What are you Planting / Planning now for your Autumn Winter Garden?

What are you planting now to keep the veg coming all autumn / winter long? Is it worth growing through the winter or should you let the ground rest?

I'm putting in an order soon for winter veg including potatoes for xmas, caulis (not grown these before) cabbages and kale. I'm ordering onions and garlic too. Some of this needs to go in now, others later.
I've already got leeks in (tiny tiny seedlings), a few cabbages savoy and a smooth type and have sown seeds for turnips, khol rabi, peas and french beans (hoping an indian summer might mean an autumn crop of these!)

what has everyone else got planned?

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Permalink Reply by Ally on August 18, 2010 at 12:09

Going to attempt Onions since 2 years of spring planting have yielded no results (didnt get bigger or got eaten) so going to see if overwintering does anything.
Also planting some purple raddsihes for autumn harvest as I ran out of room for them in spring

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Permalink Reply by Sue Gollop on August 19, 2010 at 7:37

Just about to sow some pak choi for the first time. I have also sown green manure (red and white clover) on my bare potato patch ready for the garlic at the end of October. Hope this doesn't mean I am going to be overrun with clover. I have never done this before. Anybody out there done this?

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Permalink Reply by Sue on August 19, 2010 at 11:23

Sue - I planted green manure for the first time last Autumn, it was a general "Winter Mix" from www.greenmanure.co.uk and I was quite pleased with the results. It was pretty simple: sow, wait for it to grow, then dig it over and leave it all to rot down. And I haven't been overun by any more growth since then, and I think it did improve the soil. I've ordered a load more which I'm planning to sow in the next month. Good luck!

Sue Gollop said:

Just about to sow some pak choi for the first time. I have also sown green manure (red and white clover) on my bare potato patch ready for the garlic at the end of October. Hope this doesn't mean I am going to be overrun with clover. I have never done this before. Anybody out there done this?

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Permalink Reply by Crazii_C on August 19, 2010 at 21:08

this year ive decided to try winter veg ( mainly because i was so bord last winter with no veg to be checking on). ive got PSB, Kale and swiss chard in the ground now. ive also got little spring cabbages growing in pots ready to plant out at the end of the month. and ive just sown some winter gems, corn salad and winter land cress. They're all an experiment so i cant wait to see what results i get from them.