Don’t Delay, Sow Today! Winter Vegetable Seedlings Emerge in just 1 Week
Posted on 06. Sep, 2009 by Tracey in Grow Veg, My Veg Plot
The late summer warm weather is now assisting my winter vegetable sowings and my tiny little seedlings of Pak Choi, Mustard Greens, Endive, Japanese Kale and Pointy Spring Cabbage have appeared in just 1 Week!
If you haven’t tried growing winter vegetables before, why not try it this year?
I’ve produced five new comprehensive How To Grow Veg Guides, to help you sow, grow and harvest your Winter Vegetables. My How To Guides are packed with step by step sowing instructions, varieties I’m growing and other suggestions, growing tips and pest and diseases information.
- Growing Pak Choi
- Growing Mustard Greens
- Growing Salad Endive
- Growing Winter Lettuce
- Growing Winter Spinach
Salad Endive
6 Reasons to Start Growing Winter Vegetables Now!
- Winter Vegetables are easy and quick to grow. Try Pak Choi, Mustard Greens and Endive for quick winter vegetables within 6-12 weeks. Try sowing in pots to put in your mini greenhouse.
- Winter vegetables don’t need as much attention as summer vegetables. If you are growing them in raised beds, the weather waters your crop for you. Although its always worth keeping an eye out just in case we have an Indian summer.
- Buck the trend! Some people consider vegetable growing to be over in September. I totally disagree, there’s still lots of vegetables to be sown and harvested Oct – Dec and to sow or plant for an early crop next year. There’s nothing better than to harvest cabbages, garlic, onions, peas or broad beans in April to June so early in the year.
- Extend your salads season into the autumn and winter by sowing Winter Lettuce, Winter Spinach and Endive.
- Try growing a vegetable you’ve never grown before i.e. I’m growing mustard greens this year and I’ve never tried them before or try a new variety of a winter vegetable you grew last year i.e. Pak Choi – I’m trying Green Boy this year or try a yellow variety called Santoh.
- If you are growing winter vegetables in your raised beds, there will be less weeding to do!
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I'm Tracey Bacon from Essex, UK, author of iGrowVeg.com
I'm an avid vegetable grower, writer and tweeter. I aim to show that anyone can grow their own vegetables at home on a windowsill, in pots or raised beds.
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Sarah Knowles
04. Oct, 2009
Hi Tracey, just wanted to say how much I love your site and since coming across it I have referred to it constantly.
I started growing veg for the first time this year and what a wonderful learning curve it’s been. Yes, some failures; notably tomatoes with blight, which was upsetting! Sulky herbs, and my runner beans gave up after we went away for week during the only warm week in August.
But amazing courgettes, spinach, chard, spring onions and we still haven’t picked the last of our cucumbers! And today I dug up garlic (planted on a whim, in April, I think) more in hope than expectation, to find big bulbs packed full of cloves! I thought they were supposed to need frost, but seemingly not!
I was keen to build on everything I’d learned and didn’t want the fun to stop either, so I looked into what I could sow to extend the going season. Although slightly behind yours, my Japanese kale and red mustard are going great guns. Also have winter lettuce, spring onions and over-wintering sprouting broccoli coming up and next month broad beans and some more garlic will go in.
Thanks for a great site and best of luck to you and every one else on a growing adventure!
Sarah x