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Winter Vegetables to Grow: What We Are Growing

Daniel Dohrman · March 11, 2023 ·

We are now in April 2024 and this year is a bit different for many reasons. We still haven’t had any rain since October 2023, the weather is still warm, averaging at 30 degrees Celsius with overnight lows of only getting to around 15 degrees.

We have also had a massive change to our garden and its location within our backyard. Due to changing its location, not having any seedlings ready to go, we have chosen to direct sow all of our vegetables. We also have chosen to not grow potatoes this year, as our boat has not sold, which is where we are going to plant them.

Cauliflowers are loving this warm Autumn weather
Cauliflowers are loving this warm Autumn weather

If you would like to see what we grew last winter, click here.

Here is the list of plant we are growing in 2024

Beetroot- Detroit

We have 60 directly sown in the garden and about another 20 will be going in the aquaponics. The plan is to have a succession sowing of beetroot in spring.

Broccoli DiCicco and Waltham

We have 40 broccoli directly sown into the garden along with another 8 in the aquaponics.

Pak Choi We have 8 planted in the aquaponics these have only taken 3 weeks to grow. The plan is to have a continual supply of Pak Choi. At the rate they are growing we should be able to grow around 30-40 plants over winter.

Cauliflowers – Snowball

We have 32 directly sown and another 8 in the aquaponics.

How to Grow Carrots in Western AustraliaCarrots All Seasons

We have planted a 2 metre long row of carrots and plan to plant the rest of the row out once the beetroot have finished which will be around August.

Cabbage Wombok and Savoy

We are growing 12 Wombok (Chinese Cabbage) and 16 savoy cabbages. The Wombok in the aquaponics have taken off quickly. Once harvested in about 30-45 days, they will be replaced with broccoli.

Garlic Rojo and Elephant

We will be planting 80 rojo garlic and 40 elephant garlic. We are trying something different this year and have increase our row spacing to 50cm from 30cm. Will be interesting to see the difference in bulb size.

Kale Curly Leaf

We are just growing one plant, this has been over summered and is doing well.

Leeks – Musselburgh

We will plant 25 leeks. We would also like to try grow a few in the aquaponics.

Rainbow Chard

We will be growing 3 plants this year. One in the aquaponics and the rest in the garden. They will be planted in amongst our flower garden.

Onions Hunter River, Californian Red, Spring Onion

We will be growing about 60 of each.

Peas Sugar Snap and Snow Peas

We have 30 pea seeds planted. I would also love to grow a few in a pot and make a tee pee with our children for fun and then they can pick these peas anytime.

In our patch we also have range of other edible things like sweet potatoes and their leaves, herbs, green onions, chives, jerusalem artichokes. We also have preserved tomatoes from the summer, dried garlic and onion.

Our wombok directly sown, thinned out to one seedling
Our wombok directly sown, thinned out to one seedling

What we Grew in Winter 2023

Summer is ending and its early autumn, some of the summer crops have finished, some are nearing their end and its time to start thinking what winter vegetable to grow. We have had a very mild summer this year, so we have and still having some amazing produce come in from the garden, but to keep the food coming in we need to start sowing our winter vegetable seeds.

Autumn is here and its time to start planting your seeds for your winter vegetables.
Autumn is here and its time to start planting your seeds for your winter vegetables.

Before we start sowing seeds, we like to go through a thought process of what we would like to grow. We first write down a list of vegetables we enjoy the most, then we look at what went well last year and what didn’t, we also like to look at what we grew a lot of last year, but only require a small amount of. This helps us define our list, quantities of what we grow and then we look at our garden beds and map out our plans to make sure we are not crowding or having empty spaces. We also like to look for one or two new plants to try.

If you click on the below heading it will take you to how grow that vegetable, how to care for it and common problems we have had with growing them.

Here is a List of what Winter Vegetable we are Growing

Beetroot Cyldindra, Orono and Golden Detroit

We are trying golden Detroit for the first time; we have been told they have a different flavour. We have grown the other varieties before.

Black Spanish Radish

We grew the black Spanish radish for first time last year. We roasted, made it into a soup and every time we enjoyed it.

Broccoli Baby Bunting, Purple Sprouting, Romanesco, Waltman and Marathon.

Broccoli is probably the most eaten vegetable in our house. It’s liked by everyone, its easy to cook, can be used in so many ways and it’s also easy to grow whether its sprouting broccoli or heading broccoli.

Broccoli, like this romanesco broccoli is something we really enjoy and love about winter vegetables
Broccoli, like this romanesco broccoli is something we really enjoy and love about winter vegetables

Broad Beans Aquadulce

We have been growing this variety for a few years with great result. Our son loves this dried as a snack.

Pak Choi

This grows well in the aquaponics, and we enjoy it in Asian dishes.

Cauliflowers First Early and Snowball

We have grown these varieties before with great success.

Carrots All Seasons

This variety seems to be a great all-round producer.

Cabbage Chinese Wombok, Savoy Purple Verona

We haven’t grown the Chinese Wombok before but thought we would give it a go. The savoy cabbage we have been growing for a few years now with good results.

Celeriac Giant Prague

We have had great success with this variety it before. Remember these take up garden space for between 6-7 months.

Garlic Rojo

This is a great variety of garlic which has a great flavour and stores for a long period.

Kale Black Toscana

This has been kept from last winter. Generally, they don’t survive our summers. We don’t eat a lot of kale so one plant will be plenty for us.

Our kale plant has survived summer, sow we won't need to sow seed for this!
Our kale plant has survived summer, sow we won’t need to sow seed for this!

Kohlrabi Purple Vienna

Since we grew kohlrabi for the first time a couple of years ago, its something we grow every year and kohlrabi is a welcomed site when we harvest them.

Leeks Musselbrugh

This is a new variety for us, we have grown leeks before with different results, but nothing that has stood out to us. So, we are trying a new variety this year.

Rainbow Chard

This has been kept from last winter and has survived our summer, as it has been a mild one.

Onions Hunter River Brown Onions and Gladian White

We have grown these varieties before and had great success.

Keeping notes of what you grow and how it does can help you choose what to grow
Keeping notes of what you grow and how it does can help you choose what to grow

Parsnips Hollow Crown

We are growing this variety as we have enjoyed it before and have left of left over seed from the past few years.

Peas Green Feast, Sugar Snap and Snow Peas

We are growing a few different varieties of peas and all for different purpose. The green feast peas are a shelling pea, which we will shell and freeze, the sugar snap and snow peas can be both eaten raw or served into dishes. The sugar snap and snow peas make a great snack for children.

Potatoes Dellaware, Royal Blue, Mozart and Nicola

These potatoes perform well every year so we will continue to grow them.

Radicchio Pall Rossa

We have never grown radicchio before. We will let you know our opinion on it and how to grow after we have grown it.

Spinach Viking

We have really grown much spinach before as we haven’t really used it much, however since having our daughter my wife has really been enjoying spinach.

Mangel Wurzel

We want to grow this but are struggling to find seed, cross fingers we can find some.

We also have growing around the place a lot of self-seeded or perennials, these are rocket, lettuce, parsley, coriander, rhubarb, jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and nasturtium.

There are also many other vegetable that can be grown in winter but we are not, here is that list and why.

Swedes

We just don’t enjoy them, we have tried to grow them and use them for several years, but just don’t enjoy them

Turnips

We have grown them for several years and just don’t like their flavour.

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