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Mild-Winter Garden - What to plant now?

Hello All,

After moderate success adapting my north-American gardening patterns to
my new digs (excuse the pun) on the Mediterranean, I would like to
explore the possibilities for the winter vegetable garden. Since winter
is the rainy season here, I have long realized that I was not exploiting
the better part of the gardening year here.

I am on a mountainside with a distant view of the Mediterranean coast.
Winter here is basically like a long, wet North American spring. Our
CURRENT nightime lows are 13-14 Centigrade (equals about 55 Farenheit).
That's just the low point. Days are balmy - in the 25-28 range (equals
77-82). It rains off and on - sometimes over several days at a time -
for the entire winter. We wake up to frost crystals on the ground a few
days a year - two weeks in January/Feb, maybe a light snow that doesn't
stick.

So? What can I plant now in the kitchen garden? What will happen if I
plant onions?

What cottage flowers can I start now? I am especially interested in
dianthus, godetia, and perenials.

If I install those plastic-sheet hoop tunnels over my beds, what can I
grow?

Thank you warm-climate gardeners.

Joshua
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