Do you live at a place where you can do some gardening in Winter?

I do a tiny bit of gardening in the winter but it's all done inside. It gets way too cold outside for anything to grow. I do leave some onions and garlic in the ground over the winter because they continue growing the following spring and get quite large that way. I've also been growing potatoes in a large planter in my kitchen in front of a sunny window. The potatoes didn't get very large but I did get a bunch of new potatoes that were quite tasty. I started a bunch of stuff in my basement (where I have shelves with grow lights) to extend the season with stuff that doesn't like the cold. I have kale, spinach, cabbage and a few other things growing very nicely inside. I've started planting them outside and they should be finished by this Sunday when we have another nice Spring day. (They've been either too cold or too wet for the most part.) I also have some really nice lettuce plants growing inside. I'm growing about 4 or 5 different types, some of which are red... called that even though they look purple. I should be able to plant them outside within 2 or 3 weeks, if I don't eat them all first. LOL Here's a photo of some of my lettuce.

Why do I think ...funny? 'Cuz, marguicha...the weather has been so unpredictable...truly ALL over the "not normal" thermometer these last few years, that it is worse than the odds in Las Vegas! New West Coast expression..."plant and pray!" Given the optimum conditions (Zone 7)normally there is only about two months that we can't grow cold weather crops..which are most of the brassicas, kale family, and many years, just leave my root crops in the ground, pick as needed, rather than preserve them! Leeks and Garlic of course, I plant in Fall, they grow over the winter...but this year, I nearly lost them for the consecutive days of hard frost. I just have to throw caution to the wind, roll the dice, plant the crops and leave destiny to the hands of Mother Nature...I just can't count on anything anymore! I did manage to save all my Garlic and Leeks, by mulching heavily and tarping at nite...Thank Goodness! Marguicha...have you ever grown tomatillo's...I have for the last few years and am totally in love with them....Spectacular Salsa Verde, they make! I have made Salsa Verde with green tomatoes...but NOT as good as when made with tomatillo's! Hopefully, you will read this, as I apologize for lack of response in other discussions...I got caught up in that mess the other day, when I wrote responses and they all were deleted when I tried to post!

Hi marguicha, Here where I live the weather is warm,warmer and hot during summer. So, one can do gardening all through the year.That is a good tip about lettuce ! I love lettuce in salads and it is very expensive here in India. I would love to grow it on my terrace under the shade since I heard that it does not require a lot of sun..all the best and happy mylotting

I could not say if we are lucky to have only two season here in our place, rainy and dry season. But when it comes to gardening, I think there's nothing much problem in doing so. We used to have a vegetable garden and it's not a problem at all. And know what? Lettuce is one among my favorite veggies especially for salad. But we can also have flowering plants as well. Probably the thing that we consider problem is if we are good in planting or the so-called green thumb person. I do love gardening, for I am a vegetarian and I love colorful surroundings as well. But our garden is in our place in province, we can never have it here in urban for here are very congested with houses and most home owners have no space for gardening.And that makes me missed the life in the farm. May you have a good harvest in your garden. Happy mylotting.

Hi marguicha The only winter gardening I can do here during the winter is wear a really warm coat and pick the veggies off the supermarkets tables. lol It is usually 30 below zero here for weeks on end during the winter here so no way for any gardening here, it gets too covered with lots of snow. The summers here although super humid and hot they are only for a 2 or maybe 3 months not a whole lot of time for a great gardening season. Just a few here and there. I am not prepared at all for the upcoming season in terms of gardening because I no longer have a garden. I live in an apartment and unless I can do so in pots I don't have access to a garden.

I would say I live in paradise where I do not have to worry about when to plant and when to harvest. I have only two seasons, dry and wet. I plant crops year aound and harvest the same. That makes the place where I stay becomes special for me.

Hi. marguicha. I have never seen anyone here plant a garden in the Winter time. I am sure that they have, I just have not seen it for my very own eyes. It is amazing to be able to plant a garden when it is very cold. I hope that you enjoy eating your red lettuce. I am not sure if I ever saw this type of lettuce. I have seen something similar to red lettuce mixed into salad greens in a Dole salad bag. I wonder if these red lettuce are considered to be what you have planted?

No..I'm thinking that unless I had a greenhouse I wouldn't be able to grow a thing here in the winter. It would freeze solid.

Oh that's nice. I can't here. It snows in the winter and it gets very cold... I can only do some indoor plants but not vegetables or fruits. I have couple of plants that blomm flower throughtout the year which is nice.

hi, sad to say that i lived in a place where the climate is hot and and not good for gardening plants,even i wanted to,i still try to have plants inside of my house.if my place is a cold place why not,i will plant as many as i can.

I love gardening. Unfortunately, I can't garden all year round since I live in a colder climate (zone 3) in Northern Ontario. Our summers are short so I'm restricted on what I can plant and choose seeds that are short season. I have a small portable greenhouse to extent the season a bit. I love growing different lettuces and spinach. I also grow tomatoes and peppers. Last year I overwintered a pepper plant and it survived. I have asparagus growing in my garden, which is a perennial. It's the first vegetable that comes up in the Spring. I love freshly picked asparagus -- so flavourful. My yard is full of strawberries too which come up every year. That's a real treat. I really wish I could fully garden all year long though.

I came from a tropical country of Philippines but now I'm here in Israel and recently working here as caregiver. Here the vegetables are very cheap because they have the good crops technique even its winter season. So we used to buy vegetables in the supermarket but as past time I made a small garden in our backyard here and I grow this kind of red hot cherry pepper. I enjoy gardening because it make me feel good after the long hour of work as caregiver.

no i get snow here in the winter but we just bought a green house for our yard so we will be able to garden all year which will save us lots of money sence everything is going up these days. i have a bunch of stuff in the green house as well as outside of the green house so i hope to get a lot of fruit and veggies this year