Onions, Shallots and Garlic ... Broad beans Aquadulcia Claudia, Spring onions sown in autumn (under cloches is best) will give you an early crop in spring. Peas under a cloche will be ready a month early next year .. Kelvedon Wonder does well over winter. Some varieties of carrot will overwinter although I've never bothered (heavy clay soil) but I know people with raised beds that do well with overwinter carrots.
Tried normal garlic, but gets wiped out by rust every year, so switched to elephant garlic
Elephant garlic does get some rust. We remove rusty leaves as early as possible and never put them in our compost. Funnily enough they will stand some amount of rust without too much of a problem. White rot was out problem on our onions for a while until we heard that garlic powder on the bed a couple of months before planting the onions makes the spores react but they have nothing more to feed on so they die. No white rot for two years!!!
Always amazes me just how full you can keep your greenhouses in winter! I have two large greenhouses that never stop producing stuff. Water dress grows all year in the soil perfectly well just as an example!
Yep and a bunch bought from a shop roots so easily in water to give new plants doesn't it. By the way,don't know about you but we have had the worst year ever for toms, inside and out all suffered terribly from blight so much so rather than just heritage varieties next year ,I'm tempted to give a blight reistant variety a go.
We were lucky with no sign of blight on tomatoes or potatoes. Even the sweet potatoes gave a decent crop, learnt by my mistake last year and grew them in pots and not in the ground. Our worst thing this year has been white fly. Clouds of them in the brassicas!
Just finished making industrial amounts of borshe for the freezer!
After serious blight last year outside I grew Mountain Magic this year in the same soil. No sign of blight. Taste ok but not as good as some heritage I have grown before.
I've found that Maskotka is a good one to grow ... very fast to mature and fruit, bush variety so no pinching out, loads of fruit, small to medium tomato size, very forgiving and reasonably blight resistant. My garden does suffer from blight and it is really annoying - I lost all my Roma tomatoes to blight this year but managed a crop from the Maskotka ... they are not ideal for rendering down to sauce though .... more a salad tomato ... bit bigger than cherry ones but not a full salad size.
