Growing Winter Veg

apple_mint

Thank you everyone, I have some raddish seeds and I'll also sow another row of perpetual spinach. You've given me some great ideas

chrislee765

You can plant onions at this time of the year!

Murtle

chrislee765 wrote:

You can plant onions at this time of the year!

dumb question coming.....is that from seed??? I don't really know how onions grow...I am so ashamed

I know they grow in the ground, and that's about it!!!! :rotfl:

Magentasue

Ah, just about to mention onions. Best to buy sets (small bulbs), often called Japanese or Winter onion sets.

Also get garlic in now - cabbage can go in but might need a bit of protection. Last year we put fennel, cabbage and beetroot under cold frames. As the cabbage grew, we moved the frame off and covered them with straw from the hen house and put the fennel and beetroot under the frames. The beetroot was rubbish but we had good early crops of onions, cabbage and fennel. A couple of old windows from a double glazing place will do as a cold frame.

If you have empty space, try sprouted chick peas. You can eat the leaves but we just used them for the chickens. In the spring, we just dug them in. Supposed to be good forthe soil and stopped the weeds. We used ordinary chickpeas from the supermarket, sprouted them in the kitchen and threw them over the empty bed and covered with soil.

Am thinking about putting few more leeksin, too late in theory but worth a go if it's only a few seeds lost.

culpepper

if you wanted to get onion sets in,try wilkinsons.I bought mine in there last week for 65p a packet of 50.They are sold out in my branch but you might be lucky elsewhere.Also you can still plant garlic.I just bought some from the supermarket and seperated the cloves and planted them.