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    Hi Everyone,

    We hope you are all enjoying the amazing sunshine! It almost feels wrong to mention the 'w' word while it is so nice outside, but we were wondering, what are your favourite crops to overwinter and why? What have your successes and failures been?

    Answers may be edited and published in the October issue of Grow Your Own.


    Laura
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  • #2
    Mizuna and claytonia did well in the greenhouse. I have some cloches to try some things this outside this year.

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    • #3
      ha,, I just came on for some tips on what i can start now for harvesting through winter. Thanks for starting this.

      “If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

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      • #4
        Call me sad ( I don't care ), but I am getting seriously excited about getting my Golden Gourmet Shallots in for next year - and I haven't even lifted this years harvest yet! They are looking to be my best effort yet and the prospect of the sweet and spicy pickles they are going to make is making me a very happy veggie-grower!
        When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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        • #5
          That is not sad at all! It is exciting planning for future harvests

          Has anybody 'accidentally' overwintered a crop? Or had successes with something unexpected?

          Laura
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          • #6
            Yes, in the last two mild winters I've found that semi-tender things like chervil and oca survived, unlike the two severe winters before.

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            • #7
              My favourites and easiest have been chillis and sweet peppers I gave them a quick trim then left the plants over winter on a north facing window still. Once spring arrived I re-potted the plants then gradually acclimatised them to the GH.
              Location....East Midlands.

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              • #8
                All good choices so far! What else have people tried?

                Laura
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Laura Hillier View Post
                  That is not sad at all! It is exciting planning for future harvests

                  Has anybody 'accidentally' overwintered a crop? Or had successes with something unexpected?

                  Laura
                  Several years ago I grew some Physalis Peruviana (aka Cape Gooseberries, Inca berries etc) from supermarket fruits. Planted them in a pot in the greenhouse and had a lot of delicious fruit from them. They died back in the winter and I didn't get round to clearing them out. Come spring they were shooting again and those plants kept on growing for about 5 years! I have another lot of plants for this winter and am hoping for another 5 years of fruit

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                  • #10
                    Accidental overwintering at its best! A nice mixture so far

                    How about everybody else?

                    Laura
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                    • #11
                      Parsnips, they need the frost, shallots planted on ridges to stop the rot, garlic and onions. In the tunnel, PSB 'cos it is destoyed by any snow and the low temperatures we get here. Going to try several different things in the tunnel this year.
                      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                      • #12
                        hey =- am I too late to sow PSB in the polytunnel?
                        "Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage" Anais Nin.

                        "Or according to the size of your polytunnell" Judy Elliott

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                        • #13
                          I have had Shirley tomatoes on the kitchen windowsill a couple of times that have produced shoots from the bottom which I couldn't bear to throw away, so I cut down the main stems when they had finished fruiting and tied the side shoots to the cane. They only produced about 4 tomatoes each, but it is nice to have a taste of fresh home grown tomato at Christmas
                          A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by judy2shoes View Post
                            hey =- am I too late to sow PSB in the polytunnel?
                            I forgot to sow them earlier but picked up a punnet of about sixteen plantlets from Cowells on the old Airport road the other day. £2.50 I think...............cheaper than a packet of seeds anyway.
                            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                            Diversify & prosper


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                            • #15
                              Some years my row of swiss chard overwinters ok, alright it gets a bit manky during the worst of the weather but in the spring it comes to life again.

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