Whilst our attention is on our favourite summer crops it is easy to forget about how important timing is when it comes to growing vegetables for winter and hungry gap harvests. In this video I am going to show you the 15 top crops to grow that need to be started in spring to ensure you’re still getting fantastic harvests from your kitchen vegetable garden long after the summer and autumn gluts.
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Importance of Timing 0:00
Crop 1 1:07
Crop 2 1:55
Crop 3 2:27
Crop 4 3:23
Crop 5 4:18
Crop 6 5:19
Crop 7 6:01
Crop 8 6:46
Crop 9 7:17
Crop 10 7:49
Crop 11 8:29
Crop 12 9:26
Crop 13, 14 and 15 10:05
Closing words 11:18
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This is fabulous, thank you. Winter crops are usually just an afterthought in so many presentations.
Great to know you can eat leaves and so on too, thank you
Some more:
Burdock. A long root best grown in something like a pile of tyres, sow at the beginning of the year. Mine are from local wild plants.
Dahlias. Old fashioned bedding types are bigger, with larger tubers. Different varieties differ in flavour. The flowers are also edible.
Winter radish. This might also go to seed, yielding radish brocolli, salad flowers and salad fruits.
Alexanders. A naturalisable biennial, reliable winter greens.
Babington leek, also naturalisable, leaves can be gathered from late winter, bulbs in August.
Salsify may resemble parsnip, it's actually artichoke family.
Perfectly timed comprehensive video…I'd been waiting for. I always miss out and endlessly checking the back of packs trying work out when to sow what for winter food. Sprouts, Kale, Cabbage, Leeks..and chard (Perfect). prefer spinach but will try chard.
Wait..in the polytunnel you pulled out some of those shooting plants..3.04 (turnips) which look getting ready to bolt….I just pulled up mine thinking they were no good as a failed attempt to grow turnips as forming flowers…are you going to eat them?
are salsify leaves edible
On east coast Scotland would normally add 2 to 3 weeks before sowing as advised on packets
People say beetroots get some earthy taste, if you leave them to long in the ground like december or january. Did somebody make experiences with it?
You lucky bastards. The only way I can harvest anything in January is by digging into meter deep snow
Bulgarian giant leak – (laughing out quietly)
graet information ; thank you
All great crops and suggestions. Pay attention to your latitude when deciding when to sow these. If you are in the USA a lot of these can be planted later then Huw states even in places like NY. Backward schedule from stated maturity days and when the last date you get 10 hours of daylight add an extra two weeks for the slower growth in the fall.
I am a new subscriber from Nova Scotia, Canada and I really enjoy your videos that are packed with valuable information that is straight forward. Learning something new every time! Thank you 🙂
I discovered that I love Kale flowers. They are sweet and mild and I like them better than broccoli. I keep picking away hoping they will continue!
What spring?
I really want to grow leeks,I have started some, but I want to do more, they are delicious.
What is your recommendations on what to plant for a place like mine that feels like summer all year long like Florida USA. I appreciate it!!
I wish I know how to do this in texas
I love that I just learned about 2 veggies that I've never heard of before.
Huh??? None of those "winter" growing foods was under 2 feet of snow as you showed them being harvested….Do we dig them out? Cover them up?? I would LOVE to have my own fresh foods in winter but ….you didn't say what we need to do about mountains of snow covering them up……☹
Wild garlic Is Good for the hungry gap 🙂
Most enjoyable agree with everything you said. As we over here are in the hungry gap but thanks to all you wonderful u tube people we learn more and more each year. Thank you so much for your time getting these to us. 24 hrs thank you thank you so much.
This was really good.
Fantastic! I’ve got to listen again and take notes!! Thanks Huw, from Nova Scotia Canada
Great advice, thanks!
Recipies for jerusalem artichoke please?
O how I wish our garden wasn’t under three feet or more of snow all winter. Still, I think we can adapt some of these principles. From the interior of Southern BC, Canada.