Growing Winter Vegetables: 15 Varieties That Grow Wonderfully Even When It's Cold
Created: 09/29/2022, 2:30 p.m
By: Andrea Stettner
Even in winter, hobby gardeners can grow their own vegetables in the garden or on the balcony.
Rely on frost-hardy vegetables.
Freshly harvested vegetables from your own garden - this is also possible in winter.
Many types of vegetables defy frost and snow and provide plenty of vitamins on the plate in the cold season.
Going to the supermarket is therefore much less necessary.
In the following, we will explain which winter vegetables are suitable for growing in your garden at home and what you should bear in mind.
Red cabbage is one of the vegetables that grow wonderfully even in winter.
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Vegetables suitable for winter cultivation
Anyone who grows their own vegetables in winter lives much healthier.
Vegetables from the supermarket often have long transport routes behind them, which not only harms the environment - the nutrient content also drops significantly.
Anyone who grows seasonal vegetables themselves is therefore optimally supplying their body with vitamins and vital substances.
Typical winter vegetables include various types of cabbage, root vegetables and leafy vegetables.
The really hardy varieties include:
spinach
Lamb's lettuce
parsnips
salsify
Kale
Cauliflower
savoy
leek
You should harvest these types of vegetables in good time at really low temperatures or warm them up with a garden fleece:
Kohlrabi
Red cabbage and white cabbage
carrots
chard
celery
winter onions
garlic
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You have to keep this in mind when growing in winter
When growing winter vegetables, amateur gardeners must pay particular attention to the date of the first frost.
Vegetables grow slowly at low temperatures or even stop growing altogether.
If you start sowing or planting too late, the plantlets will not reach the desired size.
In the worst case, the winter vegetables even die completely because the plants do not yet have the necessary winter hardiness, as the
Plantura
garden portal informs.
Therefore, make sure to plant the winter vegetables early enough before the first frost.
So should
fast-growing vegetables (e.g. rocket, lamb's lettuce, spinach) for at least one and a half months,
medium-fast growing (e.g. kale, kohlrabi, leeks) two and a half months and
slow-growing varieties (e.g. Brussels sprouts, beetroot, parsnips) three and a half months before the first frost
be sown.
Ideally, you should plant the vegetables as a mixed culture in the bed to prevent pests and diseases.
