Growing all year round

[Bigmallly]

No. We don't really eat carbs so no spuds or bread or pasta or rice etc.

Paul

What?....................No Chips?........No Mash?............No Roasties?.............No Crisps?...........

[Scarlet]

So no sugar?... No cakes, pastry, jam. I couldn't live without homemade jam.

[bramble]

I couldnt live without potatoes.

[Guest]

Although its not sowing now. Things for over winter are microgreens, pea shoots, bean sprouts. I have never been that good but I have read several grapes that are. Tubers for over winter yakon and fartichoke.

[Tiny Allotment]

So no sugar?... No cakes, pastry, jam. I couldn't live without homemade jam.

Very little sugar so cakes pastries and jams every now and again but not regularly.

We have one day a week when we eat what we like but apart from that I try to avoid carbs.

We are not anal about it. We went out for a roast dinner at the weekend and I enjoyed the roast potatoes because they are now a treat instead of a staple.

paul

[Yasai]

Different things I think.

Thanks. It gets so confusing with all the different names.

[ESBkevin]

Modern farming methods have crops like carrots grown and left in the ground for winter and covered with straw then plastic to keep out the frost. To harvest a few fresh carrots, peel back the cover, lift what you want and put the cover back on. Fresh root veg in the winter without storage issues.

Dry cool stored fruit like apples are good. Early rhubarb forced. Mushrooms in the airing cupboard. Kale Chard and leeks have been mentioned.

[Alison]

Modern farming methods have crops like carrots grown and left in the ground for winter and covered with straw then plastic to keep out the frost. To harvest a few fresh carrots, peel back the cover, lift what you want and put the cover back on. Fresh root veg in the winter without storage issues.

I just leave my carrots in the ground all winter with only enviromesh over them (which I have from sowin to avoid carrot fly damage), don't find any further protection required for main crop roots and even when they've been under frozen snow it's only the top inch that gets damaged but may depend on your soil type, mine is a big silty and doesn't hold excessive water.