Winter Gardening in Yorkshire 🌿 | A Snowy Greenhouse Tour

It's a little snowy here in Yorkshire in the UK and one of the questions I've been asked quite a lot over the last few days over on Instagram is how I grow my seedlings through winter, especially when it's as cold as it is at the minute. So I thought I would pop on and do a quick video and just explain what I do. First off, the garden is a bit of a building site. So we moved about six or seven months ago and we managed to get the greenhouse up before the cold weather hit but there's plenty to do in spring. So as you can see, it's really snowy and it's quite thick as well. It's been three days and it is not shifting. So we'll have a go in the greenhouse. It is honestly so cold today. So to answer the question of how I heat my greenhouse, well I don't. I don't have any heaters. I never have, I never will. I did buy one of the paraffin ones years ago and I just never used it so I ended up selling it on actually. And as you can see, I don't even bubble wrap. I don't bubble wrap the windows. I don't have any fleece on the seedlings. I'm lazy. I'm a lazy gardener. I've got two kids and I don't have time for it. So the way I see it is what I sow is just on its own. I'll pop in a couple of times and I'll water every now and again but that is absolutely it. So you've got broad beans, they're doing absolutely fine. I've got autumn sown flowers. I've got nigella, cornflowers, scabious. I've even got some eucalyptus. I have honesty, this is a white one, and some snap dragons. I just, I try and only sow what I think will actually survive the winter. So vegetable wise, we've got broad beans, they're brilliant. Aquadulce, I think they are. What else do I have? I've got lettuce. So this is my favourite lettuce. It's called winter density. I grow that every, my hair isn't there. I grow these every winter and they're absolutely brilliant. So hopefully I'll have an early spring crop of lettuce again this year. So over here I do have some autumn planted shallots. Now as you can see, some of these, they look a bit like they're rotting to be honest. They don't look very good. Some of them are all right. I probably should have planted them out but I just didn't get a chance. I figured I'd start off from the beginning. So when you walk in, I think it's looking pretty green actually. You still see some snow up there. So down here we have some cement, which I think was used for the grouting. I've got garlic. Now this one is split into loads. I don't know if I just missed harvesting one last year or what, but that one has gone a little bit crazy. Got some more garlic. So I do have garlic outside as well. Anyone that doesn't know or is new here, I like to, I have a weird way of growing my garlic. I grow it in a circle over winter to make use of space because these just used to sit empty. And then come spring when it's time to plant my tomatoes out, I put one in the middle and then I grow them on together for about two months and then I'll harvest the garlic and I'll leave the tomato to continue growing. And I've had really good results with this and it means I can grow a lot more than I used to. So we've got a little hardy banana, which I think is long dead. I'm not sure if that's going to come back to be honest. That was in the bathroom. It wasn't happy. I brought it out here. It absolutely loved it. And yeah, the cold spell hit. And then I've had these chrysanthemum. They're still going actually. Some of them are a bit dead and I really should get rid of those because there's like fungal spores that will probably just go everywhere. But yeah, they're not too bad to be fair. Then you've got more garlic and my little olive tree, which has a couple of tiny little olives growing. I've got some strawberry runners, which are actually rooting now. The rest look a bit dead, but there is some new growth. Again, these are Steph's allotment. She gave me some of those from her allotment. And then we have my little salad area. Now these are just a bit of an experiment to see how they do over winter. Now I've got spring onions. They're doing okay. Lettuce. They're not doing too well. They keep, so this was all full and they just keep dying off. I don't know if it's a fungal thing or what, but yeah, they're not particularly happy. Radishes, they're doing okay. They seem all right. And then I also have these Alaska peas, which keep falling down. Yeah, they're growing. They're doing okay. They're just another experiment as well. And the seeds were from Urban Farmer. And then what else do we have? So we've got my many citrus trees. As you can see here, there's a little lemon growing. These were outside all year in 2024 because neglect with the house move. Some little baby oranges there. I don't think there's anything on this one. We have some more garlic under there. Now I didn't know how these would grow only because they're underneath the potting bench and I didn't think they would get enough sun, but so far they're growing okay. We have some more anemones and some more chrysanthemum. And then up here, I've already shown you a little bit. So we've got the lettuce, sweet peas, broad beans, lavender, some flowers, the brassicas, anemones, more sweet peas, more normal peas. And under here, these look like they're dying is charred bright lights. I never do well with these because I always neglect them. And yeah, got some onions in the back and some shallots not doing very well. Also up here, we've got some more citrus, so more lemons and some flowers about to bloom. This is finger lime. Now this looked like it was completely dead the other year. All of the leaves had to be cut off and it was just a twiggy mess and they've all come back. So I think it's, I think it's all good. The spikes on this though are horrendous. And then another little orange tree, got quite a few on here. And surprisingly, we have peppers, sweet peppers. I left these in here just again as another experiment because normally they'd be dead by now. But look at them. Now these are not going to be any good. To be honest, I should probably harvest them as well. As you can see, I mean, I think they look fairly healthy to say it's winter and it's snowing outside. So maybe this will be the year I actually managed to overwinter some peppers. Not in the greenhouse. We shall see. But anyway, that is the greenhouse tour. Whether you've got snow or sun, wherever you are in the world, I'm wishing you all the best. And if you have any questions, please do let me know in the comments.