Nearly winter garden time

I'm a BIG fan of winter veg. I love brussels and parsnips and a winter veg soup is one of my favourite meals when it's cold a miserable outside.

But I fear my winter veg growing skills are a bit poop! Actually they are very poop! I tried parsnips which never got beyond tiny shoots, swede which did nothing AT ALL and the brussel plants actually grew but the brussels themselves only grew to the size of peas. Not a success!

I will try again, not this year because i'm too busy and I should have made a start in the summer, but maybe next year. How cool would it be to have home grown veg on the Christmas dinner table? :)

There are so many great articles about winter veg.

Jamie Oliver winter veg

BBC How to grow winter and spring veg

My Tiny Plot - a great blog!

Dan Pearson - How to grow winter veg

Well worth doing a bit of research before the spring.

My garden tends to turn into a brown mulchy mess over winter, so all the sunny hours I find over the weekends during November and early December are spent clearing up the last of the summer plants. I still have flowers on my dahlia but they are starting to look a little bleak, they will need to be cut down soon.

I've also cleared and turned over the veg patch. Doing this last year made a HUGE difference to the amount of work I had to do in the spring.

When doing your winter clear out be careful of bees/wasps. Two weekends ago and was stung on the hand, by what I think was a wasp, who was warm and cosy in my glove. He clearly didn't like my great big hand shoved in his face! OUCH!

Garden Time will take a little break, but only a short one as we'll be back with our 2010 garden journals and what we're planning to grow :)

Caz
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Comments

[Eleanor]

Garden journal? sounds good.
Great links there.
E
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