Growing Cool Weather Veggies

Cool-season veggies grow best at temperatures averaging 15° cooler than those needed by warm season types.

Many have edible leaves or roots (lettuce, spinach, carrots, and radishes); others (artichokes, broccoli, cauliflower) are grown for their immature flowers. A few (peas, broad beans) produce edible seeds.

Most can endure short periods of frost.

For best results, you need to grow them to maturity in cool weather; otherwise, they can turn bitter tasting, or bolt to seed rather than producing edible parts

Cold crop vegetables:

• Beets
• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Collards
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Chard
• Kale
• Kohlrabi
• Lettuce
• Onions (bulbing)
• Onions (bunching–standard onions harvested before they form bulbs).
• Bok choy
• Peas
• Potatoes
• Radishes
• Spinach
• Cilantro