I've decided that anything that does well this year is an absolute keeper for the future because if it thrives though this year's climate b.s., it can make it through nearly anything.
every september my mother planted *feldsalat* - german for field salad - also known as mâche, corn salad, lamb’s lettuce, & rapunzel - & harvested it in december for our christmas dinner.
unlike a lot of strong winter greens, it is mild & nutty.
I grow it in the spring, we're still harvesting an occasional salad now - if you clip from the centre before they flower, you can get a second harvest. The tiny rosettes of leaves are cute but need to be carefully washed, dirt gets in deep.
Lettuce, radishes, green onions, all of the brassicas, garlic & shallots to over winter. I've tried snap peas but not successfully. I bought some micro tomato seeds, and I'm hoping to get cherry tomatoes all winter long in my unheated greenhouse (they'll have bottom heat and LED lights)
The only things I plant in the fall will be root crops (carrots, radishes, etc) and whatever cold hardy leafy greens I don't already have established. I have potatoes, Oxalis tuberosa (I highly suggest that. its a type of wood sorrel, but it also produces edible tubers), garlic, chives, green onions, winter peas, cilantro, Nicotiana rustica, kale, and lettuce. I planted most of those last year, and some of them were planted around 4 years ago. They will stay in the ground and overwinter.
I've decided that anything that does well this year is an absolute keeper for the future because if it thrives though this year's climate b.s., it can make it through nearly anything.
Same. I also want to know. I’m thinking garlic, onions, purple sprouting broccoli. Really don’t want to grow heading cabbages tho
every september my mother planted *feldsalat* - german for field salad - also known as mâche, corn salad, lamb’s lettuce, & rapunzel - & harvested it in december for our christmas dinner. unlike a lot of strong winter greens, it is mild & nutty.
"What are you having for dinner?" "Rapunzel" "..." I need to find these seeds and try them. Thanks!
I grow it in the spring, we're still harvesting an occasional salad now - if you clip from the centre before they flower, you can get a second harvest. The tiny rosettes of leaves are cute but need to be carefully washed, dirt gets in deep.
Lettuce, radishes, green onions, all of the brassicas, garlic & shallots to over winter. I've tried snap peas but not successfully. I bought some micro tomato seeds, and I'm hoping to get cherry tomatoes all winter long in my unheated greenhouse (they'll have bottom heat and LED lights)
https://territorialseed.com/blogs/fall-winter-growing-guides/winter-growing-chart
I plant bush beans as my summer plants finish up. I get a great harvest and freeze a ton for fall winter. Garden beans in February are amazing.
So in august? Or earlier?
I’ve definitely planted them in early August but I’ve already started replacing my some of my lettuces and a couple squash plants that didn’t take.
I like to plant garlic and potatoes in the fall for a spring harvest.
Uprising Seeds has a huge range of beautiful chicories and radicchios. I also love growing frisee, harvesting outer leaves before it forms a head.
The only things I plant in the fall will be root crops (carrots, radishes, etc) and whatever cold hardy leafy greens I don't already have established. I have potatoes, Oxalis tuberosa (I highly suggest that. its a type of wood sorrel, but it also produces edible tubers), garlic, chives, green onions, winter peas, cilantro, Nicotiana rustica, kale, and lettuce. I planted most of those last year, and some of them were planted around 4 years ago. They will stay in the ground and overwinter.