Growing winter salads is a great way of extending the growing season.
Whilst the harvesting quantities may be less than during the summer months, by choosing a good selection of seeds there will be goodies to harvest just outside the back door right through until the spring.
Take a look at the Winter Salad Selection Pack from Recycleworks. Included are some tasty salad leaves, radishes, rocket, American land cress and winter greens.
Sow in a Salubrious Salad Bed or one of these Willow Salad Planters, and position just outside the kitchen door for easy harvesting during the colder days.
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Each of our classrooms has a large flower bed which has just been tidied up
What should we plant next or should we wait till next year?
Are we too late to plant winter salad or rocket
How about bulbs?
Hello there Johanna
Thank you for your question.
With all the cold and frosty weather it is probably a little bit late to sow winter salads unless you have a polytunnel.
You could plant bulbs now and they will give a lovely display of early spring colour. For our favourite varieties visit http://www.recycleworks.co.uk. It is worth bearing in mind that some varieties of bulb will not flower until later in the spring though, so if you are planning to sow early vegetables it may be best not to sow bulbs in every bed. There is something magical about bulbs though – the children plant them, forget them and then weeks or months later a beautiful display of flowers appear.
Viola and wallflower plants can also be planted now. They are available at local garden centres and will flower right through the winter months.
If you would like to sow a vegetable at this time of year broad beans can be planted now and will be ready to harvest earlier than spring sown varieties. You will need to buy an autumn sowing variety though.
I hope this helps – happy gardening!
Charlotte