Garden Vegetables
Garden Vegetables
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How To Over Winter Garden Vegetables
Learn How to Prepare Your Garden Beds for the Winter Growing Season
Basic gardening isn't that complicated. However, there comes a time in any avid gardener's life when they want to explore the limits of gardening. In this case, they may encounter the need to over-winter some types of garden vegetables. While a certain amount of preparation is necessary, it isn't hard if you pay attention to this gardening advice and follow the correct procedures.
Not every type of vegetable can be over-wintered.
The best candidates include firm root crops, like carrots or potatoes, as well as cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower.
- In addition, any plant that takes two seasons to produce viable seed will need to be over-wintered and replanted before a seed crop is possible.
- Delicate plants like lettuce, tomatoes and summer squash cannot be over-wintered. If it won't last in your fridge longer than a few weeks, it won't hold up to extended storage either.
You must first prepare your vegetables for storage.
- Many smart individuals plan ahead and shop around for discount or high quality, but affordable greenhouses for sale, which can be as low as twenty dollars and as high as three thousand dollars.
- If the plant is going back into the ground in the spring, you will want to pull up the entire plant, with the root intact. Items like potatoes and carrots can be stored with only the root present, as this is the part of the plant that will be regenerated.
Once your vegetables are pulled and trimmed, if necessary, you must have a cool, dark place for them to spend the winter.
Some people pack the vegetables in straw or sand; both methods do a great job of preserving the plants until spring.
- They also help keep the plant slightly moist, while absorbing excessive wetness that can cause rotting and mold.
- These containers should be placed in a basement area, cold storage room or root cellar.
- The area should stay cool, but above freezing, for the entire winter.
- Check the plants regularly and adjust the storage method if it becomes necessary.
About the Author
Whitney Segura is the founder and CEO of Best Garden Gifts, a family owned manufacturer and distributor of greenhouse kits, hydroponics equipment, composting supplies, and garden containers, to customers living in the United States.
I want to start my own little vegetable garden, what are some good vegetables to plant this season?
I'm a first time gardener.
I live in Ohio if climate matters, and I want it to be outdoors. Veggies that are relatively easy to grow would be nice. I want to save a little on my grocery bill and I also just like the idea of growing my own food. Thanks!
Tomatoes, broccoli, bush beans, cucumbers, peppers are all easy vegetables to grow.
Broccoli likes cool weather so early planting works well - you have to cut it before it flowers which will happen if the weather is too warm.
Beans and cucumber seeds need the ground to be warm to germinate. I grow my cukes on a piece of fence so they grow upward instead of sprawling all over.
Tomatoes need to be staked.
Each year you need to rotate the garden plot so veggies are in another spot.
Use black plastic to keep down weeds and keep moisture in the ground. I cut coffee can size holes when planting the veggies. Good luck. You will love it.
