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The Ultimate Winter Vegetables You Should Be Planting

Having a vegetable garden in the winter allows homeowners to grow crops for use in the early spring. Growing winter crops like kale, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts will allow you to harvest a good yield after the winter if you plan ahead. Don't worry if you didn't plan ahead of time. You can grow a wide range of tasty winter vegetables.

Vegetables You Can Grow Outdoors in Winter

Most of the winter vegetables we will look at can survive the cold winter, but if hard frost forms, you can add some fleece to protect the crops. You can also plant most winter crops outdoors. Let’s now look at the options of winter crops you can grow in your garden in Adelaide.

Garlic

Growing a wide variety of garlic planted during the autumn is easy. Since garlic is like onions, it also takes a long growing season for harvesting to take place next summer. For example, you can grow the Wight Cristo, a popular culinary treat. Alternatively, you can plant the Chesnok Red option, which has a creamy texture.

Onions and Shallots

Growing onions planted in autumn is easy because they can look after themselves in winter. As we mentioned, once you grow onions in the fall, you will harvest them next summer. So, you have to plan because the onions will still be underground when you want to plant other crops in the spring. Over the years, shallots have been a popular option while gardening in Adelaide. One preferred variety is the "Echalote Grise" because of the concentrated flavour.

Perpetual Spinach

Perpetual spinach is a great crop that offers huge yields and delicious leaves. If you plant them in autumn, you will have tender young spinach leaves sprouting in winter. If you harvest them regularly, you will still harvest more in the summer. Always remove the flowers from the crop to prevent it from running to seed.

Spring Onions

Spring onions grown during the winter season create a tasty salad accompaniment. Spring onions are easy to grow since they grow fast if planted in early autumn to be harvested in early spring. One of Adelaide's popular gardening varieties is the "White Lisbon" variety.

Broad Beans

If you pick broad beans in the fall, you can pick them in the spring or a month earlier than if you had planted them in the spring. One of the best varieties is ‘Aquadulce Claudia.’ Once your broad beans are grown, the plant tips can also be used in a meal.

Asparagus

You can plant a permanent asparagus bed if your garden has lots of space. You can select an autumn variety like the asparagus "Pacific Purple" or the "Pacific 2000." Although the asparagus bed can take years to formalise, you can harvest 25 spears per year from each crown, which will go on for 25 years. Patience is needed when growing this crop because you must allow the plant to grow for two years before harvesting.

To get more details on other types of crops, you can grow in the vegetable garden in the winter season, contact Guaranteed Garden Service today at 0407 304-977.

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