Freshly picked carrots of a variety of colours.
Vegetables

Grow your own root vegies for winter

Karen Sutherland suggests some super-nourishing root vegies for you to plant during this winter from carrots to sugar beets

Bottles tomatoes all ready to be put aside for winter.
Preserving & fermented

Storing harvests for winter

Linda Cockburn writes about different ways to preserve your summer harvests, such as tomatoes, so you can keep on enjoying the results of all your hard work in winter.

Colourful carrots
What to plant

Colourful carrots

There are so many different types of carrot to grow, many of them vibrantly coloured heirloom varieties.

Two turnips in the ground ready to harvest.
Your garden harvest

Making every part count

Making the most of root to leaf edibility is an idea that has been used for generations by frugal kitchens. Winter soups are just the start!

Coloured carrots.
Vegetables

Carrot crops

No matter where you live, PENNY WOODWARD says that carrots can be planted now.