The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Factotum on January 05, 2015, 08:56:47 pm
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Today I picked some Sungold toms - not very sweet, so the chucks had a treat which seemed to be much prized.
The carrots and parsnips have been eaten by Brer Rabbit or possibly Badger - a bit of a disappointment as the carrots were very sweet and we hadn't got to try the parsnips yet.
I have a cauliflower from last year (!) that seems reluctant to stop producing small heads, and my brussel plant is offering the smallest, sweetest sprouts.
What else could I grow over winter here (NE Scotland, 250m up in the hills)?
Sue
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winter salads, sow broad beans for early cropping in the new year, radishes, any winter brassicas.
You could also try tatties for Christmas.
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Kale, kale and more kale! Also PSB (late) for cropping in April. Leeks. all of these are for outdoors though...
In p/tunnel you could try winter salads, I find the mice/rats will have most of mine and we do get harsh frosts. My chard usually crops until January.
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If we're going to have winters this mild and wet I should try for rice :roflanim:
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Sorry for not replying before...
PT cover has been savaged by the gales and has great holes in the ends and the poultry are using it as a day shelter.
Methinks we'll need to replace the cover before the Spring.
I don't grow much outside up here as it's quite windy even in the summer - except when 'm pulling the ragwort in the fields, when it often goes very still and the midges descend!
Have to get more/better organised.
Many thanks for the replies.
Sue