There are plenty of edibles that you can plant in wintertime including garlic leeks onions radishes lettuce peas potatoes chard spinach rhubarb and other leafy greens such as bok choy and kale.
Winter vegetable garden plants.
Extending your growing season is also a great way to enjoy winter vegetables.
The general rule of thumb for planting a winter vegetable garden in zones 7 to 10 is to plant during october.
Growing winter vegetablesallows you to extend the season and many vegetables that can be grown in winter will produce earlier crops than spring plantings.
The best producing winter vegetable garden is one that is well planned.
In zone 6 get plants in the ground in late september.
Winter vegetables need a solid start before winter arrives because once cold dark days settle in plants won t grow gangbusters like they do in the summer months.
The camelia or camelia japonica is almost synonymous with the cold winter season.
Camelia is also a shade plantgrowing well in acidic soil.
For best flavor harvest them when they re 4 inches tall.
This evergreen shrub thrives even in winter when few plants do giving life to a bare garden.
If you ve already planted these yummy treats then you can harvest them straight through winter.
Watering these plants with rainwater would be ideal.
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It is important to know your first frost date as well as the time it takes for your chosen vegetables to mature.
If you were really organised in late spring early summer then you will have already grown some winter vegetable plants such as winter cabbage kaleand brussels sprouts.