Grow Your Own Magazine

What does everyone grow over winter in their veg plots?
I thought I would like to utilize the space.
Evie b

Bored very often And cardboard.

Leeks, cabbage (not many), PSB, Sprouts, perpetual spinach, parsnips (don't mention the war snips )

__________________
"Orinoco was a fat and lazy Womble"

Cabbages (various types), PSB, white sprouting brocolli, sprouts, kale, leeks, parsnips, swede and quite a bit of green manure. Also will be growing winter salads in the polytunnel as well as overwintered peas, garlic, broad beans and onions.

__________________

Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

Same as Alison, except I don't have a polytunnel.

__________________
History teaches us that history teaches us nothing. - Hegel

Sprouts, kale, leeks, parsnips, garlic and salad in pots in my greenhouse!

Leeks, kale, cabbage, PSB, parsnips. And at home various herbs and leafy salads.

Thanks all for your replies. Will give it a go in the winter.
Evie b

Don't wait till Winter you need to be starting sowing now ........

__________________
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?
Jo aka Binbags

Binley Knows Best - and if you believe that...

Member of Mojo by mail club

Member of the Queen of Baking and Parsnip Appreciation Societies

Planting out now: sowing was done in April/May

__________________
~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkt82aeOCFo~

~ my allotment photos ~

All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments." -- Janet Kilburn Phillips

You can still sow the salad leaves, etc later in the year but get yourself to a nursery for already sown brassica plants or see if anyone has them on something like Freecycle, car boots etc.

__________________
RtB x

When's the latest you can put parsnip seeds straight into the ground? i thought I was too late by the date given on the packet, and put a couple of rows in two weeks ago - and they've come up...Do I just carry on putting some more in? Will they grow?

you'll not get much in the way of parsnips from sowings this late as they need a long growing season.

Mine were sown March/April and are looking monstrous

I've still not sown mine....must get to it.

Difficult to say Nettie as we don't know where in the UK you are. North I'd say perhaps not, South I'd say yes.

__________________
Newman: Hello Jerry
Jerry: Hello Newman...

my blog - updated 25th July - Visit to the seaside with the Holga http://linearlegume.blogspot.com/

Heritage Seed Library- help a seed in need: http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/index.php

Founder member of the Binley Knows Best Club - Feb 2010.
Hearty Supporter of the Mojo by Mail Syndicate [Member No 3]

Holga - the best camera in the world

im trying to use my space in the winter aswell for the first time this year. ive got PSB, swiss chard and Kale in little pots at the moment till they get a bit bigger to go out. ive also grown some salsify. i will also be sowing some winter lettuces in autumn.

I'm in the midlands so it could go either way :-)

is it too late to plant some swiss chard now for the winter?

oh and people, do not forget to overwinter your chilli plants!

__________________
.................................................. ........
Advice on Growing Chilli Plants.

If you've got parsnip seed, put them in coz you cant really keep them for next year. If you haven't they only cost 50p from wilko and it's worth a try, they will germinate a lot faster now than in april coz they like a warm soil to start off with......thats what i think anyhow!