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Salad leaves over winter in cold greenhouse

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  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    We have sown pak choi and kohl rabi which, whilst not huge, do produce a harvest worth eating in the winter in our polytunnel.
    We have carrots that we can harvest well into Dec.
    We still have sweet peppers and chillies producing a crop.
    The salad crops need to be sown as always at different times but we have had a harvest on Christmas day for many years.
    Our polytunnel is not heated at all.
  • agoodrumagoodrum Posts: 39
    Hi stephensouthwest.
    I like the idea of cress.  Grown it on tissue paper on the windowsill years ago.
    Do you grow it in soil or on paper? 
  • StephenSouthwestStephenSouthwest Posts: 635
    agoodrum said:
    Hi stephensouthwest.
    I like the idea of cress.  Grown it on tissue paper on the windowsill years ago.
    Do you grow it in soil or on paper? 

    I grow it in soil - just treat it as any other salad crop...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I grow cress  on kitchen roll on the windowsill.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
    philippasmith2 said:

    A lot of the "cut and come" stuff is ideal and there does seem to be more choice available these days.

    After reading this, I decided to grow some on my kitchen window sill - no green house available.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll have some leaves by Christmas!



    I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

      Martin Luther King

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You can grow watercress on a windowsill in a jamjar of water. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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