Winter Vegetable Growing Ideas
When thinking of learning how to vegetable garden, thoughts firstly turn to those vegetables that are sown in spring and eaten through the summer and in to autumn.
However, there are vegetable varieties that the vegetable gardener can grow for winter consumption as suggested by Sarah Raven in her column in The Telegraph.
Chicory and kale are the kings of the winter veg patch
More of us should grow chicory. It looks wonderful in the winter veg garden and makes some of the best home-grown meals. It’s good raw in a mixed-leaf salad and even better cooked when the leaves lose their bitterness.
Following close behind in edible plant, winter glamour has to be the kales. The upright crinkled slate-coloured leaves of cavolo nero look their best at this time of year. Even if your plants were devastated by cabbage white caterpillars in the summer, they will recover and look fresh and beautiful right through the winter.
Add ‘Red Bor’ kale, always the biggest presence in my veg garden, and you’ll come to love the kale family for life and they supply another whole series of delicious winter meals.
clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk