Here in the temperate southern end of S. America, winter allows us for a bountiful treat :spinach. We have trouble with spinach in summer in spite of having cool summers. They bolt very easily without ever producing leaves. The next leaf vegetable is swiss chard that does very well in winter. Spinach can do with some frost without even noticing it. Swiss chard requires for more protection but will provide excellent greens all through out winter. A third fall/ winter vegetable is radicchio, a small head forming crunchy chicory, a bit bitter but very crunchy, the red varieties add color to salads. Finally another cool weather vegetable is fennel with its crunchy licorice flavored psuedobulbs. We grow all of these apart from those mentioned in your excellent article, and are part of our fall/winter retail organic farm to table operation .Arturo
