Winter crops "on the first ice" - like this

Literally the words “on the first ice” mean that:

• You have prepared the seed furrows in advance
• As soon as in November (or December) the air temperature dropped to minus 3 ° С at night, they sown in the furrows carrots, beets, black onions, parsley, cilantro, radish, peking, white cabbage, lettuce and some others culture.
• Sowed and sprinkled with warm earth (saved in advance).

And this good will be called winter crops.

Some, of course, will die, especially if the winter is mild, with thaws. But if you're lucky, the harvest will be a couple of weeks earlier (compared to spring sowing). And this will be a harvest saturated with melted snow, precious spring moisture. Without watering and seedlings.

And if not literally

It is important that the land is frozen during sowing, but the minus is small, and the first is ice, and whether there is any at all is not so important. You can plant it at the end of December, if the weather permits.

Didn't have time to make grooves? Let there be ridges, it doesn't matter. That is, you will sow directly "on the first ice" on the ground and sprinkle it with warm soil. Warm so that it was free-flowing, only this sense.

I already sowed beets and carrots on November 14

These are the varieties I chose:

Not any varieties are possible. For example, beets will definitely turn into color if there are seeds that are not intended for autumn sowing.

It is a thankless task to list suitable varieties. In previous years, I sowed those that were, and nothing, went into color - immediately dug up and ate, there were normal roots.

This year I decided to send very few seeds to walruses: a bed of 3 m and only two rows, one for beets, the other for carrots.

It took 1.5 buckets to add the earth. Beets about 3 cm, sprinkled with carrots 2 cm. And first, before frost, I fertilized the furrows with my beloved AVA-1 year old, and added a little earth on top so that fine powder would not blow out.

The weather on the day of sowing was like this, calm, the most important thing:

Winter crops are always a risk. Last year, a warm winter with little snow ruined most of my winter crops, so I don't want to look at the half-empty beds. I risk it to a minimum.

What have you sowed or are you going to sow before winter?

Do you like to sow before winter or not, and why?

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