Growing winter vegetables is easy and sustainable without the use of plastics, fleeces, expensive greenhouses and energy by exploiting the “talents” of perennial and biennial plants that are naturally cold tolerant! End of February greens, many harvested in the garden in this very mild weather, used in a delicious green Mac and cheese! See the list of plants added below the pictures.
The plants:
Forced inside:
Aralia cordata (udo)
Hosta
Aegopodium podogaria (ground elder / skvallerkål)
Cichorium intybus “Witloof Væres Venners” (chicory / sikori)
Allium senescens x nutans
Petroselinum crispum (parsley / persille)
Brassia oleracea (various perennial kales / flerårige kål)
Cirsium oleraceum (cabbage thistle / kåltistel)
Outside:
Allium carinatum “Pulchellum”
Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde)
Allium stipitatum shoots (Persian shallot / Persisk sjalott)
Rumex acetosa “Abundance” (sorrel /engsyre)
Taraxacum sp. (dandelion / løvetann)
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard / løkurt)
Dystaenia takesimana
Scorzonera hispanica (scorzonera / scorsonerrot)
Ranunculus ficaria var chrysocephalus (lesser celandine / vårkål)
Cardamine raphanifolia
Hemerocallis sp.
Allium cernuum (nodding onion / prærieløk)
Allium oleraceum (wild onion / villøk)
Allium sativum (garlic / hvitløk)
Allium paradoxum var normale
Allium paradoxum var paradoxum (few-flowered leek)
Armoracia rusticana ( horseradish / pepperrot)
Smyrnium olusatrum (alexanders / sorte løpstikke); not a very hardy species, but I’ve kept it alive for many years growing up against the house wall protected by a leaf and sacking mulch (I overwinter tender plants in pots here):