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growing an edible garden in cold climate

Posted 598 days ago

it gets very very cold [/BOLD]where we are. down to minus 6 degrees the other night.

i have a veggie garden which i planted in spring last year and had pretty pathetic veggies.

the soil is mostly sand [/BOLD]and i have added horse poo and mulch. i also ave a green crop of oats and lupins currently growing to dig back into garden.

i gave it regular watering and worm castings diluted in water over the summer but still most of the plants either died or the fruit/ veggies were stunted and pathetic.

corn was like baby corn, i dug this back into garden when summer was over.

i had 13 tomato plants but hardly any tomatoes. they were staked and had tree gards around them when they were little as we also get very bad winds.

i ended up picking the rest of the tomato wen they were green as they were just not ripening up. i also dug them into ground.

i now have sugar cane mulch and have some snap peas starting to grow.

do i just need more manure ?

i really don't have much of a clue. i have the yates garden guide and i have dug some compost into the garden as it suggested.

any help would be appreciated. thanks