WILD WAY: DECEMBER 2022

10 OUTDOOR WINTER CROPS, MOOLI RADISH, MOSS

Growing vegetables for year round crops is a highly technical endeavour requiring the right timing, quantities and conditions. Every vegetable has different needs for space and they ripen over differing lengths of time, it’s complicated which makes it easy to forget things.

Gardening is as much about forgetting as it is learning. Trying to keep a year’s worth of vegetable growing knowledge in your head is like trying to retain every sentence in a text book, it isn’t possible for most people. It certainly isn’t for me, making notes, calendars and reminders more important to me than trying to retain it all in my sieve-like bonce.

Getting into a routine however can be easy with these simple ways of reminding yourself and the result is to have at least something ready to be picked in each month of the year.

Entering winter with a good stock of food to pick may be no mean feat but it can be done. Above are celeriac ‘Prinz’, radish ‘Mooli Minowase’, carrot ‘Chantenay Red Cored 3’ and leek …