Spinach for winter : When To Plant & How To Grow. Winter Spinach. Grow Fresh Spinach in winter.

Winter Spinach. Grow Fresh Spinach in winter.

Spinach for winter : When To Plant & How To Grow.

 In my garden, America spinach is slow to grow, so it's important to start this spinach in early August or even late July - this will give it time to grow large enough for a bigger winter harvest. You can expect to begin harvesting baby leaves in January. Harvest the outer leaves, leaving the leaves in the center to continue to grow out. Harvested this way, winter spinach will continue to produce fresh spinach into summer.

At one time French gardeners used to grow Spinach on hot-beds, on which young plants were pricked out about 4'' in.  apart in November, so as to be ready for gathering from December to March.
About the middle of February Spinach may be sown at intervals of two or three weeks, until the end of July.

Winter Spinach Varieties

Bloomsdale Long Standing: A small-leafed spinach that overwinters to produce well in spring.

Bloomsdale Winter: A good fall and winter spinach with dark green leaves.

Cold resistant savoy: resistant to both cold and heat, as well as slow to go to seed, a trait which provides a longer window for harvest.

Guntmadingen Winter: A rare Swiss heirloom variety, which is exceptionally winter hardy.

Haldenstein: Another Swiss variety named after a Swiss village, which has been keeping this seed line alive since before the First World War. A great fall crop; winter spinach with large leaves.

Verdil: A giant-type spinach, which is an excellent producer in winter, even under a foot of snow.


 

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Cabbage from your garden to be eaten during winter

Fresh or Frozen
Getting cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, or cauliflower to begin heading out in the fall before the ground freezes means transplanting in late summer. You can use any variety of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, or cauliflower. When it comes to cabbages, you will need to choose an early variety.

Recommended Cabbages Varieties For The Winter Garden

I have listed some below, with descriptions from the companies that offer them. If you don't choose an early variety, then you will be overwintering later varieties to get cabbage early in spring, instead of fresh in winter.
Beware, however, that some varieties overwintered in the garden will refuse to head until
the next fall... a year later. And some have simply produced small heads and then gone to seed. Early cabbage varieties were historically developed for the autumn garden to be eaten during winter.

Here are some of those varieties:

 from by Pinetree Garden Seed (superseeds.com)

Coeur de Boeuf des Vertus: “French bull-heart type cabbage that has tall, pointed green heads that are early and quite tender.”

Early Jersey Wakefield: “70 days [on all vegetables, day count refers to days from transplant to maturity]. Introduced in the 1840s, with tasty 2-lb. sweet and flavorful onical
heads. This very early variety was sold commercially by Peter Henderson in the late 1860s.”

Tete Noire: “This traditional French variety is very rare outside of Europe. Solid, deep-red
heads are of good quality and are mostly grown as an autumn variety in France.”

Iden Acre: “A very early round headed cabbage often used for pack sales and forcing. Heads
are ball shaped and can grow close to 5 pounds so size isn't sacrificed for earliness.”

WHEN TO PLANT

All brassica vegetable seed can take two weeks to germinate and can be slower to grow in fall than in spring, which can make planting for the winter garden tricky. Plant seed in late July or the first week of August. For best success, start the seed indoors. It will be really hard to muster yourself to even think about winter, let alone start planting the winter garden, in the heat of July. But when the temperatures have begun to cool in late August, it may be too late for your cabbage to make a head before the ground freezes and growth all but comes to a halt. Cabbages and so on will grow in winter in a cold frame, but growth will be very slow, and the outer leaves will suffer some damage from the cold.

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attract hummingbirds will be the side effect of your garden, a very welcome side effect

One of the benefits of creating a garden is that it will attract hummingbirds, you will to be able to see hummingbirds keep on coming back for more food.

Since hummingbirds subsist primarily on the nectar that they glean from flowering plants, along with various types of insects that they catch in their bills, the relationship between hummingbirds and the flowers on which they feed is an intimate and an ancient one.




 On seeing this lovely little creature moving on humming winglets through the air, suspended as if by magic in it, flitting from one flower to another, with motions as graceful as they are light and airy, pursuing its course over our extensive continent, and yielding new delights wherever it is seen.

Hummingbirds must have prodigious memories, for they are known to return to the same nesting and nectar-gathering sites year after year. In time, you may get to know the hummingbirds in your garden as individuals, even as families.






Indeed, whether you live in the country, the suburbs, or the city; whether your garden is in the mountains, on the desert, or by the seashore; whether you reside in Hawaii or Alaska; you can plant a wide variety of common garden plants, wildflowers, shrubs, vines, and trees whose flowers provide nectar for the hummingbirds that migrate to or are local residents of that region.



Here, I just write about hummingbirds, but, you know more there more : Woodpigeon, Robin, Song Thrush, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Magpie, House Sparrow, Goldfinch, Honey Bees, Butterflies, dragonflies, Lady Beetles (ladybug), Lacewings, and lot more I not mentioned or I not know yet.

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I missed all that, green fresh air, flower, butterflies, birds singing, the life all around

I live at country side when I was young. All time until I finish high school.
After that, my family and few neighbour families were forced to move due to development.

Since that on, development have been replacing the greenery with houses and shop lot.
Nowaday the birds and flowers are few at variety's and number, butterfly and dragonfly become rare to been see.







I missed all that, plant of many kinds all around us, fresh air, greenery, flowers, butterflies, birds singing, the life all around.

 

We have to do somethings, every little garden help, if all of us plant at least a tree, there will be a lot more greenery, more place for the birds, butterflies, dragonflies, lady bug, hoeny bees, and alot more of the nature little living creatures.





Going forward, I hope to make good use of the experience I have gained, and through this blog  I will learn from all of you, and the know-how we will learn by sharing, using the knowledge that we have acquired, to contribute and help to protect the global environment. Build a green land sites across the country. It's will all start with our garden.