20 vegetables YOU CAN PLANT IN LATE SUMMER for a fall garden

hey you guys it's Josh and Karen with homesteading family and welcome to this week's episode of the pantry chat mood for thought and today we are gonna be covering fall planting 20 varieties or 20 species that you can plant in your garden probably it depends on your frost free zone right now point is there is a lot you can plant in the fall for a fall harvest and even a winter harvest yeah and in some zones you can plant them and overwinter them and be eating all year round even the winter you know even places where you get cold and you can't grow oh yeah the main season staff you can still be growing and eating right out of your garden fresh food year-round in a lot of places yeah it's gonna be different for everybody so we're gonna try to strike a middle ground right but it's gonna give you guys some ideas if you are not planting right now and getting things in the ground for fall harvester and you're missing out a lot of opportunities a lot of good food coming into your kitchen yeah so we're gonna cover that but meantime before we get to that what's going on we've been doing a lot of harvesting and preserving yeah look at this I just walked through the garden and just grabbed a few can add enough to write a couple of raspberries we've got these things coming in by the gallon you better take a few okay we've got them coming in by the gallon buckets and buckets coming in so so what do you doing with them mostly with what's gonna happen with the raspberries okay so honestly they they're most of them are destined to become raspberry jam because that's kind of our main stage all the years my favorite through the winter my favorite the kids were doing it raspberry zinger yeah we make it nice and citrusy and lemony no really good the kids love it on you know peanut butter and jelly sandwiches we love it waffles waffles all sorts of stuff so but I've been so busy I haven't had the time to actually make the jam right now so I'm measuring them I'm getting them in the freezer for the moment in about I think two weeks I am gonna be jamming jamming I'd be jamming so besides that I'm doing a lot of fermenting about a year's question for you some people may wonder because it's it's a challenge sometimes when so many things come full you know come ready for harvest at the same time and of course we're always trying to strategize and stagger out yeah what you know what come what ripens but sometimes a lot just hits you you can't get it all done course you're been working on your canning classes a lot going on so by freezing them I think that's a great way to temporarily hold them so I don't go bad does that is that gonna affect a jam much no it shouldn't it shouldn't at all especially with these berries they freeze really well especially for that short term yeah so that's not a problem but the one real trick is make sure you measure them out and label how much you have measured before you freeze them and make sure they're clean before you please them don't freeze them with stems or other things you have to deal with because that turns into a disaster so make sure you get them clean measured and labeled so that way you know when you go to pull them out you've got 4 cups of raspberries in the bag and of course you know that I'm gonna get into the freezer and I'm gonna hide a few bags so that there are some frozen raspberries for smoothies in the wintertime some of those are gonna be stuck and and I do flash freeze them so that they're scoopable by flash freezing you put them out on like a cookie sheet and freeze them that way and then put them into a bag that way they're individual frozen altogether they're not a big chunk right so you can scoop out a few to you so we're doing that and then of course the kids have been picking the wild huckleberries here if you've never had a wild huckleberry it's like a blueberry with a flavor explosively berries yeah it's really hard to like blueberries after you've gotten used to huckleberries I got to say they seem kind of bland but we're bringing in buckets of those and getting those in and then I've been fermenting a lot and I am and I'm waiting for those carrots and waiting for you to say that ready ferment more and more and practice more preservation by fermenting and I am amazed sometimes at how much you confirm it and how quick it is how easy it is to ferment something but how long it lasts in a great state and I love it that it's actually getting healthier when it's sitting in preservation mode in a ferment you're enhancing the flavor and nutrition right by fermenting as opposed to canning and canning has its place obviously fermenting also has a wonderful place yeah and is how people preserved a lot of foods or candy yeah yes we think of canning is the traditional method but most of human history has not had canning even yes yeah and so that's the carrots if you guys haven't done fermented carrots we should try to put a link up for the video she's got a video I think it for many years yeah and definitely tomatoes we don't have those any yet but if you have not fermented tomatoes yeah as a preservation method I don't just mean ferment them for three days on your counter and then eat them like so many people are doing right now with help for health things that that's great for help but I'm talking about preserving these things for six months plus in a pantry in a hopefully cool space but even a household space as a preservation method in fermenting oh yeah this is informations been about lost it's really hard to find how to do that but it's not hard watch the videos you want to talk about summertime in January oh yeah those tomatoes get about winter I feel very scattered regular homestead projects yeah and always lots to do in the garden we just did a major harvest of carrots and beets and now we're getting ready to plant a bunch of yep fall crops ourselves yeah and August is the weeds start to come on and we've got a good strategy that we keep them minimized but August always seems to be the challenge where you start to Teeter on whether they're gonna get out of control or not so doing that and I've been spending a lot of time in the computer so to take over the technical side of a canning class yep yeah and and getting not ready for release so so doing a lot there yeah and you know what we've been enjoying I've been enjoying these hotter afternoons in the river with you and the kids we have going down to the river a lot of fun and jumping in we have a swimming hole right here and we have been enjoying using it yep that's been very cool so that's about it yeah all right well let's get on to the question of the day from last week's pantry chat a rose Felton thanks Rose for this question I can understand not having dirt on your greens but what about bringing bugs in the house with the greens or is that just extra protein love it good question that's a great question what Rose is if you did not see the last pantry chat what Rose is referring to is us talking about the method that we use to grow greens in a way that they don't need to be washed when they come into the house because they stay clean from dirt and these are primarily our fresh eating greens there's a few cooking greens in there but not your chard greens right and what I have to say is don't mess with my organic protein okay rather have a few bugs right than an herbicide yeah any absolutely yeah actually you know it's not much of a problem we really don't have a problem with that very much yeah I mean there's a few in there but it's really not much of a problem and I'm sure it's different for different folks in different areas but they're not in there a long time they don't get too wet or damp or mush you certainly wouldn't want to overwater and then you how to encourage slugs and and fungus and different things but they just it just hasn't been a problem in the year so that we've done that and as we have really dialed in that strategy it just isn't much of a problem right here and they're not that we haven't had pest problems on other crops oh no there's always the greens don't seem to invite that very much and I think you know when you get your soil dialed in your soil really healthy your greens are just quick grow they're robust and when you have a plant that's really healthy like that they don't invite pests right but you're you're right you bring out a good point that pest damage to a certain degree as part of organic gardening and farming we we would rather have the past we would have rather have some vegetation that isn't as pretty as your shiny waxed store-bought mm-hmm fruit or vegetables and that is just part of a healthy ecological system that some of that is there yeah we obviously don't want our crops ruined you know and so we have to manage that but it comes with the territory and so it's something that we learn to accept we wipe away sometimes a lettuce or a chart or certain vegetable isn't as pretty as it could be but that's not priority mm-hmm if you feel like you really have an infestation of something on your lettuce or your greens when it comes into the kitchen I've found the best way to handle that is a quick soak in a salt water as your if you're going to wash it you know if you feel like gee I just can't eat this without washing it because you're uncomfortable with that then a quick soak in a salt water and then a quick rinse and I fresh water removes the dirt and anything else I kiss for us what is that maybe cabbages is the most problem because sometimes things you know certain things tend to get down in the leaves so maybe that's where yeah we would have to do that it's not that much of a problem yeah and yeah we'll take your tannic protein yeah I don't like slugs if I see slugs like I kind of want to wash yeah you know and those are a real problem for some people we don't in our environment here have a lot of problem with that makes you get a fair amount of questions and we're blessed in that yeah but geese and ducks like slugs those yeah as your garden matures a little bit if you have geese and ducks that you can bring through okay yeah let's move on to the main topic which is fall planting yeah and gotta say if you're gardening if you're if you're going beyond hobby gardening and you're trying to your homesteading if you're trying to provide food for yourself you want to move past just the idea of planting once a year once a season yes you want to learn how to plant all season long well before the last frost ever starts mm-hmm and as long before your first frost in the fall hits mm-hmm and you want to extend that season right yeah and there is a lot that you can do we're in the beginning of August and for a lot of you unless you're well what way north mm-hmm I've got right here 20 we came up with 20 species that we we're gonna plant right that we can plan well not that we're necessarily gonna all plant right now but that could be planted right now okay some of you it's gonna be a little less mm-hmm some of you it's gonna be a little more depending on where you're at yeah but that's a lot that's a major harvest yet to come and we're in the beginning of August wait you know thinking about harvesting corn and zucchini and tomatoes and winter squash in the next couple months there's a lot to get started yeah absolutely and this is really important especially as you think about the the workings of a homestead year because preserving food is a lot of work there's just no way around it it is a lot of work short of maybe your winter squashes and things that are self preserving in common storage and there's a lot of strategies for balancing out that work for you know make it more efficient but the longer you can eat fresh out of your garden the less you have to preserve it's just another preservation pantry last time we used the term living pantry the living pantry and that's really what the garden is and it needs to be figured into your preserving year that's something sitting out in the garden waiting to be preserved or waiting to be harvested is is sitting there like on a pantry waiting for you yep and that should really be one of the first preservation methods you go to is extending your harvest because it's gonna be the most efficient and one of the healthiest because you know you've got fresh vegetables you're bringing in so I think this is a really important element that you're bringing out you know plant things now and get it yeah so you're gonna harvest it longer through the season so one strategy well the strategy we employ for planting is there's three general seasons right of planting there is spring planting summer planting fall planting and then through that we want to be getting seeds in the ground at least once a week yeah throughout all of that for that continual fresh eating yeah and that minimizes while we do need to preserve and put food up that minimizes that need and allows us to just harvest as we go along let's put a few qualifiers on here we are in the far north of Idaho if you haven't been following along with us for a while and our ground not only freezes but will be under several feet of snow through a you know chunk of the winter so in some places of the country you'll be able to plant Four Seasons oh yeah absolutely in some places maybe you're having a real tight two seasons if you're much colder than we are mm-hmm but you know for us right here just so you know what we're referencing yeah that's what our garden here but a lot of the northern hemisphere temperate climate is gonna have a balance somewhere in between right and so one of the things or the key things that you need to know to be able to decide what to plant and when is a garden planner some sort of garden planner okay you guys have a lot of you have seen me talk about these I like Clyde's garden planner can we put a link to that in the description yeah you got yeah and um I like the sliding scale it has but what it does and the the key function that you need to know is what your average last frost date is okay you know or if it's springtime I'm sorry springtime average loss Wow frost date right now we need to know our which first frost date when are we gonna get that first frost yeah and so planner like this can take that and you can adjust it to your specific area knowing your microclimate what's going on in your area and from there you can start to make a decision on what you can get in the ground okay right great so how do you find out your average first frost date if you don't know say you're a new gardener you're a new location maybe so so average indicates right of an accumulation over many years so neighbors neighbors is the best way depends on where you're at some areas it's gonna be the same for a large region for us we have a lot of little micro climates and pockets and it can vary by up to a month yeah here in our area right so neighbors is your best resource yeah and get out and talk to your neighbors and find out what's going on and by neighbors I mean not just your broad community but people that are living closest to you yeah I mean if you're in the mountains it just did varies a lot so you've got to find somebody that's similar yeah and then also keep records over time for your own site so that you can start to develop what that really looks like right good yeah okay okay so we are we are figuring this we're talking about a first average first frost that is late October 2nd half of October okay is how we're basing this list okay I think that's pretty average right we hit that a little earlier I know there's a lot of you out there that are probably gonna have a little more room than that yeah awesome I'm gonna throw in a little tip here in in our area will often get one or two really early Frost's and if you can get through those early frost by either protecting the plants or what I'll tell you about right here in just a second you can get up to another month on the other side of good summer growth we sure can here yeah and so you you maybe like that where you could really extend your time if you could just make it through a couple Frost Josh has a great video out on what to do if your garden frost or freezes how to fix that I'm gonna say even freezes yeah we got we gotta freeze and I didn't I hadn't seen before yeah but definitely it'll get you through a frost so check out the video of Josh's on a quick solve method if you get a frost yep an attic so for us and we're gonna have to see this site yeah we haven't been through that on this site year so we'll see if it works like our other site did where we traditionally got a first frost in mid-september but by handling that well we didn't really need to count that as a first frost yeah and so we'd get an basically about another month absolutely good so so the list we're gonna give you here in the varieties we're gonna talk about is based on laid Viet late October okay okay and so it's gonna vary for some of you you got to understand that you got to do your own reading but this is a list that hopefully will inspire you get you thinking and about what you might be able to do to get some more in the ground and extend the season okay and in case you're watching this late right now we are at the beginning of August so in case you're viewing this video a month or two from now you have a reference point right now we're talking in reference to getting it right and so for most of us in the northern hemisphere most of this has got to get in the ground in the next few weeks yeah some of us have already lost window some of these things your window will already be gone by early in August here we've got a start maybe the lettuces stuff and and this is also not accounting for a greenhouse yes there's there's other strategies this is mostly dealing with out in the garden maybe you can employ a few strategies like some row covers you want to talk about row covers you want to talk about a greenhouse and then row covers inside a greenhouse oh right right we're not really covering that that's gonna extend your season even more now that we have a greenhouse we're gonna start strategizing playing with that and looking at how we can have harvestable veggies in late December even when we've got a foot or two a snow on the ground take some practice and work to develop but that's possible as well kid yeah okay okay so let's dive in here how about root crops we'll start with your crops here this week we're gonna be planting beet beans carrots yep we could do a few more radishes radishes I don't we don't like turnips very much we don't like turnips but you can put them in yeah if you do like rutabagas those can go in radishes were excited to be trying some new fruit flavored varieties of radishes right I like trying new things keeps it interesting anyways we'll be trying those out yeah so that's what we're doing but you could be doing carrots beets radishes turnips rutabaga the one thing you're probably not gonna get in right now is parsnips I love parsnips but they're slower growing yeah and that's good they need to be started back in the spring to be harvested yeah it was Frost yeah so those are your root crops in that's that's really exciting yeah do a lot that you can get out there and plant right now where's your meats plant them densely you can harvest some some leafy greens along the way right they add in with your chard and other things yeah okay we've got peas and beans bush means particularly yeah those can still go in right yeah yeah peas and bush beans can still go in well the peas will be real happy through a light frost they'll be just fine with that the beans you have time to grow them now until the frost right they're not gonna make it through a frost right actually right let's you kudos bush beans that are gonna grow smaller or not going up so tall um no we'll get on a schedule for peace but we've had a major pea harvest and we're not quite set up for that rotation for ourselves this fall yeah but we can totally do that if we were ready for it right now we've just got a continue to develop the the garden and the rotation structure so not so much ice we don't tend to grow bush beans but our kids love the bush beans and they have a favorite variety remember the Dragon tongue beans yeah favorite right and I don't think a year goes by that the kids don't grow dragons do they have some in their Cardinals you do yeah all right yeah we I have to order them seed specifically we've got a lot of kids maybe we should get that into the main crop yeah okay so peas and bush beans that's that's a another one a lot of good harvest right there if you get them in the ground right now a few brassicas cauliflower yeah you can do a quick quick cauliflower or broccoli but it would need to be a sprouting or an overwintering I don't know I don't know if a lot of people know about sprouting broccoli those are working really well for us we really enjoyed the sprouting broccoli that is a broccoli where you're not gonna get so much that main one big kid but you're gonna get a lot of site sprouts and a lot of times even here those will go until the ground is just completely frozen solid that would be our greenhouse isn't large enough for for taking up space with those but with a larger greenhouse that would be a great rule in the winter Stratus and they will come back early in the spring even if they've died back for the winter they will come back and start sprouting really fast as soon as it warms up at all yeah so you that's a great that's why they call them the overwintering is they kind of come back on early spring late winter yep and so that's a really good one to put in right now cool cabbages some cabbages not a lot especially like the Chinese cabbage yes those are really good stir fries those are my favorite really really good they're really good yeah you can tell we like stir fries a lot they're very very handy they're very handy when you're eating out of the garden I just put up a post today on Facebook for our homestead stir-fry okay with with a lot of the dragon stir-fry mix the greens mustards bok choy scales yeah and fresh eggs oh yeah you know hard-boiled eggs yeah and bacon yeah homestead stir-fry but that's a great one other varieties and that's the exciting thing about the stir fries is they can just you can use whatever's in the garden well they work great for our family cuz you can just take a bunch whatever you've got one mix it up cook it up in the cast-iron pot and you're good to go yeah okay let's see here we get into a lot of other leafy some other cooking greens chards yeah you got to get the chart in now yeah yeah tails mm-hmm spinach oh yeah spinach can go for a while you can meet Matt in some time and I'm starting to add now more spinach into our weekly rotations yeah so chard kale spinach --is mustards mustards for leafy greens that is a great season extender it grows fast it comes up early you can take a little bit of the cold yeah so we've always got mustard going within that succession one of our favorite varieties is the Green Wave mustard it is a nice upright variety that you can makes a good cuddle green it's a great stir-fry with a little bit of stuff but even just mustard really good just good to me it's as good as spinach it is it's very good it's a little hot raw it's a little spicy actually it can be really spicy raw but as soon as you cook it it gets really mild yeah yep and then you've got tons lettuce all kinds of you know yeah and you can be planting lettuce now and you know find your shorter seasons and again if you remember and what we talked about last week we are not trying to get lettuce two full heads we're drawing them densely and harvesting as microgreens baby lettuce may be a little taller we want upright varieties if you CRO with that strategy the the seasons a lot shorter you can even be harvesting within 21 days you know and some of it goes up to six weeks but that's a great way to keep the fresh eating I love all the cook greens but I want something raw and fresh mm-hmm throughout as much of the season as we can get and growing lettuces this way really does that you can then take you can do some row covers or take it into the greenhouse and you can keep those going yeah there's a lot less you got to figure out what works for you oh you've got things like your arugula and other things that in Sorrells sorrel you can put in pretty much any time of the year that you can put seeds into the ground that's a really good one nice lemony spinach pretty yeah really good yeah I did Santa in Sorrells a perennial yes no yeah and that's a whole nother subject we got to talk about some time we got to get into your garden yeah and perennial greens but you don't have to reseed every year that are great for harvesting and cooking also they're cooking greens yeah yep but but that's great arugula you said bok choy mm-hmm and then that kind of goes into mescaline mixes yeah and well hi there we have a visitor today yeah and so your mescaline mixes and that's something I'm gonna start doing more with that a lot of market gardeners do mescaline mixes either you can plant them once they'll regrow and still have good flavor and grow quickly and you get a lot of variety what is a mescaline mix so my understanding is that it's a it's originally a French Market Garden strategy okay so comes from French market gardens though though you'll see like Baker Creek has a European mescaline mix that we grow but it is a variety of different upright leafy type greens mm-hmm they can be cooking greens or raw eating greens but you're able to plant them and harvest two to three times throughout the season okay so market gardeners love them for that reason you can harvest Mall okay yeah and you can rehearse so so that is a Market Garden strategy because of the size and scale of our household and what we do here I'm starting to employ more and more Market Garden strategy and so that's a good one but I'm also finding it's worth sharing with you guys because even on a small scale a lot of those strategies are geared toward you know efficiency productivity and you know we have to balance that with with land management soil development but there's there there's plenty of people out there doing organic you know market gardening that are nurturing the soil you know and taking care of their resources so so love the masculine mixes cilantro is another one we always try to have cilantro going we love it of course in any of our Mexican dishes and tacos but it's regularly in our salads I love it just in the green salad yeah that's great yeah I think that's pretty much yeah we covered everything on our list that's 20 so carrots beets radishes turnips cauliflower broccoli peas bush beans cabbage chard kale spinach mustard lettuce mescaline mixes cilantro rutabaga sorrel arugula bok choy all right wow that is a lot that you can do right now depending on where you're out some of you your list may be longer yeah you know those things in the discrete in the comment section if you have things that you're planting right now and that you can plant in your area right beyond what your expected first frost date is and what you're planting or what you plan on planting the next few yeah because there's other people watching who are in your your zone your frost expected date absolutely and that can help them out so jump in with your you know your crops on that and and so it kind of ended up for us targeting mid-october prostate some of the things we're doing we're actually not doing all that we could just because we're in first year mode we're still developing beds and systems you know we didn't put garlic absolutely yup garlic well yeah that goes in in October and of course it's not seed yeah but but yeah that'll be going in in late September October mm-hmm but for us carrots beets radishes chard kale spinach cilantro some of the masculine mixes which will have a regula bok choy those those will all be going in here in the next week and even several more weeks for our succession beds for a micro green stuff that we're not trying to get up to sighs okay and actually we have a greenhouse which is really cool and so we'll actually be even planting first week of September for a second week of September some of that I know was gonna do well some of it'll be an experiment but that is for pushing that harvest even for us into December okay well guys hope that helps you hope that gives you some good ideas on keep planting seeds nurturing your soil and keep planting seeds and experimenting and learning what you can do to extend and grow your harvest okay absolutely it is not too late to put in a bed even if you're not planting yet even if you haven't started a garden don't let that stop you it's not too late to just put in a few lettuce plants to get a little experience and don't be afraid of failure failure is what's gonna show you where your boundaries are yeah yeah and what works and what doesn't work don't don't put it off because somebody tells you you can't yeah you gotta try things out on your site just sometimes different places on your site so so part of the journey is experimenting and just having fun with it seeds are not that expensive cheap experiment they really are a cheap experiment and so if you're not sure try it don't let somebody tell you you can't do it try it and see I you know I want to add one tip here I know we're gonna go a little bit over time but I want to bring out one special challenge that there that exists with planting this time of year versus planting in the spring okay and that's keeping your seeds watered yo yeah yeah cos you're you do you need to make a special provision for getting out there because it's hot it's hot and drying a lot of places of the country right now you need to get out there and make sure you sea beds stay moist enough that your seeds can germinate and that's a challenge you you need most of the lot of these seeds need to be watered lightly multiple times you can't take a heavy sprinkler so you need micro sprinklers or you need misters so either get out there two to three times a day by hand with a wand or you know if you've got some micro sprinkler system and timer there's different strategies that you got to figure out what works for you but that that is a challenge and that's where some people don't have success because they don't understand and you know you've got to keep your soil moist in that germination period for a lot of these things yeah because they're not planted as deeply in the top dries out quick so good good good point okay so next week right we are talking canning it is preservation season right now yeah usually we'd be talking here a little bit more about canning fermenting different things but honestly I've been talking about it so much during the filming of my canning class so you're gonna have to check that out yeah but but I'm gonna start talking about it more here just in public yeah right you're gonna have a little more availability for that now that you're done with production so next week we're gonna talk about canning and I think you're gonna specifically answer some questions or or deal with remind me we're gonna be talking about the big no knows the things you should either where you get into trouble or where you know major mistakes that people make in canning oh and I think that's probably gonna address a lot of people's fears right I think there's a lot of fear out there about canning that isn't necessary yeah yeah and so I think that's gonna help people out help you out a lot so join us next week thanks for being here today it's been really cool to hang out with you guys don't forget to leave us your questions your your topic ideas your questions we are gonna be doing a once a month QA that was really well and so we can get more to then to more questions than just the one every week right so we'll we'll do a longer session and get to as many questions as we can so make sure and drop them in here it's a couple weeks out but we'll get to that as well yeah and don't forget please to just share and like and yeah so that we can continue to grow yeah and thanks for hanging out with us thank you guys we will see you soon bye [Music]

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Published: Fri Aug 02 2019