HOW TO GROW VEGETABLES IN WINTER

Home » Home and Family » Gardening Join Sign in EzineArticles - Expert Authors Sharing Their Best Original Articles Custom Search Search Sumon Khan Basic Author | 3 Articles Joined: January 20, 2014 Bangladesh Winter Gardening - How to Grow Vegetables in Winter By Sumon Khan | Submitted On February 14, 2017 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Expert Author Sumon Khan Most people believe that the vegetable gardening season ends in September and starts all over in April or May. While this may certainly be the time with the most agreeable temperatures - where you will spend more time outside - it isn't true that winter is a "dead season". Besides preparing your soil for the coming spring (what we described in this article) you can, in fact, practice winter gardening and continue to grow vegetables. In this article, I will write mainly about two points: To use season extenders for extending the "warmer" season; and which crops you can grow now (in winter) to generate yields in spring. How can I continue to grow plants even though it gets cold? You can use so-called "season extenders" for winter gardening to retain some level of warmness for your plants and to protect them from wind and snow damage. This can be: With this later system, you're flexible when it comes to size. You can create small row covers just large enough to cover your plants; or you can create a kind of greenhouses, that you're able to enter and work inside. The benefits of these systems are, of course, that you use the greenhouse effect to heat up the air under the respective cover. As it will get cold at night nevertheless, best grow cold-resistant plants. How to grow vegetables in winter? There are winter gardening vegetables that can be planted even in late fall or in the winter months (also when the ground is frozen). In fact, some plants (so-called cold season plants) are meant to be planted rather and will not grow as well if planted late in the year. The benefit of planting early is that a.) You get healthy, resistant plants and b.) You get your vegetable yields much more early (in spring instead of in summer). Before planting any seeds, you should always clear your beds of all dead plant material (also autumn foliage), crack the ground open, add compost and till it in. You can use organic fertilizers if your soil has been grown heavily during the preceding year. Typical cold-hardy plants are the following: You should not grow tubers and roots this early during the year, as they will easily rot from wetness. If, however, you combine the two tips I gave you in this article (cold covers & cold season plants), you can even grow potatoes before their time is due and transplant them into your "normal" beds once the weather gets warm again. I hope this post motivates you to try winter gardening yourself. I recommend taking a bottle of warm tea along if you're feeling cold icon wink winter gardening - How to grow vegetables in winter? If you want to be good gardener then you've to well-informed on different gardening tools idea. Happy gardening. Thank You Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Sumon_Khan/1805561 0 Comments | Leave a Comment Did you find this article helpful? Happy Face0 Sad Face0 Viewed 1 time Word count: 475 Article Tools EzinePublisher Report this article Cite this article Stay Informed Subscribe to New Article Alerts: Home and Family: Gardening Sumon Khan Email Address Subscribe We will never sell or rent your email address. Gardening Article Feed Gardening Article Feed Find More Articles Search Similar Articles Vegetable Gardening Tips - Make Gardening Easier With Helpful Advice To Save Money And Time Gardening Tips - Basic Garden Care To Ensure Healthy Roses Gardening - 5 Fundamental Gardening Tips Every Gardener Must Know Container Gardening Tips For Gardening Dummies Gardening Tips - Trees Gardening Online Organic Gardening Tips When Should I Plant Tomatoes? Consider These 4 Questions and Tomato Gardening Tips Winter Garden Gardening Tips for Beginners: Ten Steps to Success Gardens, Garden Tips 10 Recent Articles Things to Consider For Buying Plant Seeds Why You Should Plant a California Native Garden Planning Your Garden Part 1 6 Easy Tips for a Beautiful Lawn How to Manage Parrot Feather - Some Options How to Control Dollarweed (Pennywort) in Your Lawn Water Fountains - Defining Your Home Decor Plant Vegetables in April For a Southern California Summer Harvest Top 10 Plants to Make Your Garden Smell Like Heaven New to Gardening? Read These 6 Tips to Grow Beautiful Plants EzineArticles.com About Us FAQ Contact Us Member Benefits Privacy Policy Shop Site Map Blog Training Video Library Advertising Affiliates Cartoons Authors Submit Articles Members Login Premium Membership Expert Authors Endorsements Editorial Guidelines Terms of Service Publishers Terms Of Service Ezines / Email Alerts Manage Subscriptions EzineArticles RSS © 2017 EzineArticles All Rights Reserved Worldwide