Do you have a winter vegetable garden at home? Or maybe a little piece of land somewhere where you do your planting? Then you’ve come to the right place.
Do you like to do things alone and harvest the fruits of your labor the way you want them; fresh and organic?
We will teach you how to grow some plants in the middle of winter, even if you sometimes think this season is not for it.
Ten examples, Ten vegetables, and Ten pieces of information that you might find intriguing.
The cold weather allows for the seeds to lay dormant in the soil. This means that the process is a bit complicated, But worry not! Everything is possible these days:
– Use containers such as outdoor mini-greenhouses to simulate their growth in their natural habitat and give a head start to the spring harvest.
– You can also start in flower beds
– Plastic pots and egg cartons can be very effective at first
– Make sure the soil is not frozen
– If the cold is intense, do it in January, for example, it will be perfect to mimic natural germination conditions
Now that you know a little more about the subject, let’s find out together which seeds to grow. We’ll have to choose carefully:
– Carrots: they convert their starches to sugar to protect against cold damage and that’s what gives them a sweeter taste
– Broccoli: More precisely, the hardy purple-sprouting broccoli
– Savoy cabbage: To be transplanted as soon as you notice about six adult leaves
– Bunching onions: For a spring harvest, sowing should be done in a bed, but if it is for winter, go for containers
– Spinach: Resistant vegetable, to be sown in autumn to harvest in winter
– Peas: They improve the soil by fixing nitrogen when sown in winter
– Radishes: beautiful and crunchy like daikon
– Leeks: Their flavor is better in winter than summer.
– Peas: They improve the soil by fixing nitrogen when sown in winter
– Radishes: beautiful and crunchy like daikon
– Leeks: Their flavor is better after frost, and they are also able to grow in the snow
We hope to have brought good news for gardeners and gardening enthusiasts, and even if you aren’t, why hesitate still? No time to waste. Start today, while we’re in the middle of winter.
Happy harvesting!
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