Cabbage in Winter

[Guest guest]

Hello All - I am new to the group.  Where I live, the only fresh vegetables

that I can eat in the long winter are parsnips, cabbage, cucumbers and carrots. 

So, being a vegetarian is a challenge and I welcome help and ideas.

 

Thanks,

plspom

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I buy the bags of frozen vegetables and supplement the locally grown vegetables

with that. A diced potato in with steamed frozen vegetables is really good, or

rice with stir fried frozen vegetables is another option. Spinach is a cold

weather crop and I can get that locally during the winter also. Turnip greens

are really good cooked with onion and garlic. Turnips are a cold weather crop

also.

 

Michelle

, Pamela Spratlen <plspom wrote:

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> Hello All - I am new to the group.  Where I live, the only fresh vegetables

that I can eat in the long winter are parsnips, cabbage, cucumbers and carrots. 

So, being a vegetarian is a challenge and I welcome help and ideas.

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> Thanks,

> plspom

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, Michelle - I do use frozen veggies, but sometimes stores here turn off

the freezer to save energy and then turn it on again, so there's a quality

control problem.  I will try the rice.  No turnips where I am and spinach only

frozen.

 

plspom

[Guest guest]

Do you mean you are growing these vegetables? Or your local stores only carry

these vegetables?

 

I wonder if you can set up a sheltered growing area (like a cold frame) if you

want to grow vegetables.

Sandy

 

 

 

 

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Pamela Spratlen <plspom

 

Sat, March 13, 2010 11:35:02 AM

[veg_grp] Cabbage in Winter

 

 

Hello All - I am new to the group. Where I live, the only fresh vegetables that

I can eat in the long winter are parsnips, cabbage, cucumbers and carrots. So,

being a vegetarian is a challenge and I welcome help and ideas.

 

Thanks,

plspom

 

 

[Guest guest]

If you search on localharvest website you may find a grower near you that has

different produce for sale even in winter. The CSA that I work at has 4 hoop

houses so they can offer turnips (and greens), spinach, carrots, onions, garlic,

beets, ginger and some other cold hardy greens.

 

Michelle