Why Winter is the BEST Time to Grow Vegetables

Those that your calling lady beetles are Japanese beetles. They are destructive & won't go away when it's cold. They go into the house or anywhere they can hibernate. Trees, plant's, etc.
You can grow/harvest/keep overnight, just mulch. When it gets cold. The carrots get sweeter.

Winters here in Sweden can have temperatures as low as –52,6 degrees Celsius, so spring (mar-may) and our summer (jun-aug) makes for a very short but very intense growing season...

He's waring a t-shirt and here (Ankara, Turkey) it was snowing on April 23rd (middle of spring!) last year. No winter tomatoes or peppers here 😂

Quick question how do you combat catapillars every spring/ summer my vegies always cop it and they over run the vegies ive used pestacides before but would rather not use it any tips that helped you

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Was -3.5c when I got in the car last Thursday morning, the only thing putting on growth in my veg garden is the rhubarb. The broccoli heads got severely damaged. Onions and garlic are trying to break ground, but it's so slow. Apricot tree is waking up and sprouting leaf buds strangely.

Thank you for sharing this information about the lady bug beetle. Very informative!!!
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How do you stop the cabbage moths. They decimated by adian greens & Broccoli this winter.

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So annoyed winter is nearly over. This year, rats got all of my cabbage, kale, brussel sprouts. Got heaps of tomatoes and more corriander than I could imagine. Now harvesting seeds.

Queensland isn't cold ... Tassie is cold ... cold temperate zone. Be real!

Plant the garlic and use the tops like chives. They are delicious.

Whats the cost of those 2 for 1 Birdie beds ?

Back when I lived in Alice Springs, Autumn and Winter were the only seasons you could get anything to grow! Well, as long as you covered the plants overnight so they didn't get killed by the harsh frost

Mark, is this tee-shirt still available? I haven’t seen it in your shop for quite awhile.

I've got daikon in the fridge still totally usable after 11 months since harvest... I'm growing more of it for sure! Sliced very thin it works great pan fried and then put in ramen. You can also dice it for soups and cut it into sticks for a quick pickle. Not to mention, traditional roast. You can also use it for turnip cake, kind of a tofu-like food, which is a great recipe everyone should try if they've never had it.

There's only one thing I'm going to say about this topic, and it's DLI.

Whether you can or can't grow anything in particular is going to be based on where you live, what you're trying to grow and what are the light requirements for that particular crop. Australia doesn't compare to the US and when you look at a world map you should understand why. All of the USA is above the Tropic of Cancer. Australia kind of splits the Tropic of Capricorn.

If you get into the northern US there just isn't the DLI to grow most crops in the winter no matter what you do to protect them and you'd have to add artificial light to supplement the crops along with using proper cold mitigation. When you get down to the southern part of the US, cold mitigation becomes easier, but you still lack the DLI for many crops, though you now have some that WILL winter harvest, or overwinter or even grow in the winter albeit slowly. However for a good chunk of AU you'll have enough DLI all year round to grow more crops, at least the part of AU between the Tropic and the Equator. So it's a lot more feasible there to grow in the winter especially compared to the northern US or higher latitudes where DLI is too low and the best they can do is overwinter some crops, along with having some very cold hardy plants in the ground they can harvest into the early winter. The plants have already gone dormant but they'll remain good.


What's happened in different parts of the world is large greenhouses have been constructed which allows the "farmers" to regulate a lot about the environment plants have and during winter they run more lighting, and you can then get more veg at the grocery store. In the US in particular we have growing seasons that start pretty early in the south and the later in Spring you get, the more that season shifts to the north so we have crops that can be grown for most the year. For the times when they can't grow outside then there is the large greenhouse farming structures along with high tunnels though high tunnels aren't as sophisticated as the large greenhouses, and then we import from Mexico and S. America and between all that we get harvests from all year round with some exceptions.

Thanks for the video!

I hate fruitflies with all my heart. Here in South Africa, where i am, my garden is usually attacked by melon/pumpkin flies. They destroy all my butternuts, pumpkins, melons, etc. (cucurbits in general). I haven't noticed much damage on my tomatoes and peppers.

We are coming to the end of summer here in the United States.......I am will be planting anotehr set of sugar peas.....and my first time planting Kale. I'm hoping radishes will do well now that the hot weather is mostly gone. but we shall see.

Down here in Melbourne - Ive got a chilli plant in a mini greenhouse thats still coming along nicely and potatoes have sprouted in numerous spots in the back together with garlic

Through much insects and disease I found out winter is the best time to grow tomatoes here, I'm glad you found the same thing, it improves my confidence in my understanding

Garlic ,onions and spuds will be in, in November, we have -14 gonna try broccoli

Most of us newbies folllow the packet sowing advice.
Grateful for you sharing your wisdom Mark ❤
Also love the discount thanks!!

Are your bad lady bugs the same as the Asian lady beetles that someone brought to the US? The ones we have are NOT the good little pink lady bugs that eat aphids, but orange with black spots and they come indoors by the thousands or millions over winter, and eat holes in the curtains, and STINK like skunks, and they do bite. I have read where they "don't bite" but they do bite. They are bad for anyone with respiratory troubles like asthma or COPD or allergies. You have to really spray around your windows and outside of your house to keep them away.

The only things I can grow in winter is icicles! 😂

We are in the middle of the hottest 2 months of summer here in the Costa Calida Spain.

Nothing except citrus survives 45+ in the shade for 6-8 weeks, not even weeds - unless you are a Spanish farmer and cover the entire countryside in white plastic.

I am tempted to have a go at some veggies through winter. Lowest night temperature is about 7, and daytime temps always exceed 14, typically low to mid 20s most of winter.

But really, it would be just for fun, and to probably find out what the local population of wildlife likes to eat before we get a chance to harvest it.

We leave all our olives for the birds, and they reward us by dumping on anything that is expensive with 4 wheels and supposedly shiny, or is painted white in the garden. Guess what colour the villa and garden walls are. 😂

Fruit and veg is so cheap and good quality at the non-tourist inland markets, it is almost not worth the effort or investment growing stuff... and almost nailed on disappointment. 😁

Mind you, our oranges and lemons straight off the tree just shout flavour at you. So maybe I will have a little budget consious dabble.

Carrots will grow well as long as the ground doesn’t freeze. They will keep in the ground as well

Love your App Mark, but I still enjoy watching your videos.

I live in Bundaberg, a huge tomato growing region. A farmer told me in our hottest time of year the flowers stop pollinating. Plants can look good but the flowers just sit there and don't progress.

Oh, yes. Vegetables grow wonderfully in three feet of snow.

Bizarro world Australian opinion I am guessing. In a place with real seasons, everything is dead in winter. Have you ever even seen snow?