On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:46:27 GMT, Ginger Gooner wrote:

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New to gardening,

And to newsgroups, I see. harumph!


I have a nice plot of land in my garden that i have used this year for veg
had some nice crops of carrots beans peas sweetcorn etc but most now past
there best and have cleared what was left away.
Have dug up the plot and all very tidy but rather than waste the space over
the Winter is there anything i can plant out that will grow in the cold
weather and frost ready for spring????

Winter veggie gardening is a fairly common practice here. I've
never bothered except for garlic, but one of my former cow-orkers
was a practitioner.

Some of his suggestions, as I remember them:

fall-sown broadbeans - even if the top growth of the seedlings
gets frozen, they'll regrow from below.

beets - leave in ground; make borscht from them even if they're
woody and inedible.

kale

swiss chard

cabbages


As for garlic, the old adage is "plant on the shortest day of the
year, harvest on the longest day of the year."

As our winters are about the same temp as the more reasonable
parts of the UK, these may work for you.

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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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