good morning i'm getting ready to transplant some cabbages
and i thought i would share with you what is getting planted in my garden
right now it's almost mid-august for my fall garden now i feel like at least
around here a lot of people think that come like the end of august
kind of beginning of september the garden opportunity is done and it's
a shame because i feel like they're missing out on one of the best
seasons for gardening and i'm talking about of course putting in a fall
garden now here i'm in zone 6a in ohio i typically do all the same crops that i
would do in my spring garden so that's you know leafy greens, brassicas,
beets, carrots all of those types of things
there are a few exceptions but i'll go into those in in a bit
but just kind of wanted to give you an idea of what i'm planting
and what the timing is for a fall garden here
so let's take a look so as i mentioned i am transplanting
Chinese cabbage today and with things like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower,
kohlrabi, um fennel also i start those indoors about the first
week of july for a transplant into the garden
mid-august and with these crops i have found that i
actually have to set a reminder on my phone or computer write it on the
calendar because mid-july i'm not typically
thinking about my fall garden and i've forgotten too many years in a
row i just set myself a reminder now plus i
found that it's fairly difficult at least in my area to find
transplants for the fall at the time that i need them in the garden center so
i like to start my own i've got carrots and daikon radish in
this section and again everything here was planted
august 5th these typically i can plant anywhere
from about july 25th till august 15th and with a little
especially with a little protection they can extend into the season
and then i will plant now this is a daikon radish i'll plant my regular
little round rooted radishes probably in a couple weeks do a
progression sowing on those and i'll also do some of those little
white salad turnips as well i will also start herbs like dill and
what's nice is the timing works out about perfectly for
me this was spring planted dill that i let bolt and go to seed
now these seeds are ready and i can actually just throw these
in some open ground in the garden and a lot of them will come
up i can do the same thing with cilantro calendula a lot of those spring planted
herbs and flowers that i let bolt will now come up in the fall
now peas are one of those tricky crops for me in the fall i can never seem to
get the timing quite right i planted these just a few days ago
on august 5th and they probably should have been done about two weeks earlier
i planted a super early maturing variety in hopes that i would get these before
it got too cold so we'll see i'm also going to be
starting anywhere from the end of july up until almost the beginning of
september things like rutabaga, kale, radicchio, endive,
um escarole, all of my leafy greens, spinach,
lettuce and with lettuce in particular because it's such a
quick maturity again you can do succession plantings with that where
you're starting i typically don't like to start anywhere
before about the beginning of august because it's so
hot that lettuce just does not like it here
but starting at the beginning of august all the way up till
mid-september and sometimes later you can do succession plantings of lettuce
here and get continual harvest now one thing to note with typical when
you're looking at fall planting and frost dates and all of that timing
those most often do not take into account
supplemental protection so if you're doing something like a cold frame or a
hoop house or row covers you can extend your season even deeper
into the winter than what you will see on most of those
recommended dates so in particular things like cold hardy
leafy greens spinach is a great one kale, chard,
lettuces, root crops like carrots, radishes,
turnips with protection depending on your zone
you can be harvesting those things up until the middle of winter sometimes
later just depending on how cold your winter
gets now that's a whole nother video which i hope to get into at some point
but just know that extending your season into the winter is an option in many
growing areas of the united states the other major planting that i am
typically planning in the fall are my cover crops so you can see here i've got
buckwheat this was my this is my summer warm season cover crop
in the fall what is typically in my cover crop
arsenal are things like daikon radish, clover, hairy vetch, field peas,
rye and depending on what i'm wanting to achieve and where
i'm planting i'll use different mixtures of all of those things now as i
mentioned there are a couple differences from the spring garden and those are
things like my summer squash and my beans
so my typical first planting date for summer squash and beans is
that frost free date which is about mid-may for us but i can do progressive
sowings for summer squash up until about the
middle of july, for beans it's about that first week of
august and still continue to get harvest up until the first frost
now if you're interested in planning a fall garden but aren't quite sure of the
timing for your specific area there are some great resources
online you can also always contact your local extension
agent for information about fall planting and what crops will do best for
you in your area so drop a line in the comments below do
you typically do a fall garden and what are some of your favorite things to
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