good morning everyone today's video is just going to be a short one because to be honest i'm not
planting a whole lot in the month of october but i did want to share with you the few things that i
am putting in now my big focus for planting in the month of october you've probably already
guessed it but it is garlic so garlic does better when planted in the fall in my area
so i'm typically planting anywhere between the middle of october and about the first or second
week of november depending on the year now this year has been really unusual it's october 20th
today we've still not had our first fall frost typically that falls about october 15th and it's
been really really warm so i'm probably looking at pushing my planting date back at least till
about halloween weekend maybe even into november this year but typically if i can get the garlic in
before my ground freezes hard it does fine now you may be looking a little earlier or later depending
on your specific growing location but i highly recommend getting some garlic in if you are able
now related to garlic i'm also going to be planting some of my perennial type onions
this year i'm planting some potato onions similar egyptian walking onions or multiplier
onions they're all they're all very very similar but those do really well when planted at about
the same time as garlic and the other group of things that i plant in october here i am
doing so to overwinter them so in my area of the world typically in october it's getting too cold
the days are getting too short for anything to be planted and then still able to be harvested during
this year so these things i am starting in october they will get a very small amount of growth
and then i am typically protecting them through the winter with usually i use just small hoops
with some frost blankets you could use high tunnels hoop houses whatever you have available
but again the idea being i'm just getting them established they're going to overwinter and then
be ready for a very early spring harvest in what will now be 2022 and these are some of my most
cold tolerant crops so this is going to include a lot of leafy greens so things like kale collards
mustards chards some lettuces now be careful with the lettuces because there are definitely some
that are more cold tolerant than others i've had really good luck with winter density romaine a lot
of the red leaf types tend to be more cold hardy i definitely stay away from the more tender leaf
types like butter heads those don't hold up to the super cold really well and then of course you have
things like claytonia or miners lettuce mosh they put up with the cold like champs sometimes i can
get away with no winter protection for those arugula spinach endive cilantro is incredibly
cold tolerant and some of the bitter greens like dandelion or radicchio will do well over wintered
also now in theory some of the root crops could be overwintered think some carrots beets some of
your storage turnips rutabagas the problem that i run into with overwintering root crops is not
that they don't survive is that my little critters voles and chipmunks in particular little rodents
that like to dig will get in there and nibble on the roots in the middle of winter when there's
very little other food available for them so a lot of times with my carrots in particular i'll think
that they're doing great i'll pull them up in the spring and there's either just mush there because
they've been completely eaten away or i'll have a lot of little chew marks on them which is always
disappointing so if you're overwintering root crops just be aware of that particular challenge
and one last thing i will plant in the month of october is my winter rye cover crop of
all the cover crops i use winter rye has the easiest time getting established in the cold
and can be planted up until that first fall frost date although i tend to have better
establishment when i plant it within the first week or week and a half of october
so like i said it's a pretty short list that wraps up what i am planting
in my zone 6a ohio garden i'd love to hear from you what are you planting in
your garden during the month of october drop a line in the comments below and let me know
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