14 Vegetables & Herbs you Can Grow in Cold Weather
In this video I’ll show you what crops you can still grow in your organic vegetable garden in winter cold weather.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:45 Cabbages
01:09 Cauliflower
01:31 Broccoli
01:50 Green Onions
02:12 Garlic
02:42 Lettuce
03:25 Swiss Chard
03:40 Kale
04:12 Radishes
04:19 Carrots
04:38 Beets
05:01 Peas
05:32 Parsley
05:38 Cilantro
In Zone 8b we grow cabbage, collards, mustards, turnips, peas, celery, radish, chives, shallots, bunching onions, broccoli, spinach, garlic, parsley, rosemary, sage, and kale.
Loved your winter crop information, I would love to grow more brassica’s but I have had huge problem with aphids attacking my kale, cabbage, and cauliflower how can I prevent aphids from coming in my garden?
I am in PEI Canada. We get down to -15-20C most winters for at least a month or 2. My Kale survives most of the winter until it is completely buried in snow, but it regrows very sweet leaves in early spring once the snow melts. I feed some to my chickens and dry some for the health benefits without dealing with the taste.
I keep trying, and hoping, but I have never, ever, had any luck growing any brassicas or even radishes. Tomatoes, potatoes, squash, beans, peas – YES!! But never a brassica! LOL Even my garlic does well! Thanks for the video, and best wishes to you!
We’ve had Temps down to 22F. Killed the baby chard, but the cabbage, mustard greens, and butter lettuce survive when covered. Holding out for the carrots. They’re not growing that fast.
My beets failed to develop and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Could you do a video on beets?
Another great video! I just left Florida, where I grew all year long. Moved to Georgia. Thought they would be similar growing since they are next door to each other
nope not at all. I actually get a winter here
Zone 8a here. In my winter garden we have broccolini, collards, swiss chard, spinach, kale, green onions, beets, carrots, and bokchoy.
My garden is full of pea volunteers, broccoli, garlic, onions, peppers (still not pulled up for overwinter but are happily producing). Ive seeded beets that didn’t germinate so going to start some indoors. Im chuckling at the okra plants that area still determined to produce! Oh and one bed has a ton of potatoes growing currently. A grandkid tossed potatoes in that bed when i pulled out tomato plants which grew crazy good tomatoes last summer. Will the potatoes growing there now ruin the bed for next years tomatoes? Im in zone 9 in the central CA valley.
Grow? Or keep alive? There’s a difference.
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Question: I live just outside Vancouver,. Our winters are pretty mild but wet. I would love to try growing these veggies now. My question is, will the seeds germinate if I direct sow?? Don’t most of these seeds need to have a certain temperature in order to germinate? I hope you can help me with this question. I absolutely love your videos
. You have taught me so much! Thank you!
I made two cold frames for my two little 4×4 raised beds. I’m loving the fact that I have peas growing still! In 7a here, and it’s protected them down to 26/27 F!! Hopefully I get at least some shoots to eat before it gets too cold. Can’t wait for spring. Next year I’ll plan for kale, cilantro, and spinach….
I didn’t plan ahead. So now I’m having to mail order all my seeds. Nothing local sales seeds after fall starts.
Hi I wanted to ask if someone is allergic to crab and lobster meat would that affect the veggie? Can they still eat the veggie?
I took special care of my one Kale plant (direct sow this Spring) because my Broccoli never grew a head last year (which was sickly/attacked by pests). It’s a healthy plant, and I know it’ll survive this harsh winter coming up. I mostly grow it for the health benefits and the hardiness of the leaves (won’t become mushy when cooked in high heat). I’m also overwintering my healthiest Purple Beauty bell pepper plant (bought the seeds from Dollar Tree to give it a try), and am hoping it’ll thrive next year. I also got Garlic cloves planted, which quite a few had sprouted greens due to abnormal warm Autumn, but it’ll be okay once I get to mulching with fallen leaves. Cilantro greens are always slow going, so I’m planning to direct sow a lot more next time.
Frost fabric vs hoop house cover? I use hoops with my frost fabric to protect my plants. However, I thought I had read somewhere that the fabric gives better protection than plastic because plastic transfers the cold temps. I’d like to try to grow lettuce for the entire winter here in 7b, which material will provide the best protection? We get very little (if any) snow and it’s usually only on the ground for a few days.
My Purple Sprouting Brocolli and Chard survived -15C last year in the UK, I had some chard for my meal tonight with roast beef & gravy, carrot and swede mash and roast potatoes, topped with a dollop of mustard with the beef.
Our winters here (Houston Tx zone 9B) can sometimes be so short or so erratic (from the 30’s to the 80’s within a day or two) that we don’t get much time to grow these winter vegetables, even the quick ones. I am hoping to have better luck this year. I have carrots, parsnips, lettuce, spinach and peas growing right now. I hope to plant turnips and radishes in another month or so but it isn’t cold enough yet.
I love cilantro but am not sure it will stay cold enough for that to grow. Next year I will try papalo, which is supposedly very similar to cilantro but is very heat tolerant. Heat, we have.
I started parsley last July and kept it inside, under grow lights, in bags. It did SO WELL. I just transitioned it fully outside yesterday.
I love perpetual chard, aka perpetual spinach. I had some growing over the summer and it did just fine; I planted out some more a week or two ago for a fresh crop. This will be a staple in my garden.
I still have a bunch of tomatoes going and they’re still producing. They’re all determinates so they won’t last through winter, sadly.
Nice video!
Thanks Brian! I appreciate telling us the temps! Blessings
I say (a little tongue-in-cheek) there are no love-it or hate-it vegetables just good cooks and bad cooks.
Lettuce, kale, carrots, radishes!
You didn’t mention the actual temperature for beets..
What are Semi-determinate tomatoes
Kale is excellent for Daisy, my pig and ducks both love it. I love it too, my husband does not so I sneak it in my broccoli cheddar soup, make pesto with it (along with parsley and arugula) and braise it with lots of garlic. The type of kale is important, I don’t grow curly kale, I don’t like that one either but perennial tree kale that seems to be a kale/collard cross, Red Russian or Lacinato kale are milder and delicious.
I am in North Alabama. U have onion and garlic growing. Can i start some brassica and lettuce seeds under the grow light and then set out or do you think it is too late?
I’m in S.Dakota. I’m not sure even a cold frame would save plants when the Polar Vortex rolls in. most Temps start with a – and then wind chills. I just draw my garden for when it warms up again. And watch Brian’s videos & dream about spring. lol
I have a container garden in my driveway where the only summer sun hits the ground. Nothing would survive our winters, on average 20+ degrees for highs, zeros and below for lows. This is planning time, and basement seed starting set up.
This is some great information and encouragement for people to grow their food year-round. I am in zone 5b-6 and have garlic growing on my windowsill and my outside the patio Garden for the first time hopefully it will grow well. As garlic is a long, long-growing plant I think that it has so many layers because it’s putting on a jacket for winter the colder it gets the more layers the bigger the garlic head.
But does they grow in cold?
I grew peas, but they were not sweet and the texture was pasty. What variety do you recommend, or do you suspect that I may have picked them too late??? I’m in So Cal.
Since we can get to -10 to -15 here in eastern Oregon. My growing is limited to garlic and over wintering my herbs. We grow green onions in the kitchen year round for quick cooking needs.
Thanks so much for this temp info on these crops! I have many of them planted and growing well in my raised beds here in Texas. Fall gardening is the best! The bugs are gone and last year my crops did so well that I planted way more this year. Can’t wait to be eating those fresh Lincoln peas! Now I know what temps to watch for to cover my cattle panels with plastic! Thanks so much! And I love Daisy!
Thanks for the cold weather tips. I’m still eating kale that made it through last winter – one of the ‘love em’ crowd – kale omelette’s several times a week :O) I’ll continue harvesting until the snow has completely covered it (last year a good three feet over the garden) wondering if it will make it through a second winter. Also of special interest for me is the carrots info, and…..well, everything. Thanks as always, take care to all, including your new Daisy addition.
Too bad we get below zero occasionally. Hard enough to keep the snow shoveled without worrying about a garden.
Would be nice to have a bug free winter garden though!
All the veggies you mentioned had to be planted back in August-October, correct?
I am in zone 8a in western central Arizona. This is the first winter that we are gardening.
We’ve planted carrots, radishes, garlic and onions. We’ll be planting peas and herbs this week. I’ll add lettuce and see if I have broccoli seeds.
Thank you!
My Swiss Chard survived last winter through a week of temps around -5F. It kept going into mid-springtime, then bolted.
Great advise and wisdom! updates on the new farm babies!
My favorite winter crops are purple sprouting broccoli and peas (zone 9).
Thank you Brian.
Here in Florida it’s still too warm to grow any fall/winter crops. It’s very frustrating.
Thanks Brian.
We live in Texas, an hour south of Dallas. Our weather is ridiculous. We had 106*F for a good month in August-September. That is not unusual. Our winters are often considered mild, but in 2021(?) we had the worst Arctic week I’ve ever seen, with low temps of 20 below zero. And a bunch of snow. Our weather made national news because our infrastructure froze, and many, many people had no electricity and NO water! So many landscaping plants were flat-out killed.
Anyway, that is not a normal winter for us. Some years the LOWS hang out around 30 degrees. So…. What to do?
I know this isn’t the channel to say this but I can’t wait to see how Bella and Daisy are getting along now.
I am not going to put up with this! You said cow!! Last time I checked that is not a vegetable!! Consider me unsubscribed!!!
The only things I can grow in the cold winter weather with absolutely no effort are weeds.
Of course, they do even better in the warm growing season meant for growing my food crops. sigh.
I enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.
Last year, I had Fordhook Swiss Chard, and Russian Scarlet Kale survive temperatures down to 7F, -13.9C. The plants were damaged, but recovered and thrived.
Thank you Brian
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As always very helpful info
I like your wife also hate cilantro
But like you love garlic so planted extra this year mmm
Very helpful that you listed different veggies/lettuce for cold weather and temps they can
Tolerate. I’m always looking that up
Thank you again for all your hard work making videos
And educating us
Here in 8a New Mexico it can get pretty cold, down to 10 degrees. I do cabbage, lettuce, spinach, beets, carrots, turnips, different radishes including daikon, the hardy herbs like thyme, cilantro, and parsley, I’itoi onions, chard, kale, garlic,
This is a very helpful video! Thanks for posting.