Kitchen Garden, January 1819

Work doesn't stop for winter:

Throw up some new dung to heat for hot-beds for early cucumbers, &c. Dig up the ground designed to be sown with the spring crops, that it may lay and mellow. Nurse the cauliflower-plants under glasses, letting in a little air during the middle of the fine days; pick up the dead leaves and gather the mould about the stalks. Make a slight hot-bed in the open ground for young salading, and cover it in the hard weather with hoops Plant out endive for seed in warm borders, and blanch celery. Sow a few beans and peas. 

--Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book (London, 1819)