6a winter garden

**Lady_V** · 10-04-2008, 02:08 PM

I am going to plant garlic this week (thanks Durgan!) and I was trying to find if there is anything else I can plant here now. I never planted over the fall/winter because I thought it was impossible.

I live in zone 6a (whatever that means) and would like any help I can get planning a winter garden out.

My specs -- pathetic little 3x5 patch of dirt that I haven't grown anything but weeds in this year

Every spring I would shovel out and replace over 200 lbs of soil because I live on a corner and the plows would pile the snow/sand/salt right where my poor garden was.

I have a lot of containers to plant in as well.

Thanks in advance.

**Ceashels** · 10-04-2008, 05:37 PM

Mmmm, garlic, thats a great idea!

Can I plant some garlic that I buy at the grocery store or do I need a special kind?

**Lady_V** · 10-04-2008, 06:34 PM

I am hoping the store kind works

that's what I bought... Durgan has his garlic planting pic-blog. I didn't see anything about NOT using store bought...it had to come from somewhere...