Crops in winter

[Daredeviler_21]

Besides trees, are there any other things that can survive at -10C or lower, and either keep growing or stop growing until winter passes?

[minetime43]

farm inside

[HunterAlpha1]

Most crops will grow inside with hydroponics.

[sbmarauderman03]

It's fairly easy to grow crops during the winter. As long as you have a 12x12 area of fertile ground (even 70%), you can grow food. I build a 13x13 room and put a sunlamp in the middle, then choose what I want to grow. I keep my greenhouse warm either with campfires or heaters, depending on which resource (wood vs electricity) if more available; I tend to use campfires if wood is not scarce since a solar flare or ZZZT! event will knock out your heater. If it's not too cold, a single campfire or heater will adequately keep my greenhouse warm enough for crops to grow.

Bottom line, you need to keep the greenhouse from dropping below 20F or else your plants will die, and 50F+ for them to grow. If you have a nice-sized patch of 140% fertile ground to work with, that's a huge bonus. One of my colonies was in a desert...a cold desert; not much fertile ground to work with, but I had about a 7x9-ish patch that was 70% fertile, with a few 100% tiles mixed in as well. It was just good enough to grow the food I needed during the winter, and as luck would have it, I was hit with a blight after I had stockpiled enough food to make 5 days' worth of meals.

[Mr Majestic]

Real colonists eat raw animal blubber in -60 degree winters.

[Daredeviler_21]

I know about farming inside and hydroponics, but that's not wht I'm asking about. I was specifically asking about crops that don't die past -10C, if there are any besides trees.

[Mr Majestic]

No.