completed:
tomatoes
[46% increase in crop per seed sown and 10% increase in crop per plant]

currently underway:
calabrese
garlic

I'm trying a few winter greens including spring cabbage,tuscan kale etc.

Theoretically whatever will grow outside during the winter can be grown inside to give an earlier crop!

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Flwoers for the house? Cyclamen, Freesias maybe (can't remember when they flower)

I usually put in a row or two of lettuce - Winter Density, All the year Round - now I have some seeds of Stoke which I got as a freebie from the Heritage Seed Library - that did well in the greenhouse in winter. You can do lamb's lettuce and Amercian land cress too. At least, I have.

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To have so many fruit and veg in your Greenhouse as you have at present, it must be the one I saw on the BBC News the other day, where they will be able to grow Lettuce etc., in Britain even during the winter months, rather than have to import them??

I usually grow a couple of seed trays of 'grass' in the winter greenhouse (for the guinea pigs). I germinate the seeds from their dry food ~ oats, rye etc

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