Our winters in Northwest Washington are usually pretty mild. There is the possibility of snow, however it never lasts for more than a few days and mostly we pull out the umbrellas. A gardening friend of mine plants a select few winter crops in the late summer for harvesting in the winter and mostly the early spring. She eats garden fresh broccoli and cabbage in January each year. Consequently, I am determined this to try it out as well. I transplanted a few weeks ago 2 broccoli plants and about 3 cabbage plants, as well as my several celery plants are already in the ground for overwintering.
I cover the seedlings with a plastic bottle on cooler days and remove them when these strange October days seemingly hang on to summer.
This is was certainly a cool morning. The fog is still hanging in the background.
The celery plant didn’t seem to do as much as I thought it would this year. Hopefully, I can keep it through the winter and see what spring brings.
Pretty soon the plants will be too large for their plastic bottles and I plant on covering them with Reemay cloth support with a wood or plastic frame. This is to protect the plants from frost and extreme cold. If the temperatures stay below freezing for many days in a row, I may have to consider plastic as well. However, if it snows, I just make a little igloo for my plants. I will have to employ my daughter in that fun as well.
