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8 postsTwo hardy roots almost no one grows anymore: sow parsnip and black salsify in spring, harvest them all winter, and frost even makes them sweeter. Here is how to grow them well.
Kale, Brussels sprouts, corn salad and parsnip stand in the bed all winter and taste even sweeter after frost. Here is how to harvest fresh from the snow without the leaves turning to mush.
Lamb's lettuce takes over the empty beds from late summer and supplies fresh, nutty greens into spring. The most common mistake is sowing too early and too warm. Here is how the cold germinator sprouts and how you harvest all winter.
When the summer lettuce is done, the time of the bitter salads begins. Endive, sugarloaf, radicchio and Belgian chicory are sown in summer and harvested from autumn to winter. Here is how to tame the bitterness, blanch endive and force chicory in the cellar.
Chinese cabbage and pak choi are fast Asian brassicas for the autumn harvest. Sown in summer they bolt, from late July they behave. Here is how to use the long-day trick, protect the young plants from flea beetles and fill an empty bed in a few weeks.
Spinach does not tolerate long summer days: in long days it bolts and turns bitter. So you sow it in two windows, in spring and in late summer to autumn. Here is how both sowings succeed, how the autumn spinach overwinters and how the leaves stay tender.
Brussels sprouts stand in the bed for almost half a year before the first sprouts are ripe. Two things decide firm versus loose sprouts: a firm soil and topping the growing tip in autumn. Here is how the patience crop succeeds into winter.
Kale is the most honest winter-vegetable classic: winter-hardy, healthy and fresh when other beds are empty. What really happens with the cold stimulus, why a hard frost is not necessary at all, and how to crop it from the bottom up from planting to winter harvest.
