A new match made - and some winter gardening tips!
A couple weeks ago our previous Grower of the week Amanda Häll applied her interest in joining the community garden at HSB Living Lab and less than two weeks later she is already an active part of the community garden team! Congratulations Amanda!
We are also happy that over the next few days another couple of new Chalmers students joined the garden!
We met Amanda at a winter planting workshop event last wednesday at the living lab. "It feels great to finally have found a place were I can get my hands dirty" , Amanda says - as she washes her hands after planting.
On the picture above is Kalep and Amanda watering the newly seeded beds of salat, radish and other cold tolerant crops.
In a greenhouse like this we can also enlengthen the season for many crops with around a month in both autumn and spring without any added heath and thus getting more harvest.
If you also want to join the community garden read more about it and apply here on this page !
Autumn planting and winter harvest
Did you know that many radishes are be ready to harvested in as little as 18-25 days after seeding. Although in autumn the days grow longer and the days to maturity usually gets longer. Salat and spinach are also fast growing crops (around 45 days to maturity) and these crops can also tolerate a lot of cold weather. Especially certain types of salat like "lambs lettuce" (also know as "Mache lettuce"), can tolerate hard frost and you can sow it until late fall and even under the snow. My own experience of this crop is that it also self seeds very easily meaning that if you grow it once and let it stand a season it probably sows many new plants for next season by its own - and essentially becomes an edible weed in your garden. I had it come up 2-3 seasons after once planting it the first time in my garden.
More about winter gardening and prolonging your growing season coming up in future blogs here at Grow Academy! Stay tuned!
Best regards,
Jonathan and the Grow Gbg team