Summer has just begun but will soon be over! Regardless of where you live, there are a few crops you can count on to withstand cooler temps, frost, and even sometimes snow.
Having a thriving vegetable garden doesn’t have to end when summer does.
With a little bit of planning, and preparation you can grow vegetables well into the winter months or even year round if you live in a warmer climate down south.
Vegetables you can plant now will only become sweeter and more delicious if they go through a frost!
What The Experts Say.
When a frost comes into contact with a lot of these cool-season vegetables.
They naturally react to the cold and produce extra sugars.
Which can make some of the more bitter tasting vegetables taste rather sweet.
If you prepare NOW to have the garden you’ve always wanted during Fall/Winter!
With these crops, put the fear of your plants being damaged or destroyed aside.
When Winter weather rolls around, these vegetables will grow well & actually THRIVE!
Most Popular Cold Hardy Plants
Broccoli, Calabrese
Withstands cold well. Best used for a fall crop. Extremely flavorful heads of broccoli. Once the main head is cut off the plant will continuously produce many broccoli shoots during the season
Carrot, Tendersweet
One of the sweetest and best tasting carrots you can grow! – Skinny 7″ tapered roots – Easy to grow – Carrots are a sun-loving plants that also like the cold.
Kale, Blue Curled Scotch
early Kale variety which will produce tasty greens! Can handle the cold extremely well. One of the best frost resistant kale varieties available.
Onion - Barletta White
The Barletta, Pearly White Onion is an extremely tasty small pearl-sized onion. Barletta onions are beautiful silver white pickling onions. So delicious! Perfect for shish-ka-bobs,
- Step 1: Remove any plants left over from spring or summer.
This is a good time to add to your compost pile.
Weed your garden and plan out the new places you will start your fall/winter planting area. - Step 2: Freshen up your soil.
Soil amendments are made from a wide variety of materials.
These can be purchased in garden stores or made at home.Manure from cows or horses is often used as compost, as are various household and kitchen wastes.
Pick some up at your garden centre, local nursery or hardware store.
- Step 3: Plant your vegetables according to their specific instructions.
These can be found on your packets of seeds.
CLICK HERE for an All-In-One Fall Winter Variety Seed Pack with 15 different seeds included. - Step 4: Watering. You should water when you have crops growing.
When the weather is warm, and it has not rained for 1-2 weeks.When you have just transplanted a crop and it is not likely to rain within the next 24 hours.
When you have just seeded a crop and it is not likely to rain within the next week.
You may only need to water the newly planted plants or seeds.
OK! HOW DO I CHOOSE MY SEEDS??
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