What can I grow in Greenhouse in winter?

Rummer

Thank you all for your suggestions! I just wanted to double check what did you grow your cabbages/carrots in? My greenhouse has a solid floor all round and I just wondered if you had planted into the border or used pots?

jamanda

We've got some big square plastic bins. We use for tomatoes and cucumber and then I hijacked them last winter to play with. You're not going to feed a large family from it, but it helps out.

Also, my Dad told me to ensure ventilation (i.e. window open). Cabbages and carrots seemed slow, but I got some at a time when they were expensive to buy. Salad leaves were also useful when they were expensive.

Rummer

Thank you for that advice, I went out today and got the 8 flowers buckets for £1 from Morrisons and some 60p seeds from woolies so that I am ready to plant my greenhouse up when the summer stuff has passed its best. Actually that is a point when should I be sowing the over winter things for the greenhouse???

~Chameleon~

Thanks for starting this thread :T

I was wondering what I might be able to grow in the greenhouse over winter as I've notyet planned my winter veg properly this year. I have some sprouts growing and purple sprouting broccoli, although that seems to have forgotten it's not yet winter and we've been eating it for the past few weeks

I will be sowing autumn onion sets and garlic as I did last year, and will have a look down the nursery for some cabbages as I didn't get around to sowing any this summer, but it's great to know I can sow more carrots and salad leaves etc in the greenhouse :j

Rummer

Just following the theme what apart from herbs can you grow successfully on a sunny window ledge indoors, is it the same as the greenhouse or are there more options?

RAS

Alphie

There a a good article in an old Organic gardening mag on growing cut and come again salads in small pots.

The author used polystrene cups like this used for soup in Chinese takeaways? They have a good sized lip, so when one is stacked inside the other, there is a space in the lower pot for water. make small holes in the inner pot and fill it with soil. then water it ia the lower pot/reservoir rather than on the soil surface.

Sow, lettuce, beets or kales for leaves, or salad herbs.

In a greenhouse, you can grow, rocket, lambs lettuce, salad burnet, smooth leaved kapes, beets, swisschard or perpetual spinach, spring cabbage, early broad beans and peas, all sorts of chinese and other mustards etc.

One local gardener recommends bringing in the old hanging baskets and planting them with peas, that then trail over the sides. This kkeps them out of reach of rodents.

~Chameleon~

I was wondering what people's thoughts were on growing winter brassicas (kale, calabrese, cabbage) directly in the ground in an unheated greenhouse?

I have a terrible problem with whitefly in my garden and they've already infested my sprouts so I'm very reluctant to put my winter brassicas in the garden as I know they'll be covered within days

Farway

Never done it, but my gut instinct is the whitefly would love a nice sheltered greenhouse more than outside, they do on tomatoes for instance

poppet

What would you rcmd i plant now in the greenhouse?

Its an nunheated greenhouse - but I could heat it if there were something growing in there worth heating it for.

Lotus-eater

Wow, I have visions of nuns in a big hamster type wheel, heating the greenhouse! :rotfl:

There is a good book called the greenhouse expert, I would recommend it.

However, I have the book and I still don't know what to put in my greenhouse atm. Maybe I should read the book better. There was a thread somewhere on kitchen garden, I'll see if I can find it.

Here it is, my tomatoes will be coming out soon and I need to pull my finger out.
http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5537