Your Winter Garden

<p>Now, I know some of you Northern yahoos live in harsh winter climates, so you can't do much gardening.</p>
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<p>Or do you?</p>
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<p>Anyway, tell me about your winter garden plans.</p>
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<p>Mine are thus:</p>
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<p>*Fava beans (Windsor variety. They're about 6 inches tall, so far. I look forward to some lovely favas in a few months. I also hope they improve the soil's bulk and nitrogen level)</p>
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<p>* Peas (sugar snap, planted two days ago, from seed)</p>
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<p>*Kale (tuscan/dinosaur/lacinato. the seedlings are really suffering in the late-summer heat. they're planted helter-skelter, wherever I found space)</p>
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<p>*Broccoli (Green Comet variety seedlings, also suffering, planted a bit too early, live and learn. I'm also seeding some Waltham variety seeds in a feeble attempt at successive planting)</p>
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<p>*Cauliflower (A self-blanching variety, doing well despite the heat)</p>
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<p>*Cabbage (Copenhagen Market variety, suffering)</p>
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<p>*Various lettuces (planted amongst the brassicas, which I have since learned is not a good idea, because they aren't good companions)</p>
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<p>*Carrots (Red Cored Chantenay variety. We have rocky, clay soil, so I cordoned off a tiny plot, added sharp sand and purchased topsoil which I sifted into the plot. No. I'm not obsessed)</p>
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<p>*Radishes (Cherry Belle, planted solely for their ease and quick gratification)</p>
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<p>*Beets (Cylindria. Perhaps planting a long, cylindrical beet in pots wasn't the best idea...)</p>
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<p>My Summer-grown sugar pumpkins, costata romanesco zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes are doing well. I'm especially thrilled at the prospect of curing and storing my sugar pumpkins.</p>