The vegetable garden in winter

The frost is coming, prepare your vegetable garden!

It's starting to freeze and not all plants can handle it. It would be a shame if you can't enjoy your harvest next year, wouldn't it? That is why it is important that you protect your vegetable garden from the cold. You can read the best way to do this here:

• Protect the vegetables against frost with a 20 to 30 cm thick layer of soil mixed with straw, dead leaves or peat. What is peat? Peat is frozen black peat. Of course you can order it in our webshop!
• Wrap the small vegetable plants with a light, thin plastic foil. Secure the foil with stones or tape.
• The best thing is to put down a plastic tunnel or a foil greenhouse. This way your plants are certainly protected against frost.

Planting and sowing winter vegetables

Enjoying delicious winter vegetables? Then you are really late at the end of November and the beginning of December. Do you want to know when to start sowing and planting next year? Read it here in our winter vegetable planting and sowing schedule:

• Winter spinach
  In September, winter spinach is allowed into the ground. Make sure you clearly sow winter spinach. Does it turn out to be a mild winter? Then in February you can pick all the young spinach!
• Lamb's lettuce
  Delicious field lettuce! Sow in early October and harvest in December. Would you rather sow later? No problem, but then you can harvest later. Pretty simple, right?
• Winter lettuce
  When is hibernation? Well, when there is clearly hibernation on the seed pack ;). Sow early October and probably harvest early March. But this also depends on how severe the winter is.
• Cutting lettuce
  Sow in early October and harvest (depending on the weather) at the end of November or December. Note that these are small baby leaves. But at least as tasty!
• Spinach
  Lekkere spinazie voor in de stamppot of tussen de pasta door? Yes! Wij houden van spinazie. Wil je spinazie in de winter oogsten dan moet je in september zaaien.
• Winter purslane
  This is really super food for the winter! Sow it in August or September and you can already harvest it in the winter. It couldn't be easier!
• Endive
  Growing endive is super easy and also very healthy. You can harvest within 10 weeks. From March to August you can sow endive. When you sow endive in the summer it will be faster.

Protect your harvest

To make sure your harvest stays good it is important to keep it in the right way. After harvesting root crops can be stored outdoors or in a cool cellar. Make sure they are well-dry and that there is room for ventilation otherwise they will get mouldy!

Indoor growing

Now that there is little left to grow, you can also choose to go indoors, in a greenhouse or greenhouse. But the real cold and frost also comes through the greenhouse. So make sure you protect the crops as well. How to do this the best way? Read it here:

• Use empty egg cartons to protect the crops
• Wrap the plants with foil
• The best thing is to turn on the greenhouse heater or use heat lamps. This not only ensures that your plants survive the cold but also that no fungi are formed.

Make sure you check which plants you can grow indoors. Some need real sunlight or a certain humidity.