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What are you growing this fall and winter?

Besides the cover crops I have shared, We are growing tons of greens and roots this fall and winter. I am 2/3 of the way to have my walk in cooler up and going. Ok, I have the cooler in pieces and new AC arrived yesterday. I still need to order the Coolbot.

I am hoping to put a bunch of Turnips, Rutabegas, Daikons, Watermelon Radishes and some carrots in the cooler and sell them all winter. We did this last year and were selling turnips in February and they tasted as good, if not better than the day they were picked in November. We just didn't have much room in the fridge. Space won't be an issue this year.

We also have lettuce, Kale, Collards, Swiss Chard, bok choy, napa cabbage, tatsoi, arugula, spinach and tokyo bekana growing or needing to be transplanted. 3 colors of carrots, turnips, rutabegas, Daikons, radishes, watermelon radish, cilantro and dill. We are also planting onion sets for green onions.

Our winter market schedule is every two weeks from November 1- February 14th. I am hoping for a really good winter market season.

We are also experimenting with low tunnels outside to extend the season before we have to start picking out high tunnel crops.

Busy time. Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers are coming out this weekend and next. Transplants start going in today and all weekend.

Another 3 weeks of hard work and we will ready for the winter growing season.

Jay

Comments (5)

  • 11 years ago

    Tatsoi, tokyo bekana, Hakurei turnips, komatsuna and Japanese purple mustard, claytonia, and whatever swiss chard and kale is left over from the summer. My season ends around the 2nd weekend of November and this is with high tunnels. Without HTs, the season would be over by early October.

  • 11 years ago

    First year with the hoop house. purple and rudolph sprouting broccoli, january king cabbage, supershmelz kohlrabi, carrots, asian greens, spinach, lettuce, direct seeded walla walla onions, chard, claytonia, mache. Most of it will be personal use as I'm just trying a lot out to see what works. The sprouting broccoli is supposed to overwinter and then produce early in the spring. I'll be doing the low tunnel inside the high tunnel method, We'll see.
    Outside, I'll be pulling all tomatoes this weekend and planting in overwintering spinach. I'm going to try overwinter favas as well. They did great for me this spring and I've got a hungry market for them. I've heard of others overwintering them, so I'll get them sprouted this fall, then straw and maybe row cover them. If it works, great. If not, I know they will do fine going in next spring.

  • 11 years ago

    My winters are pretty mild so I do markets every week plus wholesale. I have lots of spinach and salad greens outside and in the hoop, as well as large plantings of beets, carrots and leeks sizing up outside. Cabbage, Turnips, radish, kohlrabi, rutabaga, kale, brussels sprouts, celeriac, etc.

    I'm also continuing with some different kinds of tubers, Yacon, Oca and sunchokes which are harvested all winter.
    Also i'm excited that my overwintering cauliflower planting got larger (13 varieties in 6, 200' rows). They start in feb and finish in june.

    Hopefully it'll stay warmer than last winter.....

    -Mark

  • 11 years ago

    We have been planting carrots (orange and rainbow), collards, kale, turnips, rutabagas, beets, lettuce, arugula, broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, spinach, radishes, etc., plus sunchokes, leeks, celeriac and parsnips that were planted in the spring or are perennials.

    Plus winter squashes, onions, shallots, garlic, taters, sweet potatoes to round out our winter offerings to our CSA, a local food co-op we sell to (and should be one of the few if only farm selling food to them in the winter so should be able to get double what we are doing now) and our farm store.

    I am excited to be using the high tunnel this winter. Couldn't use it last winter as it wasn't ready to go and at this point last year the frame was about half way done. So this winter we should have triple what we have had in the past and add in the 4 100' hoop houses/ low tunnels we have been using for 18 years and we have a lot of ground under cover this fall/winter.

  • 11 years ago

    Here is one I don't get. I have tried Brussels sprouts two years in a row. They grow great, get tall. I have tried spring and fall planting, trimming and not trimming the leaves off. Never had even a hint of them forming sprouts. I have some in the hoop house now. We shall see...

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