I live in the desert and I have been absolutely hating my garden lately. This video has me excited again. I can't wait to start my winter garden! Garlic, onions, cilantro! I'm going to have killer salsa next year!
I made two cold frames for my two little 4x4 raised beds. I'm loving the fact that I have peas growing still! In 7a here, and it's protected them down to 26/27 F!! Hopefully I get at least some shoots to eat before it gets too cold. Can't wait for spring. Next year I'll plan for kale, cilantro, and spinach....
I took special care of my one Kale plant (direct sow this Spring) because my Broccoli never grew a head last year (which was sickly/attacked by pests). It's a healthy plant, and I know it'll survive this harsh winter coming up. I mostly grow it for the health benefits and the hardiness of the leaves (won't become mushy when cooked in high heat). I'm also overwintering my healthiest Purple Beauty bell pepper plant (bought the seeds from Dollar Tree to give it a try), and am hoping it'll thrive next year. I also got Garlic cloves planted, which quite a few had sprouted greens due to abnormal warm Autumn, but it'll be okay once I get to mulching with fallen leaves. Cilantro greens are always slow going, so I'm planning to direct sow a lot more next time.
I keep trying, and hoping, but I have never, ever, had any luck growing any brassicas or even radishes. Tomatoes, potatoes, squash, beans, peas - YES!! But never a brassica! LOL Even my garlic does well! Thanks for the video, and best wishes to you! 👍
This is some great information and encouragement for people to grow their food year-round. I am in zone 5b-6 and have garlic growing on my windowsill and my outside the patio Garden for the first time hopefully it will grow well. As garlic is a long, long-growing plant I think that it has so many layers because it's putting on a jacket for winter the colder it gets the more layers the bigger the garlic head.
Thanks, Brian! Now I understand why I found a thriving parsley patch in one of my pots where I’d left a pitiful parsley plant huddling under cover from summer of 2022. We get in the teens here, occasionally lower, summer sun/heat is brutal so I throw a piece of fabric over plants muchof the year. I guess I’ll have parsley all year now!
The only things I can grow in the cold winter weather with absolutely no effort are weeds. 😠 Of course, they do even better in the warm growing season meant for growing my food crops. sigh.🙁 I enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for this temp info on these crops! I have many of them planted and growing well in my raised beds here in Texas. Fall gardening is the best! The bugs are gone and last year my crops did so well that I planted way more this year. Can't wait to be eating those fresh Lincoln peas! Now I know what temps to watch for to cover my cattle panels with plastic! Thanks so much! And I love Daisy!
I am in zone 8a in western central Arizona. This is the first winter that we are gardening. We’ve planted carrots, radishes, garlic and onions. We’ll be planting peas and herbs this week. I’ll add lettuce and see if I have broccoli seeds. Thank you!
My Purple Sprouting Brocolli and Chard survived -15C last year in the UK, I had some chard for my meal tonight with roast beef & gravy, carrot and swede mash and roast potatoes, topped with a dollop of mustard with the beef.
Too cold here in Pa where I live and sometimes I like to take a little break from outdoor gardening. I like to make plans and think about what I'm going to do for next season. My peas are still growing. Which I am excited about.
Thank you Brian As always very helpful info 👍 I like your wife also hate cilantro 😛 ha But like you love garlic so planted extra this year mmm Very helpful that you listed different veggies/lettuce for cold weather and temps they can Tolerate. I’m always looking that up Thank you again for all your hard work making videos And educating us
Kale is excellent for Daisy, my pig and ducks both love it. I love it too, my husband does not so I sneak it in my broccoli cheddar soup, make pesto with it (along with parsley and arugula) and braise it with lots of garlic. The type of kale is important, I don't grow curly kale, I don't like that one either but perennial tree kale that seems to be a kale/collard cross, Red Russian or Lacinato kale are milder and delicious.
I'm in S.Dakota. I'm not sure even a cold frame would save plants when the Polar Vortex rolls in. most Temps start with a - and then wind chills. I just draw my garden for when it warms up again. And watch Brian's videos & dream about spring. lol
I am in PEI Canada. We get down to -15-20C most winters for at least a month or 2. My Kale survives most of the winter until it is completely buried in snow, but it regrows very sweet leaves in early spring once the snow melts. I feed some to my chickens and dry some for the health benefits without dealing with the taste.
Since we can get to -10 to -15 here in eastern Oregon. My growing is limited to garlic and over wintering my herbs. We grow green onions in the kitchen year round for quick cooking needs.
Question: I live just outside Vancouver,. Our winters are pretty mild but wet. I would love to try growing these veggies now. My question is, will the seeds germinate if I direct sow?? Don't most of these seeds need to have a certain temperature in order to germinate? I hope you can help me with this question. I absolutely love your videos❤. You have taught me so much! Thank you!
Hey Leslie, for fall gardening in our zone (9b), its best to use starts rather than direct seeding. Some seeds will lie dormant, waiting for those magical 10-15C temperatures.....others will just rot in place. Don't chance it, use starter plants (you can make your own!).
Here in 8a New Mexico it can get pretty cold, down to 10 degrees. I do cabbage, lettuce, spinach, beets, carrots, turnips, different radishes including daikon, the hardy herbs like thyme, cilantro, and parsley, I'itoi onions, chard, kale, garlic,
Too bad we get below zero occasionally. Hard enough to keep the snow shoveled without worrying about a garden. 😊 Would be nice to have a bug free winter garden though!
Loved your winter crop information, I would love to grow more brassica's but I have had huge problem with aphids attacking my kale, cabbage, and cauliflower how can I prevent aphids from coming in my garden?
Thanks for the cold weather tips. I'm still eating kale that made it through last winter - one of the 'love em' crowd - kale omelette's several times a week :O) I'll continue harvesting until the snow has completely covered it (last year a good three feet over the garden) wondering if it will make it through a second winter. Also of special interest for me is the carrots info, and.....well, everything. Thanks as always, take care to all, including your new Daisy addition. 🇨🇦
My garden is full of pea volunteers, broccoli, garlic, onions, peppers (still not pulled up for overwinter but are happily producing). Ive seeded beets that didn’t germinate so going to start some indoors. Im chuckling at the okra plants that area still determined to produce! Oh and one bed has a ton of potatoes growing currently. A grandkid tossed potatoes in that bed when i pulled out tomato plants which grew crazy good tomatoes last summer. Will the potatoes growing there now ruin the bed for next years tomatoes? Im in zone 9 in the central CA valley.
Last year, I had Fordhook Swiss Chard, and Russian Scarlet Kale survive temperatures down to 7F, -13.9C. The plants were damaged, but recovered and thrived.
Frost fabric vs hoop house cover? I use hoops with my frost fabric to protect my plants. However, I thought I had read somewhere that the fabric gives better protection than plastic because plastic transfers the cold temps. I'd like to try to grow lettuce for the entire winter here in 7b, which material will provide the best protection? We get very little (if any) snow and it's usually only on the ground for a few days.
Another great video! I just left Florida, where I grew all year long. Moved to Georgia. Thought they would be similar growing since they are next door to each other 😂 nope not at all. I actually get a winter here
I am in North Alabama. U have onion and garlic growing. Can i start some brassica and lettuce seeds under the grow light and then set out or do you think it is too late?
I have a container garden in my driveway where the only summer sun hits the ground. Nothing would survive our winters, on average 20+ degrees for highs, zeros and below for lows. This is planning time, and basement seed starting set up.
I grew peas, but they were not sweet and the texture was pasty. What variety do you recommend, or do you suspect that I may have picked them too late??? I’m in So Cal.
Ha ! This is so small a world. Made a massive comment on a new prepper site - for making one's own DIY solar oven with cardboard boxes, aluminum foil, or mylar sheeting. One can use a solar oven/heater inside a hoop house, or other grow house for increased passive solar heating of the grow area. One can easily extend one's growing early Spring season and late Fall season up to 1+ months on each end. One only needs to make a conventional-sized, large, or HUGE solar oven/heater to take care of one's grow house, or hoop house, and grow all year around for cool/cold/freezing grow zones !
@hoosierpioneer Solar (cooking) ovens, usually in small sizes, can be massively upgraded into large or HUGE DIY solar heaters. Large and HUGE solar heaters can be easily and safely used in atriums, arboretums, aviaries, grow houses, hoop tunnels, or underground bunker growhouses. Larger and HUGE cardboard boxes, covered inside with aluminum foil or plastic mylar sheeting, provide effortless passive solar heating opportunities. If you have an option of grabbing up "2" used (thick) 3 x 3 x 3 foot (27 cubic feet) cardboard cargo boxes, these can be easily converted into a HUGE DIY solar heater. Such a size could be singularly used in a grow house. Multiple and smaller, or less and larger, solar heaters can easily be put around plants for daytime heating. Using 2 such boxes, like the smaller DIY conventional cardboard box solar oven designs, set up the first box as the base unit. Cut off the top folding lid flaps. Take the top box, and cut off the forward side of the box and sngle lid flap, leaving a "U" shape. The 2nd box is used for the top ceiling and side reflectors. Duct tape the bottom and back of the top box edge to the top and back of the bottom box edge. (3M spray) glue and attach the foil or mylar to the inside of the bottom box, and the top box ceiling and sides. This massive top box ceiling and sides allow one to adjust the sunlight angle for the greatest capture into the oven. One can vertically attach velcro dots or strips onto the outside of the bottom box, and the inside of the top box sides, allowing the top box angle to be fixed and the velcro strips to be attached for a firm and stable solar heater operation. Dismantling of this large or HUGE solar heater, just takes removing and folding down the top box flat, while picking up the bottom box, undo the bottom box lid flaps, fold, and lay flat. One can easily carry and store these anywhere, and less than 1-2 minutes have them reassembled into a functional solar heater elsewhere. So for those peeps in northern climates, grow zones Alaska, Canada, northern U.S. states, northern and central Europe (yeah - didn’t forget you !), … one could put a conventional, large, or HUGE solar heater into their grow house, or (Arctic tundra) underground bunker grow house. You could heat up the whole area for Spring;/Summer growing into cold/freezing winter months ! One could put these in their hoop houses and have 50-60+F temps - for extended early Spring and late Fall growing months ! One can also put in a metal pot with water - and allow this to humidify the growhouse with tropical heat-retaining moisture for even greater heating powers. So for those peeps in northern climates, conventional, large, and HUGE solar heaters in their grow areas can save large heating bills - through passive solar energy heating !!!!
We live in Texas, an hour south of Dallas. Our weather is ridiculous. We had 106*F for a good month in August-September. That is not unusual. Our winters are often considered mild, but in 2021(?) we had the worst Arctic week I’ve ever seen, with low temps of 20 below zero. And a bunch of snow. Our weather made national news because our infrastructure froze, and many, many people had no electricity and NO water! So many landscaping plants were flat-out killed. Anyway, that is not a normal winter for us. Some years the LOWS hang out around 30 degrees. So…. What to do?
We've had Temps down to 22F. Killed the baby chard, but the cabbage, mustard greens, and butter lettuce survive when covered. Holding out for the carrots. They're not growing that fast.
Our winters here (Houston Tx zone 9B) can sometimes be so short or so erratic (from the 30's to the 80's within a day or two) that we don't get much time to grow these winter vegetables, even the quick ones. I am hoping to have better luck this year. I have carrots, parsnips, lettuce, spinach and peas growing right now. I hope to plant turnips and radishes in another month or so but it isn't cold enough yet. I love cilantro but am not sure it will stay cold enough for that to grow. Next year I will try papalo, which is supposedly very similar to cilantro but is very heat tolerant. Heat, we have. I started parsley last July and kept it inside, under grow lights, in bags. It did SO WELL. I just transitioned it fully outside yesterday. I love perpetual chard, aka perpetual spinach. I had some growing over the summer and it did just fine; I planted out some more a week or two ago for a fresh crop. This will be a staple in my garden. I still have a bunch of tomatoes going and they're still producing. They're all determinates so they won't last through winter, sadly.
I live in the desert and I have been absolutely hating my garden lately. This video has me excited again. I can't wait to start my winter garden! Garlic, onions, cilantro! I'm going to have killer salsa next year!
Zone 8a here. In my winter garden we have broccolini, collards, swiss chard, spinach, kale, green onions, beets, carrots, and bokchoy.
In Zone 8b we grow cabbage, collards, mustards, turnips, peas, celery, radish, chives, shallots, bunching onions, broccoli, spinach, garlic, parsley, rosemary, sage, and kale. ❤❤❤
do you grow them in tunnels or in open environment
Thanks Brian! I appreciate telling us the temps! Blessings
Hello so glad I found your channel again. Your new little calf is as cute as you are.! Thanks for the info I’ll be growing, broccoli and beets!
Florida- but good to know, as my garden gets some shade in the winter.. ☺👍
Yes I agree. My garden can have a break from the destructive heat, not even the sun😂. Love Florida tho!
I made two cold frames for my two little 4x4 raised beds. I'm loving the fact that I have peas growing still! In 7a here, and it's protected them down to 26/27 F!! Hopefully I get at least some shoots to eat before it gets too cold. Can't wait for spring. Next year I'll plan for kale, cilantro, and spinach....
I took special care of my one Kale plant (direct sow this Spring) because my Broccoli never grew a head last year (which was sickly/attacked by pests). It's a healthy plant, and I know it'll survive this harsh winter coming up. I mostly grow it for the health benefits and the hardiness of the leaves (won't become mushy when cooked in high heat). I'm also overwintering my healthiest Purple Beauty bell pepper plant (bought the seeds from Dollar Tree to give it a try), and am hoping it'll thrive next year. I also got Garlic cloves planted, which quite a few had sprouted greens due to abnormal warm Autumn, but it'll be okay once I get to mulching with fallen leaves. Cilantro greens are always slow going, so I'm planning to direct sow a lot more next time.
I keep trying, and hoping, but I have never, ever, had any luck growing any brassicas or even radishes. Tomatoes, potatoes, squash, beans, peas - YES!! But never a brassica! LOL Even my garlic does well! Thanks for the video, and best wishes to you! 👍
This is some great information and encouragement for people to grow their food year-round. I am in zone 5b-6 and have garlic growing on my windowsill and my outside the patio Garden for the first time hopefully it will grow well. As garlic is a long, long-growing plant I think that it has so many layers because it's putting on a jacket for winter the colder it gets the more layers the bigger the garlic head.
You ceryainly covered everything thanks
Thanks, Brian! Now I understand why I found a thriving parsley patch in one of my pots where I’d left a pitiful parsley plant huddling under cover from summer of 2022. We get in the teens here, occasionally lower, summer sun/heat is brutal so I throw a piece of fabric over plants muchof the year. I guess I’ll have parsley all year now!
Same here.
The only things I can grow in the cold winter weather with absolutely no effort are weeds. 😠 Of course, they do even better in the warm growing season meant for growing my food crops. sigh.🙁
I enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for this temp info on these crops! I have many of them planted and growing well in my raised beds here in Texas. Fall gardening is the best! The bugs are gone and last year my crops did so well that I planted way more this year. Can't wait to be eating those fresh Lincoln peas! Now I know what temps to watch for to cover my cattle panels with plastic! Thanks so much! And I love Daisy!
thank you for useful information. new farm baby is so cute! 🤍🕊
I am in zone 8a in western central Arizona. This is the first winter that we are gardening.
We’ve planted carrots, radishes, garlic and onions. We’ll be planting peas and herbs this week. I’ll add lettuce and see if I have broccoli seeds.
Thank you!
My Purple Sprouting Brocolli and Chard survived -15C last year in the UK, I had some chard for my meal tonight with roast beef & gravy, carrot and swede mash and roast potatoes, topped with a dollop of mustard with the beef.
Too cold here in Pa where I live and sometimes I like to take a little break from outdoor gardening. I like to make plans and think about what I'm going to do for next season. My peas are still growing. Which I am excited about.
Thank you Brian
As always very helpful info 👍
I like your wife also hate cilantro 😛 ha
But like you love garlic so planted extra this year mmm
Very helpful that you listed different veggies/lettuce for cold weather and temps they can
Tolerate. I’m always looking that up
Thank you again for all your hard work making videos
And educating us
Kale is excellent for Daisy, my pig and ducks both love it. I love it too, my husband does not so I sneak it in my broccoli cheddar soup, make pesto with it (along with parsley and arugula) and braise it with lots of garlic. The type of kale is important, I don't grow curly kale, I don't like that one either but perennial tree kale that seems to be a kale/collard cross, Red Russian or Lacinato kale are milder and delicious.
I know this isn't the channel to say this but I can't wait to see how Bella and Daisy are getting along now.
This is a very helpful video! Thanks for posting.
I'm in S.Dakota. I'm not sure even a cold frame would save plants when the Polar Vortex rolls in. most Temps start with a - and then wind chills. I just draw my garden for when it warms up again. And watch Brian's videos & dream about spring. lol
I am in PEI Canada. We get down to -15-20C most winters for at least a month or 2. My Kale survives most of the winter until it is completely buried in snow, but it regrows very sweet leaves in early spring once the snow melts. I feed some to my chickens and dry some for the health benefits without dealing with the taste.
Absolutely needed this video. Thank you
My favorite winter crops are purple sprouting broccoli and peas (zone 9).
Great advise and wisdom! updates on the new farm babies!
Will do!
I mix my kale with some swiss chard and saute with onions, tomatoes and garlic try it and see if you still hate kale
Since we can get to -10 to -15 here in eastern Oregon. My growing is limited to garlic and over wintering my herbs. We grow green onions in the kitchen year round for quick cooking needs.
Question: I live just outside Vancouver,. Our winters are pretty mild but wet. I would love to try growing these veggies now. My question is, will the seeds germinate if I direct sow?? Don't most of these seeds need to have a certain temperature in order to germinate? I hope you can help me with this question. I absolutely love your videos❤. You have taught me so much! Thank you!
Hey Leslie, for fall gardening in our zone (9b), its best to use starts rather than direct seeding. Some seeds will lie dormant, waiting for those magical 10-15C temperatures.....others will just rot in place. Don't chance it, use starter plants (you can make your own!).
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thanks for the tip!!
@@leslieeriksen3847 no problem! :-)
Here in 8a New Mexico it can get pretty cold, down to 10 degrees. I do cabbage, lettuce, spinach, beets, carrots, turnips, different radishes including daikon, the hardy herbs like thyme, cilantro, and parsley, I'itoi onions, chard, kale, garlic,
Too bad we get below zero occasionally. Hard enough to keep the snow shoveled without worrying about a garden. 😊 Would be nice to have a bug free winter garden though!
Loved your winter crop information, I would love to grow more brassica's but I have had huge problem with aphids attacking my kale, cabbage, and cauliflower how can I prevent aphids from coming in my garden?
Thanks for the cold weather tips. I'm still eating kale that made it through last winter - one of the 'love em' crowd - kale omelette's several times a week :O) I'll continue harvesting until the snow has completely covered it (last year a good three feet over the garden) wondering if it will make it through a second winter. Also of special interest for me is the carrots info, and.....well, everything. Thanks as always, take care to all, including your new Daisy addition. 🇨🇦
My garden is full of pea volunteers, broccoli, garlic, onions, peppers (still not pulled up for overwinter but are happily producing). Ive seeded beets that didn’t germinate so going to start some indoors. Im chuckling at the okra plants that area still determined to produce! Oh and one bed has a ton of potatoes growing currently. A grandkid tossed potatoes in that bed when i pulled out tomato plants which grew crazy good tomatoes last summer. Will the potatoes growing there now ruin the bed for next years tomatoes? Im in zone 9 in the central CA valley.
Thank you Brian.
Here in Florida it's still too warm to grow any fall/winter crops. It's very frustrating.
Nice video!
Cabbage onions garlic N.C. it can get to 13- 18 degrees but mostly high 20s low 30s at night.
I love your channels ❤❤😊😊❤❤
Thanks Brian. 🦃🍁🍂💚🙃
My Swiss Chard survived last winter through a week of temps around -5F. It kept going into mid-springtime, then bolted.
Arizona
Last year, I had Fordhook Swiss Chard, and Russian Scarlet Kale survive temperatures down to 7F, -13.9C. The plants were damaged, but recovered and thrived.
Frost fabric vs hoop house cover? I use hoops with my frost fabric to protect my plants. However, I thought I had read somewhere that the fabric gives better protection than plastic because plastic transfers the cold temps. I'd like to try to grow lettuce for the entire winter here in 7b, which material will provide the best protection? We get very little (if any) snow and it's usually only on the ground for a few days.
Another great video! I just left Florida, where I grew all year long. Moved to Georgia. Thought they would be similar growing since they are next door to each other 😂 nope not at all. I actually get a winter here
I am in North Alabama. U have onion and garlic growing. Can i start some brassica and lettuce seeds under the grow light and then set out or do you think it is too late?
I didn’t plan ahead. So now I’m having to mail order all my seeds. Nothing local sales seeds after fall starts.
I have a container garden in my driveway where the only summer sun hits the ground. Nothing would survive our winters, on average 20+ degrees for highs, zeros and below for lows. This is planning time, and basement seed starting set up.
My beets failed to develop and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Could you do a video on beets?
I say (a little tongue-in-cheek) there are no love-it or hate-it vegetables just good cooks and bad cooks.
Where I live -30c is normal winter Temps.
I grew peas, but they were not sweet and the texture was pasty. What variety do you recommend, or do you suspect that I may have picked them too late??? I’m in So Cal.
Hi I wanted to ask if someone is allergic to crab and lobster meat would that affect the veggie? Can they still eat the veggie?
Ha ! This is so small a world. Made a massive comment on a new prepper site - for making one's own DIY solar oven with cardboard boxes, aluminum foil, or mylar sheeting. One can use a solar oven/heater inside a hoop house, or other grow house for increased passive solar heating of the grow area. One can easily extend one's growing early Spring season and late Fall season up to 1+ months on each end. One only needs to make a conventional-sized, large, or HUGE solar oven/heater to take care of one's grow house, or hoop house, and grow all year around for cool/cold/freezing grow zones !
OMG! Do you have a channel? Or plans for sale?
@hoosierpioneer Solar (cooking) ovens, usually in small sizes, can be massively upgraded into large or HUGE DIY solar heaters. Large and HUGE solar heaters can be easily and safely used in atriums, arboretums, aviaries, grow houses, hoop tunnels, or underground bunker growhouses. Larger and HUGE cardboard boxes, covered inside with aluminum foil or plastic mylar sheeting, provide effortless passive solar heating opportunities.
If you have an option of grabbing up "2" used (thick) 3 x 3 x 3 foot (27 cubic feet) cardboard cargo boxes, these can be easily converted into a HUGE DIY solar heater. Such a size could be singularly used in a grow house. Multiple and smaller, or less and larger, solar heaters can easily be put around plants for daytime heating.
Using 2 such boxes, like the smaller DIY conventional cardboard box solar oven designs, set up the first box as the base unit. Cut off the top folding lid flaps. Take the top box, and cut off the forward side of the box and sngle lid flap, leaving a "U" shape. The 2nd box is used for the top ceiling and side reflectors. Duct tape the bottom and back of the top box edge to the top and back of the bottom box edge. (3M spray) glue and attach the foil or mylar to the inside of the bottom box, and the top box ceiling and sides.
This massive top box ceiling and sides allow one to adjust the sunlight angle for the greatest capture into the oven. One can vertically attach velcro dots or strips onto the outside of the bottom box, and the inside of the top box sides, allowing the top box angle to be fixed and the velcro strips to be attached for a firm and stable solar heater operation.
Dismantling of this large or HUGE solar heater, just takes removing and folding down the top box flat, while picking up the bottom box, undo the bottom box lid flaps, fold, and lay flat. One can easily carry and store these anywhere, and less than 1-2 minutes have them reassembled into a functional solar heater elsewhere.
So for those peeps in northern climates, grow zones Alaska, Canada, northern U.S. states, northern and central Europe (yeah - didn’t forget you !), … one could put a conventional, large, or HUGE solar heater into their grow house, or (Arctic tundra) underground bunker grow house. You could heat up the whole area for Spring;/Summer growing into cold/freezing winter months ! One could put these in their hoop houses and have 50-60+F temps - for extended early Spring and late Fall growing months !
One can also put in a metal pot with water - and allow this to humidify the growhouse with tropical heat-retaining moisture for even greater heating powers.
So for those peeps in northern climates, conventional, large, and HUGE solar heaters in their grow areas can save large heating bills - through passive solar energy heating !!!!
What are Semi-determinate tomatoes
All the veggies you mentioned had to be planted back in August-October, correct?
Not necessarily.
We live in Texas, an hour south of Dallas. Our weather is ridiculous. We had 106*F for a good month in August-September. That is not unusual. Our winters are often considered mild, but in 2021(?) we had the worst Arctic week I’ve ever seen, with low temps of 20 below zero. And a bunch of snow. Our weather made national news because our infrastructure froze, and many, many people had no electricity and NO water! So many landscaping plants were flat-out killed.
Anyway, that is not a normal winter for us. Some years the LOWS hang out around 30 degrees. So…. What to do?
We've had Temps down to 22F. Killed the baby chard, but the cabbage, mustard greens, and butter lettuce survive when covered. Holding out for the carrots. They're not growing that fast.
Our winters here (Houston Tx zone 9B) can sometimes be so short or so erratic (from the 30's to the 80's within a day or two) that we don't get much time to grow these winter vegetables, even the quick ones. I am hoping to have better luck this year. I have carrots, parsnips, lettuce, spinach and peas growing right now. I hope to plant turnips and radishes in another month or so but it isn't cold enough yet.
I love cilantro but am not sure it will stay cold enough for that to grow. Next year I will try papalo, which is supposedly very similar to cilantro but is very heat tolerant. Heat, we have.
I started parsley last July and kept it inside, under grow lights, in bags. It did SO WELL. I just transitioned it fully outside yesterday.
I love perpetual chard, aka perpetual spinach. I had some growing over the summer and it did just fine; I planted out some more a week or two ago for a fresh crop. This will be a staple in my garden.
I still have a bunch of tomatoes going and they're still producing. They're all determinates so they won't last through winter, sadly.
Lettuce, kale, carrots, radishes!
You didn’t mention the actual temperature for beets..
But does they grow in cold?
Grow? Or keep alive? There's a difference.
I am not going to put up with this! You said cow!! Last time I checked that is not a vegetable!! Consider me unsubscribed!!!