Professional grower and author, Charles Dowding, shares his experience and knowledge about how to grow food successfully in containers in winter.
He discusses the biggest challenges (cold and light) and how to get round them, what is best to grow (choosing the right crops is critical to success), when to sow. He also shares tips on protecting, feeding and watering crops in winter.
Charles also prepared some written tips, including the all important seed sowing dates, that you can download here.
Timecodes
1:43 Why grow in winter
6:00 Challenges – light, temperature
14:40 Best crops to grow in small spaces
26:55 Kale (incl. tips on harvesting winter crops)
28.19 Sorrel
31.12 Pak Choi
32.58 Mustards
36.18 Winter purslane
39.35 Chicory
41.00 Peashoots
42.30 Green manures for containers?
45.51 Protection – benefits of fleece
48.20 Watering in winter
50.00 How to start when containers are still full of summer crops!
52.19 Spacing winter crops
53.25 Feeding winter crops
55.36 more on harvesting