The doctrines of Chinese medicine are rooted in books such as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and the Treatise on Cold Damage, as well as in cosmological notions such as yin-yang and the five phases.
The vegetables you can grow in the winter in Georgia depends on where you live. If you live in the Blue Ridge Mountains up north, the winter temperatures can dive to 0 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit. If you live in the middle of Georgia, you can grow a wider range of vegetables, including Vidalia-style sweet onions.
If you live in a climate that allows you to plant outside earlier and avoid a killing frost you can put them out second week of may, if you plant outdoors earlier you risk the plants will start to flower before you want them to.I've planted at the March equinox but the plants went into flower after the first week.I do a lot of reveging to test for hermi. So if you don't want to deal with reveging a plant don't put them outside before the second week of may there isn't enough natural light to keep them from flowering. Just my $.02 worth...'ve planted at the March equinox but the plants went into flower after the first week. I do a lot of reveging to test for hermi. So if you don't want to deal with reveging a plant don't put them outside before the second week of may there isn't enough natural light to keep them from flowering.