Comments on: Growing a Cool Season Garden in Zones 5-6 https://thelivingfarm.org/growing-a-cool-season-garden-zones-5-6/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=growing-a-cool-season-garden-zones-5-6 Sustainably Grown: Animals, Eggs, Vegetables Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:46:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: George Vandenberghe https://thelivingfarm.org/growing-a-cool-season-garden-zones-5-6/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=growing-a-cool-season-garden-zones-5-6/#comment-3415 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:46:37 +0000 http://thelivingfarm.org/?p=4253#comment-3415 In the DC metro area, I grow lettuce to December and broccoli to early January. Collards sometimes overwinter and brussels sprouts and spinach almost always do. Brussels sprouts are a winter crop here, January to late March, bolting to seed after that. But the bolted plants are excellent pollinator forage.

Lettuce will overwinter as seedlings not over 2″ tall here. Older plants winterkill.

I suspect a lot of knowledge of winter greens growing was lost in the early 20’th century with the advent of cheap shipping from warm winter areas.

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