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How to Tend Your Winter Vegetable Garden
Many plants lie dormant throughout winter but this doesn’t mean that your winter vegetable garden is a no-go zone. There is much to do in a winter vegetable garden throughout this season. These tips will help you tend your garden the best way so you can continue to grow the tastiest vegetables.
Early Winter Vegetable Garden
When the weather is clear and fine hoe between crops to continue aerating and weeding these vegetables. Devote time to the examination of potatoes and onions you have lifted and stored. If any are diseased or rotting, transfer them to the compost heap. Separate sprouting potatoes and place these on dry trays for seeds.
Plan your new season’s crops by examining seed catalogues and use leaves to protect tender plants like cauliflower.
Begin to ‘force’ rhubarb outdoors by placing large light-proof plastic garbage cans over the rhubarb crowns. If possible insulate with straw, or fresh horse manure which is warm. This will speed up the forcing process.
Mid Winter Vegetable Garden
Continue to tidy and transfer waste to your vegetable compost heap. On dry days, hoe between your crops. Sow peas and broad beans in warm positions that are not exposed to the wind and elements. Sow other early vegetables indoors or under glass cover. Begin sowing potatoes in a shed that will diminish the effect of any frosts and plant rhubarb in beds that are well-manured
Late Winter Vegetable Garden
Continue hoeing whenever the weather permits. Clear any old beds in preparation for the next new season. Cut pea and bean sticks and sow early vegetables under glass or cloches (plant protectors). Plant crops of winter lettuces, silver-beet, shallots, garlic, artichokes and early potatoes towards the end of winter. Only protect plants under cloches when the weather is frosty.
Watering is less of a priority for winter crops but don’t stop altogether. Light watering and even a good soak is essential after cold, dry winds. Weeding takes less time too although keeping a regular eye on this and aerating the soil at the same time is an important task in your winter vegetable garden. Remember that although used on a smaller scale, winter vegetables like to be fed liquid fertilizer around every two weeks.
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