Ep. 101 - How to Prepare and What to Grow in Your Fall Garden
Ep. 101 - How to Prepare and What to Grow in Your Fall Garden  
Podcast: Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening
Published On: Tue Jul 12 2022
Description: It may be blistering hot where you are, I know it is here, but now’s the time to plan that fall garden. The biggest mistake I see with most fall gardens is they get planted too late. I did that many years in a row when I first started gardening. It just doesn’t seem like a good idea to be planting cool season crops in the heat of the summer and I would wait until September to get them in the ground. But, our first frost here is mid-October, so an early September planting date only gives me 6 weeks of growth on frost sensitive plants and that’s often not enough time to get a harvest or to really take advantage of the full harvest window of many of the plants you can harvest in the fall. As counterintuitive as it sounds, you want to get those plants or seeds in the ground early enough for them to actively be growing as the weather starts to cool down AND to be mature well before your first frost date or your Persephone period so you can actually get them harvested. Today we’ll touch a little bit on how to plan out your fall seed starting and planting schedule and then talk about the plants that typically are good for a fall harvest in most areas. Let’s dig in. This week's DRL: tending tomatoes, harvesting, fall seed starting; "Scratchman" by Tom Baker; the Barnyard Language podcast. Question of the Week: Scraggly herbs not performing well at this part of the season. What to do and how to manage them. Just Grow Something Gardening Friends Facebook Group Check out how you can become a patron on Patreon Follow me on Instagram JustGrowSomethingPodcast.com Merchandise | Just Grow Something Positively Farming Media Podcast Playlist on Spotify Gardening with kiddos w/ Karin Velez - Barnyard Language (captivate.fm) Captain Jack’s Dead Bug Brew Concentrate Captain Jack’s Copper Fungicide Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.