This morning after my Albertsons Double Coupon Shopping trip {I’ll post it in a little bit}, I headed out to the garden to transplant all the rainbow Swiss chard I’ve been growing in the greenhouse.
Since my winter growing options are limited, I’m just going to go for it and grow anything and everything I can in the garden this winter. Whether we like it or not. The way I see it, we have the space, and I have the time, so I might as well grow some food.
Even if it means feeding it to our chickens this winter, or donating it to a soup kitchen, someone, or something, will eat it.
Are you trying to grow any veggies this winter?
If so, what are you growing? Maybe you have thought of something I haven’t.
~Mavis
The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook~Amazon
Laura says
Mavis, how about sugar snap peas. That’s a cool weather veg. I’ve got some coming up now.
Mavis says
I have some growing in the greenhouse right now. I hope they make it.
Jane of all trades says
You could try growing sprouts indoors. If you sprout dried beans they don’t cost much and will weigh more then alfalfa sprouts. You could also grow wheat grass under your grow lights to juice. Both of those are ready to harvest very fast so you could put a dent in your remaining poundage. I think you can dehydrate beans that are barely sprouted and keep them for later.You use them like regular dried beans but they cook a lot quicker and are suppose to be a lot more nutritious. You could also see if a juice bar wants to buy the wheat grass. I really hope you can achieve your goal!!
Robin Welch says
I have swiss chard, onions, garlic, beets, broccoli raab, kale, small french green beans, assorted herbs so far. Will add to these as soon as I figure out what else I want to grow. This will be my second year of year round gardening. Loved being able to go out in the backyard and get veggies all year. The growth rate slows down considerably but we’ve got the dirt so why not?
Lucky L says
Parnsips. You might be able to still start some in your raised beds. They are supposed to over winter and be harvested in February or something. Here in frozen tundra of Northern MN and at a community garden I started them in June and have started to harvest them in September. If it starts to get too cold and snow, then I will have to dig all of them up since the ground freezes rock hard solid around here and we’d have to snowshoe in to the comm garden ;p
Erika says
Here in southern AZ, we just pulled our sweet potatoes – 56.4 lbs out of a single 6′ x 2′ x 18″ raised bed garden – wow! Roma tomato has another round going, carrots and lettuce are doing well next to each other in two more beds, red potatoes in a large container garden, green beans (on a tower and just starting to flower) and sugar snap peas in another 6′ container, and I just moved our smallish (hopefully not too big to transplant) butternut squash plants in where the sweet potatoes were. The strawberries are still putting out runners like crazy – I’m really hoping for berries next year since all they did was grow and grow and grow this summer with no fruit at all.