What can I grow in winter?

[Snadger]

I hope to be getting another allotment soon with two large greenhouses situated on it

I should have them repaired enough to start growing stuff by October hopefully

I will probably heat one and leave the other cold

Any idea what I can grow over the winter both foodcrops and flowers?

Some thing a bit different would be nice!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi Snadger - you lucky thing, it sounds ideal! I havent a clue but just thought I'd reply.Looking forward to reading everyones replies. dexterdog

[Earthbabe]

You lucky thing Snadger. There's some stuff in the mag about what they are up to at Audley End and the book is really good. Unfortunately I don't have a greenhouse yet so can't be much more help. Would be interested to know for that hopefully not too distant future when I too can grow under glass.

[dexterdoglancashire]

agree with you earthbabe - lots of useful advice on things to do this month in this months mag - as always! dexterdog

[Snadger]

agree with you earthbabe - lots of useful advice on things to do this month in this months mag - as always! dexterdog

Got the mag but hav'nt got round to reading all, yet! First time I've bought the mag and it seems to be the best of the bunch

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi Snadger - it's my bible - that and the Vine! dexterdog

[Snadger]

Hi Snadger - it's my bible - that and the Vine! dexterdog

Strewth dexterdog, you on comission or something?

[dexterdoglancashire]

Nope - honestly! It's just that for a newling like myself, I need simple, easy to understand information - and I get that from the mag and the Vine, of course! dexterdog

[Lesley Jay]

Snadger it's a damned good magazine and this must be one of the best, informative and funny forums around.

[JayJay]

Must reply to all of the above!!!

this is definitely the best of the lot - the others seem so bitchy to each other with this one everyone is so friendly esapecially to daft old f***ts such as I.

Mant thanx to all for good advice and entertaining reading - must go as am at work.

[Shortie]

Have to admit I've never looked back since I joined here. There's always symapthy when you need it and my questions are never seen as daft. And I do ask some daft questions (thank god the police didn't read on of them!!)

[nick the grief]

........and my questions are never seen as daft. And I do ask some daft questions (thank god the police didn't read on of them!!)

They are shortie, but we're too gentlemanly to point it out

[Shortie]

Thanks Nick... I was hoping it was becuase they weren't daft questions! lol

[Birdie Wife]

Anyway, back to the original thread shall we?!

I don't have a greenhouse, and I'm green with jealousy that you've got two, but enough of that, if I did have a greenhouse, especially a heated one, I'd be concentrating on the sorts of things that are green and leafy and expensive in the shops over the winter. You might not get enough sun in Newcastle over the winter to ripen fruits even with the benefit of heat and you'd have to hand-pollinate anyway (I'm guessing here, never having tried it, so feel free to put me right, anyone who knows better!), so I'd go for buckets of tatties and leafy veg like perpetual beet, dwarf french beans and salad crops in the heated one and more hardy things like broad beans, endives and carrots in the unheated one. Imagine sitting down at Christmas dinner to a roast dinner with baby veg from the garden! Luxury!

[Snadger]

Snadger it's a damned good magazine and this must be one of the best, informative and funny forums around.

It has 'first impression' appeal and to make it saleable I would imagine that is what is necessary.

After having had time to read part of it, I must concur "It's a dammed good magazine" with an excellent forum de-ja vou?