In this video, I share 6 extraordinary leafy greens that love cold weather! It’s not too late to grow a winter garden. These cold hardy vegetables thrive in the cool days and chilly nights that winter gardens and spring gardens provide. Plant these winter crops for big harvest late winter through the spring gardening season and beyond!
The cold hardy crops featured in this video can be grown all winter in milder Zone 6’s and warmer, but perform best when protected from hard frosts with agricultural fabric. See the link below to learn how to build row covers with a simple PVC hoop house. For colder zones, these crops are best sown in mid-to-late summer for harvests throughout fall into early winter or by starting seeds indoors mid-winter and transplanting them in late winter or early spring after the ground thaws and the worst of the cold has passed.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Winter Gardening Tips
1:25 Leafy Green #1
3:54 Leafy Green #2
5:15 Leafy Green #3
7:46 Leafy Green #4
10:21 Leafy Green #5
13:15 Leafy Green #6
16:50 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Winter Gardening Tips
1:25 Leafy Green #1
3:54 Leafy Green #2
5:15 Leafy Green #3
7:46 Leafy Green #4
10:21 Leafy Green #5
13:15 Leafy Green #6
16:50 Adventures With Dale
Bok choy can also be grown easily inside using hydroponics. I grew a nice bunch of it with led lights on a timer, plasic storage box & rockwool
pickled Asian mustard green, ya gotta try it, probiotic
Definitely agree with the Asian greens. Next winter going to do way more of them. The only thing that's survived all this cold weather this year in NC is the green tatsoi. My kales are holding on, but barely 🤣
Here in the Seattle area, it's not the cold that's the problem. It's the lack of light. I can plant all those (and I've tried) but they just won't grow because there's isn't enough light this time of year. ☹️
I had 27 collard plants planted in September and those that have not been eaten through the holidays are still beautiful.
hello, i have a question, do you water your banana plants or are they fine with just the rain. if you do water them, how much rain a year does it need.
When I as growing up in the 90s….. way to make some of us feel old😂😂😂
I think the north and south have done an exchange in the past decade. You can now find collards in northeast grocery stores, but I can now find broccoli rabe in my southeast grocery store. When I was a kid (ya know, before modern civilization) I never had it.
South Louisiana,,first time bok choy and red giant mustard,, both outstanding,, use mustard as lettuce substitute,, definitely growing again ✅✅✅✅
For the BEST southern style stewed greens, a mix of collards, mustards & turnip greens (kale if you want too), pressure cooked with 1 shredded carrot, 1 shredded onion, 1 shredded potato, 1 shredded stalk of celery (use old fashioned box cheese grater), and cook & crumble until crispy, a bunch of bacon and keep the fat and add the fat to the pot, add a dried chile pepper or some smoked paprika, some black pepper, and a few cloves of garlic. Pressure cook this with a few cups of water in a big instant pot for like a 45 minute high pressure cycle and when it’s done it will be so good. My MeMa used to make her greens with chopped up turnip roots mixed in too sometimes. Just make sure you use some kind of pork . It matters. We also add a tablespoon of better than bouillon ham flavor sometimes to cheat. This recipe never fails, I’m happy to share it with you because you’ve shared some advice i will be using all year this year!
You forgot about turnip greens which southerners usually eat with mustard greens to take out that bitterness, I love them both
It looks like you are still using your drip irrigation? How does that work over the winter? I would like to use it but I don't know how to change it when rotate crops and/or for over-wintering. Would I have to buy and install new lines when I rearrange my garden?
We have had slightly below freezing nights last week+ Zone 8B here in NW Arizona at 3,000' elevation. Bok Choy, Swiss Chard, Peas, Beets, Turnips and Spinach as well as about 1/2 of the 16 Broccoli plants most mid to large sized. Not covered and all but three doing OK. Those three alive but wilted. I covered all when seedlings but have not covered at all in the past month. We will be at about 20 tonight and 48 tomorrow as the high (not usual here). P.S. I agree with you on the Bok Choy – it is a star!
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This year, all of my bok choy have survived several nights in a row in the single digits in zone 6b. Some of the outer leaves died back, but the core remained strong and it bounced back within a few days. I planted 4 different varieties and all of them look better than my collards. Stunned.
Wow the plants look great
C’est bon parlait.
Who here gave a thumbs-up for "rouge d'hiver" alone
Have you already completed? Your fur lights are test on those three miracle grow products? If not, when do you think it will be complete?So I can keep my eye on it
SE TN here! Great video! Recently 10 degrees. Garden is rock hard! My Collard is toast! Peas are gone! Sure wish this video included B Roll to the planting of your winter crops, ie. When to plant etc. Thanks!
Thank you for a most helpful and knowledgeable video. Everything computes.
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New sub. I have to modify some of your instructions to my location (southern Wisconsin), but I appreciate how you stay firmly on topic & never waste our time with nonsense. Here, I am growing some of these things on a windowsill (no heat mat!) because they can bear the temp of my house in winter (62). They’ll go out end of April.
Can you explain the thick black wedding bands?
Very nice video. I lived in Ocean County for many years. I moved to West Tenn. I wanted warmer weather: Surprise It is going down to 7 degrees tonight. It was never that cold here in the last 9 years. I saved your video to refer back to. Thanks for sharing.
8" of snow in Pensacola Florida today and your pvc hoop house/ag fabric setup over my tropical plants & winter greens is getting put the test! Not that they were engineered to handle that weight, but they are doing great so far!
That’s not true m—I’ve been growing Collard Greens 2years
Do you direct sow these or transplant?
I absolutely prefer bok choy to any other leafy green!!!