Growing over the winter

Glebee

Now with summer well and thoroughly over is there anything I can sow in the ground over the winter. This summer I had good results from onions, beet root, lettuce, radishes and cabbage. Carrots were small but ok. Looking for something to put down that does not need to much looking after.

zombiepaw

Unless they are already sown it's pretty much too late for everything aside from onions and garlic. Here is some more info and a decent deal for a Garlic and Onion pack.
Also youcould probably sow some Green Manures.
Hope these links help some.

Technophobe

as above plus Broad Beans can go in towards end of Oct/early November

evilmonkee

A couple of things which germinate arounds the 10C mark:

Peretual spinach : actually chard
Lambs lettuce / corn salad: prefers the cold !
Mother of thyme: you won't get to eat it until next year, but it does look lovely.
Comfrey : not for eating, but used in compost and as a liquid fertilizer etc. will need to be kept indoors over winter.

Zuiderzee

WINTER VEG
Garlic
Buy garlic for planting in October or early November.
I often get asked how many one should plant, I figure, average house one bulb per week so say 50 cloves.

Onions and Leeks - Autumn onion sets can be planted now for fully ripe onions in June, Radar are particularly good.
Now is also a good time to grow leeks - plant well apart so you can intercrop with faster growing winter greens Tatsoi/Pakchoi now.

Brassica's - Greens like Pakchoi and Tatsoi can be planted to give fresh greens to winter stir fries, great with loads of chilli, garlic and ginger - nice fresh flavours in winter without the food miles.

Certain turnips, swedes and radish will also grow slow and be ready early spring.
Also winter radish from realseeds.co.uk, wierd German name I can never spell

Legumes For crop rotation some legumes are also good. I like to buy from seedaholics but there are other fine seed houses in Ireland.
Broad beans like Aquadulce, Aquadulce Claudia and Imperial Green Longpod towards the end of the month.
Peas Round seeded peas can be grown from October/November sowings. An organic variety is the Douce Provence. Other varieties include Feltham First, Meteor or Pilot (probably the hardiest of all varieties).