Garden Series: Greenhouse Gardening in the Winter, P7

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Mustard greens, kale, arugula, and spinach are examples of leafy green vegetables that tolerate cool greenhouse growing conditions and can be harvested a single leaf at a time rather than removing the whole head. If you add miniature Bok Choi or head lettuce to the mix and remove them as individual whole plants, this leaves a gap for kale and spinach to keep growing all winter and fill in the space left between plants.  

Sadly, really  slow growing plants like cauliflower, or broccoli or Brussels sprouts may take 4-8 months to grow from seed to a harvestable size after seeding.  And other cool crops like peas are hardy, but if you want pea pods, it will take a really long time for the plant to grow, mature, bloom and form peas. It is better to grow micro-green peas, which taste the same as pea pods in winter; micro-greens take days instead of months before harvests begin. Use space created through March harvests to start peas for pods and grow varieties like Oregon Giant up a trellis to use a third dimension when growing. ( this variety can be eaten  as micro-greens, as flat Chinese pea pods or as fully puffed up edible podded peas.)

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