These cold-season vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers will thrive in chilly conditions.
So pick your family’s favorites and start planting.
Broccoli
Broccoliis packed with nutrients and is tasty and easy to grow.
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Because broccoli loves cool weather, you could plant it in late summer for fall harvests.
Add color to your vegetable garden with red-leaf cabbage varieties such as ‘Ruby Ball’ or ‘Super Red’.
Calendula also dries well, making it a good pick for garden craft projects.
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Harvest carrots as soon as the roots are large enough to eat.
Chives can self-seed prolifically in the garden.
Plant a few seeds weekly, and you’ll have a constant crop forfresh salads.
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The flowers appear in virtually every shade of the rainbow and makebeautiful decorations when used on desserts.
Fall-planted pansies in cold-winter areas will often overwinter and bloom the following spring.
They’re pretty, too: The plants often bear variegated foliage andwhite flowers.
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Radishes come in a variety of flesh colors, from white to red to pink and lavender.
Because of their fast growth and small size, round-root radish varieties are suitable for growing in containers.
Like other leafy greens, plant some in a shaded spot to keep harvests going into the summer months.
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Inmild-winter areas, it’s possible for you to sow spinach in late fall for early spring harvests.
The leaves taste a bit like spinach.
Some Swiss chard varieties are more tolerant of frost than others.
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Take care not to plant this vegetable too early in spring.
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