over winter growing veg

cyclonebri1

Apart from onion sets that I tried last year, what else is suitable to grow over winter, but give me a chance to get them out of the ground for other stuff main season.

Only grow vedge in a couple of raised beds so space is ltd

gazza975526570

well there are cabbages and caulis - not sure if you have room for these.

How about spring onions (though they would need to be in quickish - (white lisbon) should still just get a crop if a decent autumn)

Got any strawberry runners you can put in? Some salad perhaps?

cyclonebri1

gazza975526570 wrote: »

well there are cabbages and caulis - not sure if you have room for these.

How about spring onions (though they would need to be in quickish - (white lisbon) should still just get a crop if a decent autumn)

Got any strawberry runners you can put in? Some salad perhaps?

Yep onions and spring onions are the 1's we have done and will do again.

Cabage etc, I don't like so won't bother thanks.
Also can't make economic sense of strawberries.

Someone said leeks? any views?

Cheers man.

gazza975526570

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Yep onions and spring onions are the 1's we have done and will do again.

Cabage etc, I don't like so won't bother thanks.
Also can't make economic sense of strawberries.

Someone said leeks? any views?

Cheers man.

Yeah you could have done leeks but much too late for this year as you need to sow them around February - you could next year. Near me they get no attacks by bugs and you can be eating them overwinter so perhaps give them a go next year.

You could probably still do some carrots? Ive just sowed some more dwarf french beans - hopefull i will get something from them if the weather stays nice as they can grow quick.

You can overwinter peas - but prob not worth it with a small piece of land.

there is a winter raddish - never grown it but its called mooli - may be worth a look?

cut and come again salad - though i ted to have more luck with it when a bit cooler.

Hope this helps

botchjob

Yup, too late for leeks unless you can find some pretty large seedlings somewhere. This autumn I'll be putting in shallots, onions (electric red and rador), garlic, as well as some spring cabbage. I tried peas last year but they all died. Oh, and some purple sprouting broccoli, although too late to start from scratch for those.

grrmich

Last year I sowed broad beans in Autumn, and they did really well. They were finished by May, and I had some courgette plants ready to fill their space.

You can also sow American land cress (tastes similar to water cress) and lambs lettuce.

DT browns currently have a sale on winter brassica plants.

Urban allotments have autumn/ winter veg plugs as well.
http://www.urban-allotments.com/Autumn-Vegetables/69-S/default.html

kitcat80

Prob a silly question, but do I need to do anything special to overwinter onions? Do they need to be covered or in a greenhouse oranything or just straight into the soil? Also, when should I plant and when are they ready? Do I need to look for a special type?

Thanks

rum1

Broad beans as already suggested and i normally plant my Garlic in the ground around October time.

poorly_scammo

I've planted miner's lettuce - winter hardy.

Will be planting onions and garlic.

I don't have the space for winter caulis and cabbages sadly.