Have You Ever Tried Growing Vegetables In The Winter?
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no greenhouse, no artificial heat. Tell me what you grew, and the coldest temperature it could tolerate.
i have grown spinach and if properly hardened off it could take a hard freeze down to 20 degrees F!
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I grew up in Texas and we kept our fields busy during the winter! We usually had cabbage, onions, garlic, spinach and lettuce growing all winter. Cold wasn’t our problem, it was heat! None of those crops do very well once temperatures exceed 70F. and in the summer we’d go well over 100F.!
As to cold temperatures? The only crop we had trouble with in winter was the lettuce since it dies at freezing. Nothing else ever had problems, the coldest I ever recall it getting down to was 17F. The reason I recall that temperature is because he were out in freezing drizzle hand harvesting cabbage (bleah).
In my own garden down there I kept carrots growing throughout the winter and one year I kept a Peruvian heirloom tomato going. I know that one could handle overnight temperatures down to 15F. as long as it went above freezing during the daytime. It was a lot of fun taking neighbors fresh tomatoes in January.
Cole crops are your best bet. Broccoli, cauliflower, etc.
I’m in CA so we only rarely get freezes here but you can use things like cold frames and raised beds and grow lots of different kinds of veges.
There’s a great book called, Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
by Eliot Coleman
Amazon has it. Also Ed Smith, who wrote The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible (one of my favorite gardening books) has lot of info about growing all year long and he lives in Vermont.
You could also check out http://www.seedsofchange.com – they have a great bulletin board and everyone is really helpful.
Good luck!