The Top Winter Vegetables

With the winter vegetables, your vegetable garden remains utilized even during the coldest months. Frequently, winter vegetables produce earlier crops than spring plantings. There are plenty of magnificent vegetables that can be grown both in outdoors and also greenhouses during winter depending on their nature. Below is my top list of various winter vegetables:

Outdoors Winter Vegetables

Quite a good number of winter vegetables can be grown outdoors, these vegetables have the ability to withstand the freezing weather since they are highly hardy, However, in case they are endangered by extreme frost, you need to throw fleece on them so as to enable them to survive the harsh weathers. Examples include:

Garlic

Growing garlic is an easy task. Depending on the nature of the soil, the planting depth of garlic differs, whereby for light soils the depth should be deeper up to 2.5 inch while for heavy soil the depth should be less than one inch. Also it is important that you spray them with compounds rich with Sulphur.

Lamb lettuce

It takes a little energy to grow lamb lettuce. Naturally, they can grow with low temperatures and also do not need high light levels. The other desirable thing about this vegetable is that it can be grown in between spring cabbages plants in situations where there is limited space.

Spring Cabbages

Spring cabbages survives the winter. It is advisable that you should grow them 12 inch apart. Moreover, after growing you have to earth up the soil around the stems to help them endure the cold. However, with extreme cold weather it is necessary that your spray them with fleece.

Onions and Shallots

Just like garlic, growing onions and shallots is easy. With a long growing seasons onions takes long to be harvested and
therefore their cold hardy nature enables them to traverse through the winter season. Shallots in the other hand are trending more and more due to their tasty flavor.

Broad beans

Specifically, Broad Bean ‘Aquadulce Claudia’ and ‘Super Aquadulce’ is the best autumn sown beans since it is quick to establish. They are absolutely delicious wilted with butter. Whenever they grow tall over the winter causing them to split above the ground, make sure to install sticks or strings to hold them.

Greenhouse Winter Vegetables

Even though the outdoor winter vegetables fully utilize the garden throughout the seasons, some of them require extra protection from the cold hence requiring to be grown in a greenhouse. These vegetables include:

Carrots

Carrots especially Adelaide grows wonderfully in spring. Unlike many other vegetables, Adelaide carrots matures faster and can
be sown at early November in greenhouses and also late July when they are grown outdoors. The fact that it can make it both in greenhouses and outdoors depending on time gives it an extra advantage.

Pak Choi

Rich with vitamin A and C and also Calcium, Iron and Folic Acid, Pak Choi has a faster maturity rate. It can be harvested throughout the winter, nevertheless this crop can as well be grown on summer. It is normally harvested as individual salad leaves during winter.

With the above crops, winter cannot necessarily prevent you from having your favorite vegetable dishes. All you need to do is to identify your favorite winter vegetable and grow them using the right procedure and all your vegetable needs would be satisfied.