[basjoos]

Pale, build some cold frames and in your climate you'll be able to greatly increase the variety and productivity of the veggies you can keep harvesting all winter long. Here, despite winter lows down to 10F, I'm currently harvesting broccoli, kolhrabi, radish, lettuce, arugula, collards, kale, kumatsuma, and mustard out of the cold frames. Kale, cabbage, collards, spinach, corn salad, and french sorrel from the outdoor beds. Potatoes, carrots, bunching onions, wild garlic, parsnips, radishes and sunchokes as storage root crops in the outdoor beds. The cold frames are also keeping the globe artichoke and satsuma plants undamaged by frost so they can go on to produce in the upcoming growing season.

Its still too early for me to plant peas or other seeds in the ground outdoors. Peas will go in the ground in mid Feb, although the cold hardier Fava beans will go in the ground early Feb. Peas are cold hardy to 22F and favas to 14F, although the flowers and fruit of both can't take frost, so you have to time their planting so they start blooming at about the date of your last frost.