Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: tinyallotment on October 06, 2014, 15:05
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Hi All
My plot is still full of stuff at the moment but I am gonna have to start chopping and dropping my beans, sweet corn etc but I don't want the plot to be empty over winter so what can I plant now for veggies through the winter?
paul
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Too late for veg to eat during winter, but you could get some Spring cabbage plants from the garden centre.
Where you are you might like to try planting some peas for an early Spring crop :unsure:
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Overwintering onion sets - Senshyu is a reliable variety
Garlic
Broad beans (maybe November for those)
Rhubarb from divided roots
erm...
Cheers,
Balders
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I have planted around 300 onion seeds which are growing well in moduals in the polytunel.
I have planted Paris earlies and Sturon
I am going to transplant some of them into beds in the polytunel and then some out in the main beds
paul
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I know this might sound stupid but lettuces can do well if you cover them with fleece. A living salad from Lidl is a good way to get decent sized plants cheap. They won't last the whole winter but can go on to the first serious frost and longer if covered or if you've sown winter ones.
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Re: living salad trays as winter crops - would you separate them out to individual plants or trowel in in small clumps? - and then I guess you use them as cut and come again rather than trying to grow them to full size?
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I do both. The problem (I've found) trying to use them as single plants is that they've been grown quickly and very close together so the result is that the roots are very tangled and the plants are easily broken.