10 best vegetables to grow over winter

Winter vegetable developing enables you to expand the season and numerous vegetables that can be developed in winter will create prior harvests than spring plantings.

In the event that you were truly sorted out in pre-summer/late-spring then you will have just developed some winter vegetable plants, for example, Winter Cabbage, Kale and Brussels Sprouts. These will be well under path by fall and you will as of now have begun planting your winter vegetables outside.

However, don't stress in the event that it escaped your attention - there are bunches of scrumptious vegetables to develop in winter that can be as yet planted this harvest time.

Vegetables to develop outside in winter

Most winter vegetable plants are completely tough and will adapt well to cold winter climate, yet in the event that hard ices undermine, at that point you can generally toss some wool crosswise over them to give some additional insurance.

Most can be planted or planted straightforwardly outside to guarantee that your winter vegetable nursery is completely supplied.

1. Onions and Shallots
Autumn planting onion sets are easy to grow and will virtually look after themselves over winter. Onions have a long growing season and won't be ready for harvesting until next summer, so you will need to plan carefully as they will still be in the ground when you start planting other crops in spring. Onion 'First Early' is a popular and reliable variety or for a brightly coloured red onion try Onion 'Electric'. In recent years Shallots have become more popular with the trendy gardener. Autumn planting 'Echalote Grise' is a particularly choice variety for its intense and concentrated flavour.


2. Garlic
Growing garlic couldn't be easier and there are lots of varieties to choose from for autumn planting. Like onions, they have a long growing season and won't be ready to harvest until next summer, but it is well worth the wait! 'Wight Cristo' is well suited to most culinary dishes, but if you enjoy the fuller flavour of baked garlic, then try the attractive variety 'Chesnok Red' for its delicious creamy texture. For true garlic fans (and customers with vampire problems) T&M offers a full collection that will provide you with bumper crops of garlic.


3. Spring Onions
Winter hardy varieties of Spring onion make a tasty accompaniment to winter salads. They are a fairly quick growing crop and early autumn sowings should be ready to harvest by early spring. Spring Onion 'White Lisbon' is a popular and reliable winter hardy variety.


4. Perpetual Spinach
Perpetual spinach makes an excellent 'cut and come again' crop that will produce huge yields of tasty leaves. Early autumn sowings will keep you supplied with tender young leaves throughout winter and with regular harvesting it will continue to crop well into summer! Be sure to remove the flowers to prevent it running to seed.


5. Broad Beans
Autumn sown broad beans can be harvested in spring up to a month earlier than spring sown plants. Broad Bean 'Aquadulce Claudia' is one of the best for autumn sowings, being particularly quick to establish. Once the plants are well grown you can even use the plant tips - they are delicious wilted with a little butter.


6. Peas
Enjoy an early crop of peas next spring. Autumn sowings of rounded varieties such as Pea 'Kelvedon Wonder' and Pea 'Meteor' are particularly hardy and will give you a head start next season. You will be the envy of the allotment when you start harvesting peas 3 or 4 weeks earlier than other growers!


7. Asparagus
If you have plenty of space then why not plant a permanent asparagus bed this autumn. Choose an autumn planting variety such as Asparagus 'Pacific 2000' or the colourful variety 'Pacific Purple'. Although asparagus beds take several years to establish, each asparagus crown can produce up to 25 spears per year and will continue cropping for 25 years. You will need to be patient with this crop as it will be 2 years before you can harvest them properly - but the promise of tender, home grown asparagus spears is well worth the wait.


vegetables to grow in the greenhouse in winter
Growing winter vegetables outdoors will make good use of your plot, but there are some crops that will need a little protection from the cold. These vegetables to grow over winter can be sown into cells and transplanted later into the soil borders of an unheated greenhouse, or grown under polytunnels, cloches and cold frames.


8. Winter Salads
Salads are not just for summer! Sow tasty 'cut and come again' mixes such as 'The Good Life Mix' under cover for harvesting throughout the winter months. Plant rows of Lambs Lettuce, Land Cress and Mustard alongside to add a spicy, peppery flavour to your winter salads. For tasty, crisp heads of Lettuce you can also try Lettuce 'Winter Gem'.


9. Carrots
For an exceptionally early crop of carrots in spring try growing Adelaide. This fast-maturing variety can be sown as early as November in the greenhouse and as late as July outdoors.


10. Pak Choi
This dual purpose oriental vegetable can be harvested young throughout the winter as individual salad leaves, or let the heads mature and add the succulent stems to stir fries. Pak Choi is quick to mature and packed full of healthy vitamins A and C as well as Calcium, Iron and Folic Acid. Although it is often grown as a summer crop, Pak Choi can still be sown in late summer for transplanting under cover in autumn.

Plants for Butterflies

1. Buddleja

Showy crest of brilliantly shaded blossoms makes an energetic summer show that keeps going directly through to harvest time. The dim green foliage is slim and rich, going to rich yellow in harvest time. Buddleja has a minimal upstanding propensity that is effectively obliged infringes without congestion its neighbors. These attractive butterfly brambles are constantly famous with pollinating creepy crawlies and make a helpful expansion to untamed life nurseries and bungalow nursery outskirts.

2. Sedum

Sedum is a magnet for butterflies in the nursery; and is dependable, solid and constantly beautiful! Sedums will in general structure a cluster, with dry season tolerant, plump foliage, and pink fall blossoms. Sedum plants are most at home in hot, bright outskirts, and require zero support, so they are perfect for amateurs. Their harvest time blooming period is helpful for broadening the period of enthusiasm for the nursery.

3. Hebes

Hebes offer effect and structure in the nursery for the least exertion. Frequently moderate developing and minimized in nature and furthermore extremely simple to develop advertisement amazingly flexible! The mid-year blossom spikes, go in shading from dark blue or purple through to unadulterated white. The blossoms are a magnet for honey bees and butterflies. Hebes perform splendidly in enormous pots or in out in the nursery, demonstrating bone strong to whatever the British winter tosses at it.



4. Verbena bonariensis

Firmly grouped florets structure shining lavender blossom heads that buoy on solidly upstanding, fanning stems. The dependable sprouts of Verbena bonariensis draw in billows of honey bees and butterflies. This perpetual verbena has delighted in a resurgence in ubiquity as of late, partner delightfully with grasses for a quiet planting plan, or including a dash of building style to the back of herbaceous outskirts. This rich enduring is at its best when planted in enormous swathes.





5. Echinops

Echinops is an all-around cherished perpetual with a solid design sway. Spiky globes of electric blue blossoms roost upon shimmering green stems, which make radiant cut blooms, regardless of whether new or dried. The pre-fall blossoms ascend above clusters of prickly, profoundly cut foliage which structures an appealing stand out from different perennials. Globe Thistle functions admirably in bright cabin nursery outskirts and hot rock gardens. Pollinating creepy crawlies cherish it as well, so plant a couple in your natural life zones for the nearby butterflies.



6. Echinacea

Echinacea is known for their dazzling, enormous, sprouts, with differentiating cones standing gladly above solid stems. Blossoms can arrive at 7-10cm (3-4in) in measurement. When built up, rugged plants produce groups of stems adding stature to your fringes, drawing in butterflies and advantageous creepy crawlies to your nursery, just as making emotional enduring cut blooms. what's more, pick something fun and bright to attempt!



7. Aster

Perhaps probably the simplest plant to develop in any nursery and particularly prominent in house nursery subjects, Aster is an ideal expansion for pre-fall and harvest time shading. These minimized, strong perennials will blast forward in August with a covering of delightful violet/blue daisy-like blooms that will keep on giving you a liberal show directly through until the finish of harvest time. When these plants are built up in your beds or fringes, they will return quite a long time after a year and we promise you will anticipate seeing them blossom, as will numerous honey bees, searching for a late possibility for nectar.



8. Lavender

English lavender is outstanding for bearing masses of dim purple-blue blossom spikes. The fragrant stems of Lavender are perfect for cutting or drying, and the nectar-rich blooms are especially appealing to butterflies and honey bees. Lavender makes brilliant low support or way edging where the fragrance can be acknowledged as you brush past the sweet-smelling evergreen foliage.





9. Cornflowers
Dense heads of large, flowers ranging from white through to a beautiful deep blue are freely produced on compact, bushy plants. Once a common sight in cornfields the annual cornflower stills creates a big impact in summer borders and meadows. The intensely colored blooms of Cornflowers are excellent for cutting and a magnet for bees and butterflies in the garden.




10. Fennel

Try not to get captured out with a shading less, pre-fall garden - Helenium really blossoms a lot later in the late spring, so are amazing for broadening the period of shading! This tough enduring is adored by honey bees and butterflies, and many are glad holders of RHS Awards of Garden Merit, so comes exceptionally suggested as a dependable nursery plant. Sneezeweed is tall and is incredible for filling holes infringes and including stature. It looks especially great with grasses.

Regardless of which assortments you decide for your nursery, butterflies will be thankful for the wellspring of nectar, so get planting up now!

Survival Greenhouse Plan

Some time back, I was viewing a narrative on TV about hydroponics. It highlighted a man who you may call a "prepper", or one who plans for individual and family endurance in case of fiasco or breakdown of the social framework.

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He had a lovely nursery loaded up with hydroponic units, and was effectively developing huge amounts of scrumptious and sound looking vegetables for his family. Yet, it struck me: the majority of his units used power to run the siphons and aerators and fans!

This got me to speculation; what might he do in case of a power disappointment? Regardless of whether a cataclysmic event caused control blackout for a few days or weeks or only disappointment of "the framework" to give the electrical capacity to "the network"?

Consequently was brought into the world our concept of a Survival Greenhouse Plan, one which can work either on or off "the lattice". We went through 2 years building up the idea, and building and testing our own model nursery. It works delightfully, either on or off the network, utilizing electric power or sunlight based boards. All in a minimized 11.5' X 12' structure.

Simon's Survival Greenhouse Guide is an exceptionally straightforward answer for your family's nourishment needs that should catastrophe strike! Or on the other hand regardless of whether it doesn't… We completely make the most of our own endurance nursery and use it all year.

Yet, in the back of my brain, I always remember that calamity could in the end strike, rendering most people absolutely defenseless and searching for nourishment. We presently have an amazing off-the-lattice wellspring of nourishment, directly in our own back yard.

Classic Recipes for 21 Green Vegetables

These popular classic recipes are affordable, easy, fast, healthy, simple, and tasty.  Get to know all the green vegetables, from artichokes to zucchini, as you invite them into your life by including them in your meals.  These green recipes are a great time and money-saving ideas for tired and busy people who strive to eat a more balanced diet and want to lose weight.

These recipes help to remove the obstacles to eating healthier.  It often becomes a monumental task transitioning from the cheaper, ready to eat, convenient, tasty, and fast processed foods that we have grown accustomed to eating all too often.  Consider the common complaints of vegetable eating being too expensive, too difficult to plan, prepare and cook, too time consuming, not knowing healthy alternatives, and that vegetables are bland tasteless food.  Vegetables have been ignored and ostracized for far too long.

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This book uses six keys to preparing green vegetable recipes:

Affordable recipes designed to be inexpensive to prepare with practical available ingredients that you probably already have on hand or can easily find.
Easy recipe steps that are user friendly with easy to read and follow directions so that you can get the recipe done promptly.
Fast and efficient recipes that can be planned and prepared with a weekly menu and shopping list included to save you time.
Healthy preferred quality fresh ingredients lists are provided and encouraged.
Simple limited preparation steps that use recurring ingredients and procedures so that you can learn to prepare different vegetables with similar ingredients.
Tasty food will taste fresh and good the way nature intended.


At the end of the book, there is a weekly menu and shopping list to help save you time.  Keep a copy of the weekly menu and shopping list in your car so you always have it with you whenever you stop at the grocery store.  Plan your weekly menu so that you know what you will be eating each day of the week. After you develop and complete one week, you can do additional menus for the remaining weeks of the month if you don't want to repeat the same menu.

This book is designed to be user friendly, reader-friendly, printer-friendly, as well as practical, efficient, organized, and concise.  These recipes are written to be easy on the eyes, easy to follow, and easy to prepare.  You can customize each recipe for your own preferences and write notes by each recipe for making your own substitutions.  You will achieve speed and efficiency each time you prepare the recipes.  You will get to the point where you don't even need to look at the recipe to prepare it.

Top recycling tips for the garden

Top recycling tips for the garden



Gardeners are hoarders - it’s a fact! Even the greatest gardens have a pile of odds and ends tucked beneath the potting bench, or round the back of the compost heap, ‘Just in case they come in handy...’. Creative recycling in the garden can often produce some of the most inventive ideas and could save you a small fortune in buying the latest gardening kit.

We asked our followers on Twitter and Facebook for their favourite garden recycling ideas, and we were astonished by the response. So here are some of their best recycling tips for the garden:


Old compost bags - Old compost bags are well worth hanging on to. Use them as super strong rubbish bags to transport garden waste to the tip, or split them open and peg them down to temporarily suppress weeds. You can line raised beds with them too (although you will need to make some drainage holes first) or better still, grow your own potatoes in them!

Fizzy drink bottles - Use large fizzy drinks bottles as mini cloches! Simply cut the bottoms off and place them over individual plants to protect them from the weather until they are well established. You can unscrew the lid to provide ventilation and prevent the plants from getting too hot on warmer days.

Aquarium water and pond silt - If you keep a fish tank indoors, then try watering your plants with the old water whenever you clean your aquarium. Your plants will love the nutrients that your fish have left behind! Pond silt is rich in nutrients too. Once composted it turns to black gold that makes a brilliant soil improver.

Lollipop sticks - Save your iced lolly sticks during hot summers - they make useful garden markers for labelling plants.

Toilet roll holders - Toilet roll tubes are perfect for starting peas, sweet peas, carrots and other crops that require a deep rooting area. Simply fill them with compost and sow seeds into the top of the tube. When you transplant them outdoors, simply plant the entire tube in the ground and let it decompose in the soil.

Old CD's - Old CD's make excellent bird scarers. Hang them from strings so that they glint in the sun.

Boiled water - Don’t throw away the water when you boil vegetables for dinner. Pop outside and pour it over the weeds that are appearing on the patio. Scalding hot water is guaranteed to damage even the toughest of weeds!

Old tyres - Stack old tyres on top of one another to make compost bins or fill them with compost and turn them into mini raised beds.

Used compost - Don’t ditch the compost from your patio bags - you can still use it for growing bulbs or quick growing salad crops. After that, dig it into your borders or spread it as a mulch.

Plastic punnets and takeaway containers - The clear plastic punnets that you buy strawberries and tomatoes in make perfect mini propagator lids when turned upside down. Most even have ventilation holes punched in them already! Takeaway containers make useful seed trays if drainage holes are made in the bottom. You can even use old plastic meat trays as saucers for your plant pots. They are especially good for 1/2 seed trays - exactly the right size!

Plastic Milk cartons - Cut the bottom off a large plastic milk carton at a 45º angle (ensuring you keep the piece with the handle intact). It will make really handy a soil scoop.

Egg cartons - Old cardboard egg cartons are perfectly designed for chitting seed potatoes. For more information on chitting potatoes read our ‘How to grow potatoes’ articles to learn how to grow potatoes in patio bags or in the ground.

Old carpet - Don’t throw away old carpet - there are lots of ways to use it in the garden. If you are creating a pond in your garden you can line the bottom of the hole with carpet to protect the pond liner from being cut or split by stones in the soil. You can also cover compost heaps with carpet to keep the heat in over winter. A large piece of carpet can makes a handy mulch or weed suppressant if you lay it over your plot.

Bubble wrap - Don’t throw away bubble wrap. Line your greenhouse with it in winter - it makes excellent insulation!

Money saving gardening tips

1. On the off chance that your nursery is warmed, do you truly need to warm every last bit of it? By balancing a plastic sheet over the center you can decrease the space you need to warm, getting a good deal on warming. Furthermore, protecting with air pocket wrap (with an old bit of window ornament or something comparable over the entryway) is likewise extraordinary assistance.

2. Another extraordinary thought is to put resources into our ever-popular Paper Potter is a simple method to reuse old papers and make your very own pots. At the point when seedlings are prepared to plant out, transplant them straight into the nursery in their profile degradable paper pots!.

3. Did you realize you can grow salad leaves such as Colourfully Mild Mix right through the winter? You need never purchase costly packs of general store serving of mixed greens again!

4. You can without much of a stretch transform any old plastic jug into a flawless watering can with our Bottle Top Roses. Basically, screw onto the container and use to water your seed pots or plate.

5. Presently is a decent time to gather exposed twigs for utilize later as pea or bean supports as they look more normal than plastic in the nursery and they are free! Also, on the off chance that you have a shredder, you can make your own mulch.

6. Try not to discard old egg boxes - they are extraordinary for chitting potatoes.

7. When picking what to develop, take at a gander at what is accessible in our 3 for 2 seed range, there are some incredible deals to be had.

8. On the off chance that you are developing your own vegetables, focus on the assortments which give the best worth, either in light of the fact that they are costly to purchase in the shops, such as peppers and 'gourmet' potatoes (such as Charlotte and Pink Fir Apple ), or on the grounds that they give a high yield, runner beans and Perpetual Spinach for model.

9. At long last, don't squander cash on rec centers or sports, simply get into the nursery and begin burrowing! It's incredible exercise and it costs nothing by any stretch of the imagination!

Top 10 popular potato varieties to discover

Home developed potatoes are constantly far more delicious than shop purchased spuds - and they're extraordinary amusing to develop as well! Regardless of whether you have an enormous assignment or only an overhang, you can even now grow a nice yield. In the event that you're new to developing potatoes, at that point, we have a lot of exhortation on to kick you off with our convenient 'How to develop potatoes' aides.

There are a lot of potato assortments to browse. From first earlies to late maincrops, and everything in the middle. Try not to be frightened by the immense selection of assortments. Our Potato Selector Guide will enable you to locate your ideal potato. Then again, look at our Top 10 Potato Varieties recorded underneath and browse a portion of our most famous client top picks.

1. Maris Piper - Maincrop

This outstanding assortment is a chip shop top choice! Maris Piper has been a prevalent maincrop since the 60's. This purple blossomed assortment creates great yields of tubers with a dry, floury surface. On account of their especially high dry-matter substance, these unbelievable spuds are ideal for making chips and scrumptiously cushioned meal potatoes with a mouth-watering, crunchy outside.

2. Chicken - Late Maincrop

Chicken settles on an extraordinary decision for your Christmas supper. This Irish potato has discovered its specialty as a top quality late maincrop with a marvelous flavor. The red cleaned tubers have light yellow, floury tissue that won't self-destruct during cooking. This adaptable potato makes a crunchy roastie, feathery pound or a rich prepared potato. Flavorful, anyway you cook it.!

3. Arran Pilot - First Early

A solid old most loved that remaining parts as well known as ever! This customary, first early assortment produces white tubers with firm, waxy tissue. Arran Pilot is famous for its delectably natural flavor - cook them straight starting from the earliest stage appreciate them getting it done. Eat them hot or cold as another potato or an astounding serving of mixed greens assortment.

4. Cara - Maincrop

Potato 'Cara' demonstrates very solid on practically any dirt. This flexible maincrop adapts well to dry spell and shows great protection from eelworm and scourge. No big surprise it's such a well-known decision with apportioning producers. The oval tubers are especially uniform, with appealing red eyes and feathery tissue that makes incredible coat potatoes or chips.

5. Pink Fir Apple - Late Maincrop

Pink Fir Apple is a legacy assortment going back to 1850, which is basically unmatchable by present-day assortments! The knobbly, pink cleaned tubers have genuine character and make an alluring expansion to your plate. Inside, the waxy substance is rich yellow with a particular 'nutty flavor' that truly separates it. Bubble or steam them entire and appreciate close by those pre-fall servings of mixed greens.

6. Sarpo Mira - Late Maincrop

A late maincrop that will store for a considerable length of time! Potato 'Sarpo Mira' has everything - mind-blowing curse obstruction close by great slug opposition, and it even develops well on practically any dirt. This dependable assortment delivers substantial yields of red-cleaned tubers with a floury surface, making this a decent 'all rounder' in the kitchen. For the best quality yields, leave the tubers in the ground for an additional a month in the wake of reducing the foliage. This will enable the skins to 'set' earlier top lifting them.

7. A plate of mixed greens blue - Maincrop

Try not to be tricked by the name - this irregular shaded potato is best utilized in the kitchen for heating, cooking, crushing, bubbling or making curiosity blue chips. Potato 'Plate of mixed greens Blue' is an incredible assortment creating great yields of violert5-cleaned tubers with a floury surface that holds its shading during cooking. An incredible decision for adding some shading to your supper plate!

8. Maris Peer - Second Early

A prominent assortment with restaurateurs for its phenomenal flavor and smooth yellow tissue, that won't break down with cooking. Maris Peer delivers great yields of little, new or serving of mixed greens potatoes that can be delighted in either hot or cold. This assortment is especially eminent for its tenderly scented, purple blossoms that make an alluring component on the portion or vegetable plot.

9. Setanta - Maincrop

This flavorsome potato was casted a ballot top of our red-cleaned assortments in our own trials. Potato 'Setanta' is a top decision for making flavorfully cushioned roasties with an exquisite mash outwardly. The rich tissue makes magnificent prepared spuds and squash! It has a notoriety for delivering goliath yields, like 'Chicken', and shows great dry spell resilience which makes it a valuable designation assortment.

10. Abbot - First Early

A most loved with our clients and definitely justified even despite an attempt! This first early assortment is an overwhelming cropper creating significant returns of little, oval tubers whenever lifted early - ideal for servings of mixed greens or delighted in as another potato. In the event that Potato 'Abbot' is left in the ground the tubers will form into bigger, summer bread cooks or can be made into scrumptious chips.