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evaelisabethIt's amazing how much produce you can get out of your garden even if you are terribly late with planting and putting in beds on the fly as you go.
Sometimes its just too late, if you are planing to harvest produce from your garden over winter your plants need to be done with the majority of their growth by end of October. Our white and red cabbages were just too late, they may still produce something in spring but not very much. The Savoy Cabbages went in earlier in the season and were harvested in Fall with excellent success.
Certain salads can survive almost anything given a bit of protection. We put in corn salad (lamb's ear lettuce or maché) which survived -10C and pretty heavy snow for a few weeks with only a bit of fleece for cover. We've had about 80% survival rate for some of our other winter lettuces which are under a cloche.
We need to protect our overwintering crops not just from freezing temperatures but also from pigeons. We had lovely purple sprouting broccoli in the ground which might have survived the frost if the pigeons hadn't made a lunch of it.
Cats can be very irritating to a gardener, netting is your friend.
Over here you just have to have a polytunnel or glass house if you are planning to grow tomatoes, aubergines or salad cucumbers, the climate is just not warm enough for long enough to support them otherwise.
The good news is that our new 3mx6m polytunnel is going in this Thursday, I can't wait.
Sometimes its just too late, if you are planing to harvest produce from your garden over winter your plants need to be done with the majority of their growth by end of October. Our white and red cabbages were just too late, they may still produce something in spring but not very much. The Savoy Cabbages went in earlier in the season and were harvested in Fall with excellent success.
Certain salads can survive almost anything given a bit of protection. We put in corn salad (lamb's ear lettuce or maché) which survived -10C and pretty heavy snow for a few weeks with only a bit of fleece for cover. We've had about 80% survival rate for some of our other winter lettuces which are under a cloche.
We need to protect our overwintering crops not just from freezing temperatures but also from pigeons. We had lovely purple sprouting broccoli in the ground which might have survived the frost if the pigeons hadn't made a lunch of it.
Cats can be very irritating to a gardener, netting is your friend.
Over here you just have to have a polytunnel or glass house if you are planning to grow tomatoes, aubergines or salad cucumbers, the climate is just not warm enough for long enough to support them otherwise.
The good news is that our new 3mx6m polytunnel is going in this Thursday, I can't wait.