To Grow Over Winter

Hi all, any advice on what to grow over the winter ?

I have a 10x6 greenhouse, it has a anti frost heater in there and ive put some insulating stuff in too and an auto window if it gets to hot.

Ive put in some normal onions, spring onions and some silverskin ones that are suppose to be winter ones a couple of weeks ago and there growing well.

Is there much else I can grow over the winter ?

I also have my cucumber plant from the summer which ive taken all the cucumbers off.. will the plant be ok over the winter ready for next year or will it die off anyway like a yearly thing ?

So any advice on things to grow over winter, my tomatoes will have to wait till next year i think .. oh and i have put some peppers inside the greenhouse that were outside to try and keep them going as there still throwing off loads of nice peppers. :thumb:

 

Trouble is most things grow very slowly in the Winter - and those that will be happy are probably hardy anyway. We grow (without heat):

Winter Gem lettuce
Dwarft French Beans - the frost kills them, but they crop longer than the outside ones (sown in August I think), and then we sow early next year and take a crop from the greenhouse before the outdoor beans come on-stream)
Leaf Beat - again, sown in August. Tend not to get anything off them in the Winter, but they crop early in the Spring and make a change from the Leeks and Brassicas Winter Veg from the Garden.

I normal have a few Beetroot and Kohl Rabi that I throw into the greenhouse for an early Spring crop.

Important to water sparingly - the water you give won't evaporate (much) compared to Summer, so you only need to provide what the plants will drink (and they won't transpire much)

Not really answering the question you asked though ...

 

Thanks for the advice Kristen
I had cucumbers in there from summer so ive removed all the cucumbers.. do you know if the whole plant needs removing or will it stay alive and grow more cucumbers next year ?, it would be a shame to throw the plant as it has grown well

 

Nope, you won't get an cucumbers next year (they grow them for long season commercially, but they would heat the house to 20-25C / 70F I expect, which is expensive for a commercial grower in the UK let alone a hobby greenhouse - much larger surface:volume ratio, thus much greater heat loss). Not sure what the lifespan of a Cue is, but I don;' know of anyone who tries to keep them alive during the winter. They hate damp at their stems too, which may make them even harder to keep alive in the winter (although more mature plants seem to be more immune to that).

Gardeners have the saying "Cucumbers wake up each morning thinking of a new way to die", so of all the plants you might try to overwinter Cucumbers are probably the one to attempt last!

 

lol

Cool ill remove them now then, thanks for the advice