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What can you do in the vegetable plot in winter ?
• Sow spring vegetables (under cover)
• Sow spring vegetables (in the open air)
• Sow winter vegetables
• What can you do in the vegetable plot in autumn ?
• What can you do in the vegetable plot in winter ?
• What can you do in the vegetable plot in spring ?
• What can you do in the vegetable plot in summer ?
• The companionship of vegetables
• The 'permaculture', for an easier vegetable garden!
• Vegetables in pots
• How to harvest a maximum of pot-grown vegetables
• Sow aromatic herbs in pots
• Grow aromatic plants in pot
• Succeeding in growing tomatoes
• Combine vegetables with flowers
• Vegetable seed sowing calendar
• Herb seeds sowing calendars
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In winter, the vegetable plot is calm. However there are things to do, if only to get it ready for spring!
Tasks that need doing
There are not plentiful but important to gain time and ensure that the vegetable plot is healthy!
- Harvest the vegetables which have reached maturity: winter salads (lamb's lettuce in particular) will soon become inedible, harvest them quickly. Do the same with all the vegetables still in good state: cabbages, turnips, beetroots, carrots, leeks...
- Remove the vegetables which are damaged: they can harbour diseases and later on, their pulling off might become troublesome if they rot!
- Remove what remains of last year plantations: tomatoes and other remaining vegetables from the summer which cannot be left in situ for the same reasons.
Winter vegetables (Lamb's lettuce, beetroots) do not withstand hard frost.
Remains are real diseases' nests!
Pass the hoe after adding a soil-enriching agent (here, wood's ashes).
Recommended tasks
- Weed the soil: Plenty of weeds growing during the close season, they are easier to remove when they are small and the ground is supple. Often using a hoe is enough to get reed of them: 5 minutes work now which is going to take 1 hour more in April!
- Bring in some soil-enriching agent: Manure, lime (in sandy soil), wood' ashes (1kg per 5 m²) or compost which improves the soil's texture. Now is the best time to do it if you are planning to do it (and it is highly recommended!).
- Hoe the ground: if you do not have the time or the wish to dig, at least do try to hoe the places where you have removed vegetables or weeded.
Plant your Jerusalem artichokes in winter.
What can you plant?
Vegetables plantations are still limited. However, you can plant onions, shallots, garlic, asparagus (their plantation is delicate), Jerusalem artichokes, strawberry's plants and rhubarb.
The end of winter is also favourable to the setting of all hardy perennials aromatic plants: chives, tarragon, fennel, oregano and thyme. Wait a little while longer before planting sage and rosemary (spring must really have arrived).
Chives are early starters!
What can you sow?
Some vegetables require cold in order to germinate like parsley, parsnips, root chervil, chervil and broad beans.
When spring approaches, sow the vegetables which are harvested early: early carrots, garden peas, radishes (providing you place them under a cloche in colder climates and mountainous areas).
