14 Vegetables to Plant NOW for Fall Harvest [Fall Gardening]

hey guys and welcome to this video where I'm going to be walking you through crops that you can plant now in mid to end of summer that you're going to be able to harvest through the fall and maybe even through the winter months depending upon your climate so we're going to be talking about that welcome my name is Melissa cane or it I'm the host of the pioneering today podcast and the website and the pioneering today Academy that goes with it and I would love to have you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any of our videos helping you grow and raise and eat your own food all year long so at the time of this recording as you can tell the summer garden is all around me it's a gorgeous warm sunny day so it seems a little bit odd that we were talking be talking about fall planting this time of year but in order for the plants that you put in that you want to be harvesting during the fall months it's key that you get them planted early enough that they become established before the temperatures start to drop and you get those really hard Frost's because for the majority of crops once we start to get those hard Frost's and the temperatures really start to cool down their growth rate goes down a lot so they're going to grow a lot smaller so if they don't already have a good root system and they're not already a fairly well established plant then it's really hard to get a harvest from them so growing zones are something that we have in the US and it's a way of going by what your average low temperatures are in the winter time and the average amount of days that you have in your growing season for me we usually can start planting most of our warm crops about mid-may and then I get my first hard freeze in the fall meaning it kills everything that's a warm weather plant usually mid September if we're really lucky and having an extended warm summer then the first part of October so that's just it's going to give you a little bit of information to know if your climate is similar to that so these tips are going to apply for gardening zones six through about eight so if you look on the map technically where I live it says that my gardening zone that I'm about a seven B but I know because we're up in the foothills so much into the mountains that were closer to what a gardening zone 6 is as far of those average temperatures and when our first and last frost dates happen to hit in the spring and in the fall so just so you know that's where we're coming out with these crops is that type of gardening climate so there's going to be two types of crops that you can put in this time of year to get a car vez from well into the fall and even into the winter months and we're gonna break these down by ones that you would want to put in now a planting time so end of July beginning or even mid through August but really that first couple weeks of August especially if you get those hard Frost's that are going to be coming in mid-september ish if you don't get your hard frost till October you can kind of push the August dates a little bit back but there are the crops that we need to be putting in that where we've missed the opportunity to do by seed but you can still put in if you have starts so that's going to be anything in the Brassica family so broccoli cauliflower cabbage brussel sprouts any of those crops you can put those in not by seed you won't have enough time but you can put them in by start now obviously these are not a brand new starts but you can see here where I have got my kale and our Brussels sprouts planted [Music] now the great thing about the Brussels sprouts is these really are ideal you want them to go through some hard frost before harvesting because you're gonna get the absolute best flavor of the Brussels sprouts once they have went through a frost kind of the same thing with kale so with the breast because are these cool weather plants these are great because they are improved by going through a frost yay and obviously their frost Hardy it's not gonna kill them we've even had snow on the ground and as long as it's not deep enough that it's cut is completely covered I can come out here and I can harvest my Brussels sprouts we ran out last year meaning we harvested all that we had it was getting close to Christmas it was about the beginning end of November beginning of December we were harvesting Brussels sprouts of that far interest coming out here to the garden and harvesting them so that's great now here with my kale plants again you can see that these are not itty bitty baby starts these are established but I'm going to be seeding more kale and our kale last year I harvested clear through until February and we did get up to three feet of snow last year and kale is such a great and hearty plant it slows down so I you don't get as much leaf production when you start to get those really cold of those really dark days so when it comes to be December when you don't have a whole lot of daylight and you're not having very much more temperatures the production of new leaves definitely slows down but it also holds the existing leaves until you need to pick them really well so I can almost harvest and grow kale here all year long because kale is also cold hardy so you can start it earlier in the spring but it will grow in and you it's not too late to put it and it will be established enough to grow all the way through the fall and likely into the winter months for you as well so next up on our list of plants and this is where we're going to be taking the seed and we're gonna be popping it right into the soil is going to be snow peas or sugar snap peas so you can see that this is my pea patch I've got a lot of delicious piece I come out here and snack on these things all the time but this is a great thing to put in a new crop if you've already got some going so that you're gonna be able to extend that harvest all the way through into fall now one of the things to know is when you are direct feeding some of these plants if you're getting a lot of really high temperatures where your soil is really really hot sometimes these plants that prefer a little bit cooler germination temps you might have a little bit of an issue getting some of those seeds to germinate so I always put in extra seeds knowing that I can send them out another thing is to look around your garden and see if there's any place where the soil is a little bit more shaded that you've got the space that you could plant these you can also throw up some shade claws or different things like that to try to keep the soil temps a little bit cooler things we are planting these cooler weather type crops in pretty much the mid heat of summer so I also a lot of people I don't recommend starting any type of pianned doors actually peas and beans don't really like their roots to be messed with so they're not really an ideal seed starting candidate but a lot of people will actually start those cool weather crops that they're gonna be putting in in the middle of summer indoors because it's easier to control the soil temperature to get them growing and if you're in a real warm climate snow peas are great to grow through the fall and winter because they're gonna produce better for you and really hot temperatures anything in your pee or bean family if the two blossoms get if it gets really hot and you've got a long hot spell where you're talking like 90 95 degrees Fahrenheit highs during the day a lot of times it's too hot for the blossoms to set fruit and so you'll get blossoms but you won't actually get a lot of harvest so this is a great crop to plant now to grow into those fall months so next up on our list of crops to plant in fall we are going to be getting into quite a few of our root crops and so these you are definitely going to want to do as a direct sow and first up is beets so beets are one of my favorite I like to do my beets in succession sowing so here are beets that are ready to be harvested right now here I've got a crop of beets that probably about three or four more weeks they'll be ready and then I'm getting ready to plant right now my large beet crop that I'll be harvesting well into the fall so beets are great because will tolerate some frost and if you've got them where they're well established and you have a little bit more mild winters you can mulch heavily and actually just leave the beats in the ground and then come out and harvest them through the fall provided your grounds not frozen right totally that's where the mulch comes in and you don't have so much snow that you can actually dig down they get to the beets but they are a great crop to put in and beet seed actually will germinate at a little bit higher temps so they'll germinate up to 85 degrees Fahrenheit soil temperature wise so they're a little bit easier for you to direct sow and get to grow this time of year and they'll go well into the fall for you now one tip that I like to do with my beet seed especially when we're sewing any seed this time of year and typically your soil is going to be a little bit more dry and hot because we're in the summer months is I will soak my beet seed so I've got it here in water and so I've got some beet seed joking before I plant this a little bit later today [Music] now here in this row I've got some more plants so you definitely want to be putting down now and they're gonna continue to grow into the fall for you one of those would be spinach and this is actually a Chinese spinach that's an amaranth family so this is something that you could plant and continue to grow and of course regular spinach is another great crop that does better for you in those cooler months that it's going to in the heat of summer it doesn't bolt as fast and so spinach actually grows much better in the spring or in the fall than it does in summer another thing that you're gonna want to be putting in is carrots so you definitely have time and a July first part of August to direct so your carrots to get a whole nother harvest of your carrot and the great thing about carrots now like if you're enjoying this video make sure that you are subscribed to the channel because I'm gonna be having a video coming out very shortly on carrot and planting carrots where they go in the ground a year long and also how you seed save from your carrots because it's a little bit of a different process because carrots are a biennial meaning they don't give you seeds until their second year so we're gonna be talking about that growing carrots year-round and also how to seed save your own carrot so that one's coming up but put your carrots in now you'll be able to get those to grow and they'll be developed enough if you put them in now to harvest them before we get those really hard Frost's if you wait to direct sow your carrots too late they won't die but the carrots themselves the root will be too small and once you start to get those hard frost on those really cool temperatures they go into major hibernation time and they won't grow throughout the winter months so just know once you start to get those hard for us if they're not of a large enough size they're not going to continue to grow you're not gonna able to come out like in three or four weeks later and they're gonna have grown very much they're gonna pretty much stay that size until you hit the other side of winter so that's why it's key that you actually get the carrots direct sown and growing as early as possible ideally at least six to eight weeks before your first hard frost in those the cold temps stay in another crop that grows really well during the fall and the cooler temps is going to be Swiss chard so Swiss chard is actually a member of the beet family which is why it does well in those cooler temps but it doesn't develop a root underneath well it has a root but not a root that you're going to be harvesting like you would a beet but the greens are great they really resemble you'll see the red stock there and then there's multiple colors too so you can get rainbow Swiss chard you can just get a regular Swiss chard that resembles more of a beet where it's about that pretty ruby red stock and then it's got those green leaves but that's a great one to plant to grow through the fall it's very cold hardy now another option is lettuce so lettuce especially cool hardy varieties of lettuce will grow you can get them planted now and they're gonna go through and they usually will tolerate light frost so you're gonna be able to grow and harvest them well into September and most likely October and even if you know that you've got some hard frost coming what we call a killing frost where it gets down there below the 32 degrees down into the 20 degrees then you can cover them up at night and they will grow really well for you just with a little light frost protection well into October even possibly November depending on what your average cold temperatures are so lettuce is great to plant now and I actually try to take advantage of everything that I can for the shade wise on those cool crops that are going in so I tuck my lettuce in my bean teepee so that it takes advantage of the shade provided by the beans to keep it a little bit cooler so look for planting spots like that if your direct sowing some of these cooler weather crops and the lettuce is not going to be competing with the beans and the beans by the time especially if your direct sowing right now most of your beans are going to be completely done you'll be taking them out by the time those cooler weather temps hit and it actually gets up to a harvestable size so it's a great way to use some of your existing summer crops to help grow those cooler weather fall crops now those are the crops that we're actually putting in but really any of those cooler weather crops and especially those root crops so think rutabaga turnips parsnips any of those you could also include right along with the beets and plant the one thing that I would not plant right now I would wait until it actually gets cooler is I would not be putting in your radishes so radishes are one of the things that you can plant when soil temps are even 40 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit where they're a lot cooler and your radishes will be ready to harvest and as little as three to four weeks so I would wait to direct sow and plant your radishes until we get a little bit closer to fall and those cooler temps now if you're in like zones four and five then you probably are going to be wanting to put some radishes in right now but if you don't have your first frost until mid or end of September I would wait a little bit further in before I planted those and if you are enjoying this video I have got an amazing organic gardening workshop that's going to be coming up it's gonna start October 2nd it's gonna be completely free and we are gonna be covering everything growing your own food organically from crop rotation companion planting fall planting fall gardening cold frames composting natural pest control vertical gardening like everything you can think of that involves growing your own food we're gonna be doing it's gonna be an amazing event so I just want to let you know to mark your calendars and I will have information where you can get registered for that it's going to be the organic gardening workshop and it's gonna be October 2nd of 2019 and I can't wait I'm so excited for it you also want to make sure that you're subscribed to this channel so you don't miss any of our videos when they come out so we do weekly videos sometimes more than one a week and if you're subscribed and you hit the little bell for the notifications and you will make sure that you don't miss out on any of them so let me know in the comments below if you are growing any crops for the fall so what fall crops you're putting in and what crops you're able to grow well into the cooler months and harvest

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Length: 16min 25sec (985 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 31 2019