We can cultivate the garden all year round, even in autumn and winter, with some precautions. The sunniest regions with a mild climate are the most fortunate during the cold season as regards the vegetable garden.
We can cultivate the vegetable garden all year round, even in autumn and winter, with some tricks. The sunniest regions with a mild climate are the most fortunate during the cold season as regards the vegetable garden.
Even in autumn and winter everyone can still decide to create a small herb garden in the house, placing jars of sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano and other useful herbs in the kitchen or near a windowsill, according to your tastes and the space available.
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Plan the vegetable garden
The ideal would be plan already from the summer what we would like to harvest during the winter and autumn months in order to plan spaces, sowings and transplants. In any case, even with the beginning of autumn we can think of reviving our garden. In autumn, for example, we can prepare ourselves to sow and grow radicchio, radishes, carrots, beets, endive, lettuce, rocket, cabbage and spinach.
Vegetables to grow in autumn and winter
They taught us that winter is a season of rest for the vegetable garden, but we can still continue to cultivate it without major problems especially if the climate of our region is not too harsh. Those who have a suitable balcony available can take advantage of the most sheltered points from the cold to continue cultivating the vegetable garden even when the climate becomes less mild. Some easy to grow cut vegetables also in pots are lettuce and spinach. In the garden, make room for beets and radishes as well.
In any case, if compared to the climate of your area it is too late for sowing, you can resort to vegetable seedlings to transplant, to be purchased in a trusted nursery, even better if organic.
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Choose perennials
Choose some perennials to be cultivated in your own garden allows you to have the gifts of nature available in a sort of continuous cycle for all months of the year. Some plants are grown as annuals and biennials, but if you want to go beyond this type of cultivation, go for perennials. Among the perennials we find rosemary, mint, lemon balm, rhubarb, artichokes and asparagus.
Plant the bulbs
Between autumn and winter here comes the time to plant the bulbs that we will see blossom in spring. Let's not forget that next to the vegetable garden it is important to create an environment full of flowers to attract bees and other pollinating insects. In this season we can plant the bulbs of tulips, irises, daffodils and hyacinths.
Protect the vegetable garden in winter
Who cultivates thevegetable garden on the balcony even in the cold season he can think of placing panels to protect the plants and moving the pots to the most sheltered and sunny points during the day. Protect the roots of the plants in your garden from the cold with mulch. Dry foliage and bark debris will help you do this. And when the frost arrives, you can use the cloths specially designed to repair the vegetable garden and potted plants.
Read also: How to protect your garden in winter
Marta Albè
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