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December Vegetable Garden Calendar – short days, chilly nights, but your vegetable garden is still alive. This is the month to start sowing seeds indoors or in a greenhouse, giving you a head start on next year's gardening season. A sowing calendar shows you exactly which types of flower or vegetable seeds you can sow in December. Indoors, you can start sprouts, grow chicory from carrots, and harvest hearty winter vegetables in the vegetable garden.
By planning and sowing well now, you'll get a strong start to the season. Below, you'll find a clear overview of what you can sow in December, what you can harvest in December , what you can use from your stock, and which perennials to plant now .
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👩🌾 Sowing in December: which vegetables can still be grown?
🥬 Sowing leafy vegetables in December (under glass & indoors)
- 🪟 Spinach (Winter) - growing guidesowing spinach and our spinach seeds
Provide sufficient light by using a grow light during the dark winter months.
Spinach is a great plant to sow in December. Use our spinach seeds and sow them in pots or containers on the windowsill. A greenhouse or unheated greenhouse is ideal for growing this leafy vegetable over winter, as it protects the seedlings from the cold. This way, you can enjoy an early harvest in spring. Spinach also thrives in cold weather and can be sown outdoors, albeit under glass.
- 🏠 Chicory (from chicory roots) - growing guide for growing chicory and our chicory roots
You can also start chicory in December using chicory roots. Plant the chicory roots in a seed tray about 30 cm deep in about 10 cm of seed and cutting mix. This way, you can eat your homegrown vegetables throughout the winter.
🥦 Sowing cabbage crops in December (fast micro-cropping)
- 🏠 Garden Cress (Sprouts) - our sprout growing guide and our sprout seeds
Sprouts like garden cress and alfalfa have been cultivated and eaten for centuries for their high nutritional value. These young plants contain many essential minerals and are a concentrated source of nutrients. Sprouts are the young seedlings of various vegetables that you would normally allow to grow into large plants. But you interrupt this growth early. They are ready to eat quickly and ideal as a garnish on sandwiches and in salads. You can easily grow them at home and immediately benefit from fresh, healthy ingredients for your meals.
🥕 Sowing root vegetables in December (very early)
- 🪟 Carrot (Super early – under glass) - our growing guide sowing carrots and our carrot seeds
Carrots can be sown as early as December in an unheated greenhouse or propagator. By starting now, despite the cold winter months, you'll benefit from your seedlings growing earlier. As a result, you can harvest sooner in spring and enjoy fresh carrots from your own garden. I sow my carrots in the greenhouse along a seed bed, which I activate occasionally to keep the seeds moist.
