Clever supplies you with ten types of vegetables that you can also grow in winter
Created: 11/23/2022, 5:30 p.m
By: Ines Alms
Stocking up is all well and good.
Even better: In the cold season, plant vegetables that provide fresh food in early spring.
1 / 10Rhubarb is very hardy, the plants can still be planted in the ground on mild days in November.
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2 / 10Even in November and February it is possible to plant garlic cloves.
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3 / 10 Sweet grasses such as barley or wheat grass also germinate in winter, especially in raised beds.
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4 / 10Almost forgotten vegetable: the chervil beet (Chaerophyllum bulbosum) is a frost germ and can still be sown in December.
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5 / 10Spinach, like radishes, can be sown in the cold frame as early as January.
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6 / 10Sea kale (Crambe maritima) is sown outdoors in November or December.
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7 / 10 Microgreens – the young vegetables from broccoli, peas & Co. are ready to harvest after two weeks.
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8 / 10If you sow carrots directly into the bed in February, you can harvest them from May.
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9 / 10Harvesting and cultivation of the Jerusalem artichoke go hand in hand: the tubers can still be planted before the first frost.
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10 / 10The name says it all: Winter purslane also thrives in cold beds or greenhouses.
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In November or December you can still harvest vegetables, fine, but grow them?
That's fine.
Often there are rather unusual varieties that defy the hard soil and the cold.
Some even need the frost to germinate at all.
Anyone who owns a raised bed or greenhouse has a clear advantage, as they offer more warmth.
And in the cold frame, for example, vegetables for the next season can be grown as early as January.
But there is also a lot to plant or sow in the field, especially in the increasingly mild winters.
This photo gallery features old and new strains that germinate while others are still dormant.
