What will you grow overwinter?

[Cue the Toms]

Mmmm white serpent, please excuse my sheltered life??? BTW, I would never argue with someone that I've never met. You should know that

[veggiechicken]

Here is your lesson for today:
White Serpent Squash http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1034439
Trombone Squash http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1038031
There will be a test.............

[Tripmeup]

Chris

When you say, nip the top off, I presume you mean that you will cut the stem at a certain point and repot that and discard the "parent" plant and keep repeating until you reach Spring ?
What size do you intend cutting off to restart on each new plant ?
Might give it a go too....

It's literally just that, as far as I'm aware. I'm going to take a sideshoot I've already chosen - it's about a foot high. Remove that from the parent plant, plant it in a deep pot (to establish a good root system - not sure if that will matter or not), then bring it inside to an unheated (well, rad is set to 1 mark above the frost setting.. which I think is 10ºC?) spare room - so that's unheated compare to the rest .

Erm, yes so when that grows too leggy (it's south facing btw), I'll nip the top off and pot that up, and well just repeat that process until Spring comes around then start to harden it off - I'll compare it to my jan sown tomatoes.

[maytreefrannie]

Not sure about broadies; didn't do many last year. Doubley dubious as we couldn't figure out how to bollywoodise them.

I'd love to know what you mean by "bollywoodise them." Curiouser and curiouser...

[horticultural_hobbit]

To bollywoodise-create an indian dish using veggies

Anything that gets grown on t'plot has to pass through Ma's Indian kitchen. Wasn't something that Grandad grew or then grandma had to cook; so Ma has no idea what to do with them. Suppose we could have used them like peas; however, we didn't have the quantity to do that.

[VirginVegGrower]

Now I'm wondering what to try and grow in my polytunnel over winter. My toms, cukes, chillies, and aubs are still going strong at the moment, but once they're finished I was going to try and have some seedlings ready to go in the poly in October. I wondered about some peas, spring onions, maybe some baby carrots and assorted winter lettuces.

I am sowing peas and broad beans into my poly, I will also put some broadies out onto the allotment and cover against frosts. Garlic and O/W onions, plus leeks will be grown on the allotment (leeks already planted). Brassicas for O/W already in allotment too. Winter lettuce I intend to sow under cover of the polytunnel, along with alliums as a compare and contrast against the plot ones. I have celeriac in the poly already and they are going great guns (and yes I know they could have gone on the plot, but I'm trying for bigger spheres - another experiment).

[Percy T]

well last year I grew some winter lettice (winter density) I had fantastic results. Good cos style lettice. so will be doing those again, going to try to put in some spring onions I know its late but just for small onions. and of course my broad beans which I love and has taken 4 years to get hubby to stop complaining about them.