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The french refer to leek greens as pig fodder. In France they pre sprout the leak, and then pop in down into a 12-16 inch deep hole so they end up with a long white root to eat. They just let the rains wash to soil down around it as it grows.
I`m gonna try beets, the little round Paris Market carrots, turnips, rutabagas, kohlrabi, collards, mustard and radishes and fall potatoes. I have some leeks in a pot. Worms ate the onions and leeks in my garden. Garden dust failed to harm them at all. TIP: Take cuttings from a cherry tomato plant in August and start about 10 new plants. Cover them if a light frost comes. Here in Louisiana mine produce through the hot summer and up until late December if I cover them. Then I bring a cutting indoors and keep it alive in winter and put it back in the garden in March for a quick harvest then clone several more.
I’m a zone 6a, last year I planted spinach and cilantro in the fall and it produced all winter long. It was on the south side of a metal building so was protected from wind. Also, when we had 0 degree weather, there was 6” of snow protecting them from hard cold. Let’s hope it works again this year
I know. Time flies by. We had a beautiful, low(er) humidity week last week, but wow, did it come back with a vengeance this weekend. Humidity is back, highs in the 90's, sweaty and sticky, but we have a little break mid-week again where it gets a little drier. These little breaks are the first cracks in summer's grip.
@@TheMillennialGardener I`ve heard several of you say the Brown Turkey Fig is terrible. I`m beginning to get my first ripe ones and they`re sweeter than Celeste here in Louisiana and absolutely delicious. I wonder if the tree I ordered actually IS a Brown Turkey tree? It has 5 thick lobes on the leaves but the fruits are much larger than Celeste with a slightly open eye. The leaves look like Smith or Chicago Hardy to me. I know lots of figs are mislabeled. As long as it`s cold hardy it`s a really great tree. I hope all this 2nd year growth survives winter.
I love growing collards in the fall. It gets them well established and then I can harvest off them almost an entire year because they’re pretty heat tolerant (even here in east Texas) if well established. I have collard plants over a year old that I cut almost down to the ground and figured they’d compost in place but no, they grew back! What the what? Yeah. It’s pretty crazy if you ask me. I have had so many harvests off of them they’re more like little collard trees haha but I also got so many greens that I was able to freeze I decided to can some up and boy are they good cooked with bacon, Cajun seasonings, onions and then pressure canned. One pint jar of southern style collard greens mixed with two jars of black eyed peas and it’s the perfect side dish to andouille sausages with cornbread. Oh my it’s good! 😊
A very helpful and encouraging video on how to enjoy some good ,hardy veggies in the winter. Here in east central Tenn.( Zone 7 b) I grew wonderful kale,leaf lettuce ,and bunch onions during the winter with little to no damage. On nights with mild temps ( 30s to 40s) Id throw a heavy blanket or two plus a plastic tarp to shed rain on top of those veggies. The covers rested on stakes placed a foot apart that cjust cleared the tops of the plants.The next day Id take off the blankets/ tarp if it got over 45 degrees F. When it turned really cold at night ( all the way from 26 to 5 degrees F. ) I' d add to the blankets a tarp sandwich which was made up a filling of 12" of leaves or straw that keep out the cold temps and rain/ snow. The tarp sandwich covered the entire plot and was easily removed when the temps got back to between 35 and 50+ degrees. Very little damage was had with this setup. Thanks for recommending the leeks,bunch onions,carrots,and collards- I' ll be adding those along with some nice leaf lettuce plants to boot. Hopefully this system of mine will come through for me this upcoming winter.Thanks M.G.man for another timely video!
Great video, Anthony! We are in Zone 5B and spend the winters in Florida. We plant hardneck garlic and come back in the Spring to great bulbs! Thumbs up from Iowa. Hugs to Dale!
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I have some of my seedlings getting ready to go into the garden here in Ohio! I’m growing Collards, mustard, kale, Brussels Sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces, garlic, & direct seeded carrots! Your channel is one of my faves! I love the Dale moments at the end too!
I'm in Arizona and I've had many crops fail in Summer and Winter, but one thing that grows amazingly well for me all Winter long is kale. I grow more than I can eat every year. I love sweet carrots. I'll be trying them this winter
@@SilverCreekHomestead I think you still have time to try again, depending on where you are. I did nothing special to mine, except good soil and lots of sun in the winter.
OMG you are the FREAKIN MAN!!! I’m so excited to keep growing in the winter now! Thank you so much for including so much info for colder climates, it’s helps a lot especially for a new grower 😊
Look up the Persephone period for your area. That's the time when you will get less than 10 hours of sunlight per day. Your veggies need to be mature by that date, as they will have little or no growth during that period. If mature, they will keep outside, like you have an outdoor refrigerator!
You and Dale have a great partnership, and your channel is so organized, I watch the whole thing and then have to say I love your notes and shortcuts to review. Thank you!
Thank you for advice in your videos. You and several others have improved my Ohio gardening. I can use and/or adapt your suggestions despite zone differences. Thanks for your dedication to youtube. Love the adventures with Dale.
my grandparents always left the carrots in the soil til they used them over the winter. It works in wv/southern ohio not so sure about where youre at though. It gets really cold here in the winters. They love growing there collards during the winter too! I threw some cold hardy lettuce out in late september and it grew over the winter all the way til june as well!
I didn’t know that about carrots! Thanks for the info! And thanks for timestamping each vegetable so I can skip through because of lack of time watching the entire video… thumbs up from GA Zone 8b
You in the south of course we grow them collards 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 I live in Kansas now about to try to grow them here grew them when I lived in Mississippi in the 90’s and watermelon it’s been hard here in Kansas but I’m tryna get it down good video
Great video like always! Harvested my first crop of garlic this year. It was very rewarding. I'm thinking these will be too! I'm going for the leeks and carrots. Thank you!
Why does nobody hardly ever mention Parsnips? I live in Minnesota and plant them in late summer & leave them in the ground for the following spring. Yumm!
RE: Bunching Onions. I love Garlic Chives. I'm in 8b N of Houston. If we get a 20 degree day they will just freeze the tops and pop back up in the spring. I have a big bunch in my garden that has been there for 18 years.
This is a great video who want to keep gardening throughout the winter season. I was only successful with hardback garlics at my zone 6b. Yes, the evergreen long white bunching onions are so hardy even at my climate. My pops perked up when Dale barked. LOL😂 I'm glad he finally got his peaceful day without the thunder. Poor thing🥲 Thanks for sharing your video.
We had a good stretch of days without thunder. We did get some last night, but it passed us by. More dry weather is on tap for the next 2-3 days, which is great, because we got 17 inches of rain from Debby and desperately need to dry out.
Thank you so much. Now I know why my last fall Garlic fell over. Zone 6b. We had an extra mild winter. We mulched heavy but I did not water them after they grew 4 inches. One clove on each is better than nothing. Looking forward to carrots and onions through out winter depending on weather. >>>>> I should know better. We started onion seeds last spring. ... I was going to just plant onion seeds outside. Will start seeds indoors. Thank you Tony.
I grow hardneck garlic here in 8b. It's easy. I store my cloves in a paper bag in the fridge for 4-6 weeks before I plant them. I got *big* bulbs this year. They're great.
Last winter here in Boston multiple Kale plants successfully overwintered with no frost protection. Btw, if my giant pumpkin makes it to a weigh off this fall Dale is coming too, at least on a T-shirt from your merchandise store.
That's really solid. Kale here in Zone 8 is bulletproof, and I've heard people in Zone 6/7 being able to overwinter where the leaves take damage, but the stems survive and the leaves grow back once winter lets go.
I'm in zone 9a, NW FL. My summer harvest is almost nothing and I blame the high temps. Am looking forward to plant those 5 winter crops. Thanks for the info and wish me luck!
If you install shade cloth in May, the heat won't be as much of an issue any you'll get solid harvests all summer: ruclips.net/video/SbWcCxV7OOE/видео.htmlsi=i3Hv2bAF7Lprd2lw
I've been growing a variety of Asian greens this year including komatsuna, bokchoy, and mizuna. Tatsoi is one I didn't know about, so thank you for mentioning it!
I've got my collard seeds ordered. I'm trying the Yellow Cabbage Collard and the Alabama Blue Collard this year. Only a few of my carrots from the spring made it. But I think I'll try some again for the fall and also some bunching onions.
The collards sound good! For carrots, you need to overseed the heck out of them. Germination is poor. Check out my carrot germination trick here: ruclips.net/video/Rr-Pr6HlAnU/видео.htmlsi=LTmtl5gMIYueJDy1
@@TheMillennialGardener Oh yeah, I watched all the carrot videos back last winter when I was planning stuff. But the sudden heat snap in spring did most of them in. Prior to that they looked good. Not giving up though and maybe fall/winter is the better time here. Just trying to figure out my growing area.
Hi! Thanks for awesome videos! I have been enjoying many of your videos. I wondered if you let your raised bed or plot rest for rotations. If you do, could you make a video about tips? I have four 4 x4 raised bed, and I don’t know if I should plant fully in four all the time or let at least one box to rest and not planting in it to rejuvenate the raised garden box.
I noticed in an old fig tree video of yours that your Celeste tree has leaves exactly like my Brown Turkey did when it was younger (stubby 3 lobed leaves...now the leaves look more like Chicago Hardy or Smith) and my Celeste trees have very different leaves from yours: some are somewhat triangular "shield" shapes with jagged edges and others are very long narrow fingered leaves on the same plant. I harvested only one "Brown Turkey" fig so far and it was the sweetest fig I`ve ever tasted and had the flavor of kinda like slightly brown unbleached sugar. So there`s no telling what I have. I ordered them from nurseries in Florida and California. They sure are growing fast!
Great video! It has been a tough season for me with deer and ground hogs destroying most things, but I'm ready to install a deer net and hopefully we can start again with a fall and winter garden
Don't under estimate the cold hardiness of collards. I always grow them every year, including the year of that polar vortex a few years back. We got down to -10 for a week. The collards did just fine. Only minimal tip damage. Same for red russian kale and swiss chard. Even snapdragons pulled through just fine.
I like being conservative with these videos. I don't want to tell a person to expect hardness to below 0 temps, then have them be disappointed. I give reasonable temperature guidance in hopes that people will plan for it and have even better success. The last thing I want to do is tell someone their collards will take -10F, then they don't protect them and they get destroyed and they lose their harvest. I can vouch for collard hardiness in the teens, but I don't want to tell folks to expect miracles with a leafy green. I'd rather them have their expectations exceeded, if that makes sense.
Learned so much from you - But .... when I use leeks, I use the "white" root part for most recipes. The green can be used in stock etc. So check out recipes for the white part.
This year will be my first fall garden and I'm stoked, thanks to you! I've got carrots just breaking through and cabbage and lettuce planted in starter trays that I plan to put out when it cools down in my ATL garden. I did do garlic last year and got one really great braided rope to hang behind my stove, adorable and nummy! I'm only a little concerned about my garden not getting much sun as the season ends though. This will be interesting!!
AWESOME! You are going to LOVE fall gardening, especially in Atlanta. It's a million times better than summer gardening. The pests go away, you don't have to water as much, the sweating stops, etc. And it gets easier as the season progresses instead of harder (like summer). It's just great.
Hey Anthony! what’s up from hot sunny Puerto Rico! I’ve been following for a while and I think I can recommend a type of celery for you. I mean if I grew it here I bet you can in NC! I don’t know if you already tried it but I’m impressed. The name is Tango celery from johnnys, code 647G. I grow it in full shade because the sun is just too hot. Hasn’t bolted, growing strong! It took a beating 2 days without water and sprung back again real quick. You got me started with my garden 4 years ago, I can grow almost anything now thanks to your help… even celery.
Thank you! I never planted anything for winter, but now I think I may try planting! Any advice for watering and fertilizing through the winter with these veggies you recommended growing?
Winter gardening is a lot easier. The evaporation rate is generally low (unless you live in South Florida where it's warm and has a dry season). You often have to water very little, because it rains more than the weak sun can evaporate the soil. You just have to stick your finger in the soil 2 inches to check if it's dry. If it is, water. Things grow slowly in winter, so usually they only need compost and maybe a little bit of a granular organic fertilizer.
Do you refrigerate your garlic before planting? I am in Burlington North Carolina and I raise soft-neck. But I refrigerate it for a month or so before planting in October. The seed company sends it to me in September. I love Cosmic Purple Carrots planted for all winter. I do grow collards, swiss chard, and several varieties of kale all winter. Cut and come again! My pit bull Layla says hi to Dale!
It is rough here on the immediate coast with the seasonal rain, but luckily, it is letting up. We have a mostly dry week ahead and a few nights with lows in the 60’s 🤯
Enjoying this false fall here! I’m hoping to find some garlic & ginger to plant soon! I’m ENC, too, but I was thinking they needed to go in a pot so they could go in greenhouse in winter. No?
Mr.Dale I have a question for you about cantaloupes. I live in Decatur Alabama and this was the first time I tried growing cantaloupe. I have 35 beautiful healthy plants but they are all male's. I bought two packages is that normal and does it happen alot??????
I grew a couple this summer from the grocery store cantalope I got last summer (its seeds). My first two small ones got overripe, I wasn't sure when to harvest, but I'm about to harvest two more this week. They're small (in growbags) but next year I'm going to put them on the trellis in my main garden. They did well and no bugs at all!
How long have they been doing that? Mine always start with all male flowers then get a few female flowers. I'd say the longest I've seen them go like that is about 2.5 weeks.
Cantaloupes have both male and female flowers. Are you saying your cantaloupes are only producing male flowers and no female flowers? Typically, cucurbits produce male flowers heavily at first, because male flowers take less energy for a young plant to make, and the pollen has to come first and you just have to be patient. If your vines are large and have never produced a female flower, that indicates to me environmental stress. Maybe it's too hot, too sunny, too dry, too wet, they aren't getting the nutrients they need, etc. If you are getting brutalized by heat and drought, you may need to irrigate them well, feed them well and give them some shade cloth. My watermelon plants stopped producing female flowers all July. Last week, we had a stretch of 5 days in the mid-80's and it fell into the 60's at night, and POOF, suddenly, they produced a couple female flowers. My guess is it's just too hot and they need shade cloth or a cold front.
Yes all the vines have only male flowers. They have just started for the past three weeks blooming. And also for the last couple of weeks here in Decatur Alabama it was very hot with the heat index from 106 to 110.,
I discovered the same thing with collards and the winter. I have two small containers that were my first attempt at collards, and I did nothing with them - even allowed them to go to seed and wilt back, and they survived the winter and regrew. After observing that, I planted a new set in 5 gallon buckets, and will watch how things go this winter. (I'm in the 8A zone of N.C., about 250 miles northwest of MG.)
One NC note, be aware of insect pressure, those mature summer insects are very quick compared to Spring so consider a preemptive or be prepared for quick responses, it will save some frustration.
Greetings from FL, zone 10a. I've learned so much from your videos, thank you! I do have a question. As I'm watching here I notice you have tunnel frames over your beds, even under the shade cloth. What are those used for? Per your guidance, I did put 40% shade cloth over my container garden. Now I'm wondering if I need tunnels as well. Thank you! Garden on! :-)
Can you do an herb planting video please? I want to know when I can plant fall cilantro in zone 8a? And should I start in seed trays or do they do best sown direct?
I have a ton of videos organized by month: www.youtube.com/@TheMillennialGardener/search?query=plant%20in Cilantro does best direct sown, but it needs cold soil. If your soil isn't cold, you'll need to start it indoors, possibly in the refrigerator.
I planted collards last fall in 9b we ate collards all summer and still had collards last night. I do have them in containers under a tree. I guess I will let them keep going.
If you are talking about the crops specifically mentioned in this video, the collards *definitely* need to go indoors to prevent bolting. Carrots must be direct-sown. You cannot transplant them, so it is what it is with carrots. They should be OK being direct sown in 8b now. Bunching onions and leeks can be started in shade outdoors under your rain gutters right now and they'll be fine as long as they're not exposed to rain. Heavy rain can dislodge the seeds. If you don't have a protected location, start your leeks and bunching onions indoors and carry them outside in a protected location when they germinate. Garlic, it's way too early to plant. I store my garlic in the fridge for 4-6 weeks, then plant them around November 1 in 8b here.
Thank you! I feel like garlic should come with a "harvest time" warning. I was under the impression that when my tomatoes were ready to go outside in spring (March/April in my 7b zone), my garlic would be done... nope. I ended up pulling my garlic early to make room in my garden for summer veggies that needed to go out 2 months before my garlic should have been pulled. Won't make that mistake this year!
Oh wow! I'm in zone 7b and we can not put out tomatoes until the end of April! Ours do better when we wait until the first of May! Learned my lesson on stunted tomatoes and peppers!!
@@sassyherbgardener7154 I live in a swampy area of Southern VA. I have a pretty intense microclimate. I can put out my potatoes March 15th and my tomatoes and squash under frost protection. My garden is at the top of a small hill and so the moisture and cold air sinks down to the lower lying areas; which, in turn allows me to get a jump on my summer crops.. as a trade off I can't plant any Brassicas in the spring. Interestingly, okra will get stunted. I'm always trying to get my okra going before they're ready. Did it again this year and my okra are only 3 feet tall in September. But my tomatoes are still producing!
Do you mean the dark green tarps over my garden beds? Those beds are resting. They were amended with compost and they're sitting under a tarp to prevent any weed seeds from germinating or landing in my beds. They are where I will put fall crops.
If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" it and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Introduction
1:25 Fall Vegetable #1
3:45 Fall Vegetable #2
6:55 Fall Vegetable #3
9:20 Fall Vegetable #4
12:41 Fall Vegetable #5
17:41 Adventures With Dale
The french refer to leek greens as pig fodder. In France they pre sprout the leak, and then pop in down into a 12-16 inch deep hole so they end up with a long white root to eat. They just let the rains wash to soil down around it as it grows.
“Thrive on neglect” is music to my ears😅
That's what I was going for. These are as low maintenance as it gets.
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Garlic, leeks, bunching onions, carrots, collards. Thank you God bless you Maranatha
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I`m gonna try beets, the little round Paris Market carrots, turnips, rutabagas, kohlrabi, collards, mustard and radishes and fall potatoes. I have some leeks in a pot. Worms ate the onions and leeks in my garden. Garden dust failed to harm them at all. TIP: Take cuttings from a cherry tomato plant in August and start about 10 new plants. Cover them if a light frost comes. Here in Louisiana mine produce through the hot summer and up until late December if I cover them. Then I bring a cutting indoors and keep it alive in winter and put it back in the garden in March for a quick harvest then clone several more.
I’m a zone 6a, last year I planted spinach and cilantro in the fall and it produced all winter long. It was on the south side of a metal building so was protected from wind. Also, when we had 0 degree weather, there was 6” of snow protecting them from hard cold. Let’s hope it works again this year
This has the most information condensed by far more then any other channel. Amazing garden too.
Thank you! I really appreciate that a lot.
I agree he has so much information in short videos love them
I watch a bunch, in the last 15 months. And this is a true statement in my eyes
Been learning and watching a lot in 14 months and I find this to be a true statement. He's precious
Its the best all-around gardening channel on RUclips.
Can't believe it's almost fall already. Seems like yesterday i was starting my pepper seeds with snow outside.
I know. Time flies by. We had a beautiful, low(er) humidity week last week, but wow, did it come back with a vengeance this weekend. Humidity is back, highs in the 90's, sweaty and sticky, but we have a little break mid-week again where it gets a little drier. These little breaks are the first cracks in summer's grip.
@@TheMillennialGardener I`ve heard several of you say the Brown Turkey Fig is terrible. I`m beginning to get my first ripe ones and they`re sweeter than Celeste here in Louisiana and absolutely delicious. I wonder if the tree I ordered actually IS a Brown Turkey tree? It has 5 thick lobes on the leaves but the fruits are much larger than Celeste with a slightly open eye. The leaves look like Smith or Chicago Hardy to me. I know lots of figs are mislabeled. As long as it`s cold hardy it`s a really great tree. I hope all this 2nd year growth survives winter.
I love growing collards in the fall. It gets them well established and then I can harvest off them almost an entire year because they’re pretty heat tolerant (even here in east Texas) if well established. I have collard plants over a year old that I cut almost down to the ground and figured they’d compost in place but no, they grew back! What the what? Yeah. It’s pretty crazy if you ask me. I have had so many harvests off of them they’re more like little collard trees haha but I also got so many greens that I was able to freeze I decided to can some up and boy are they good cooked with bacon, Cajun seasonings, onions and then pressure canned. One pint jar of southern style collard greens mixed with two jars of black eyed peas and it’s the perfect side dish to andouille sausages with cornbread. Oh my it’s good! 😊
Thank you for the timestamps. They're helpful when I need to review each veggie. 😊
You're welcome! I try to make it easy where possible 😀
1st time seeing the channel. I like the effort he puts into the videos. Subscribed 👍
A very helpful and encouraging video on how to enjoy some good ,hardy veggies in the winter. Here in east central Tenn.( Zone 7 b) I grew wonderful kale,leaf lettuce ,and bunch onions during the winter with little to no damage. On nights with mild temps ( 30s to 40s) Id throw a heavy blanket or two plus a plastic tarp to shed rain on top of those veggies. The covers rested on stakes placed a foot apart that cjust cleared the tops of the plants.The next day Id take off the blankets/ tarp if it got over 45 degrees F. When it turned really cold at night ( all the way from 26 to 5 degrees F. ) I' d add to the blankets a tarp sandwich which was made up a filling of 12" of leaves or straw that keep out the cold temps and rain/ snow. The tarp sandwich covered the entire plot and was easily removed when the temps got back to between 35 and 50+ degrees. Very little damage was had with this setup. Thanks for recommending the leeks,bunch onions,carrots,and collards- I' ll be adding those along with some nice leaf lettuce
plants to boot. Hopefully this system of mine will come through for me this upcoming winter.Thanks M.G.man for another timely video!
Im In The Uk And I Grow All Sorts 😉🍄🔥 Gonna Give the winter veggies a go now after watching this 👌
Love your video...straight to the point and easy to follow for new gardners
You’re so easy to learn from! Love this channel! Wonderful explanations. I feel like I can do this! 💪
Great video, Anthony! We are in Zone 5B and spend the winters in Florida. We plant hardneck garlic and come back in the Spring to great bulbs! Thumbs up from Iowa. Hugs to Dale!
Nice! You can do the same thing with bunching onions and leeks if you like them.
Love It!!!!!! As Always You I Must Tell You I So Thank You. My Goal Is A Working Garden and YOU My Friend Are So Making It Happen! Much Love And Thank You!!! My Husband Said He Was So Proud Of Me.......Well I Told Him I HAVE A GREAT TEACHER!! YOU!
Old videos or new, I truly enjoy these videos! I still refer back to your old videos for varieties! Thank you! Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I appreciate it.
Love this content for the chilly northern gardeners
You can grow leeks all winter in Vermont. These alliums are no joke!
@@TheMillennialGardener Vermont's like the tropics to us frosty Mainers
I have some of my seedlings getting ready to go into the garden here in Ohio! I’m growing Collards, mustard, kale, Brussels Sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces, garlic, & direct seeded carrots! Your channel is one of my faves! I love the Dale moments at the end too!
You should definitely write a book! Lots of charts and all the good info you share. I'd love to have it all at my fingertips. LOVE your channel!
My friend made an amazing leek soup and now I want to plant some. Thank you for the tips!
Leeks go great in almost anything and can be used like a mild onion. Anything chopped white onions go in, leeks can substitute.
I'm in Arizona and I've had many crops fail in Summer and Winter, but one thing that grows amazingly well for me all Winter long is kale. I grow more than I can eat every year.
I love sweet carrots. I'll be trying them this winter
I just moved kale from garden to bags & they are not doing as well. I’m kinda sad.
@@SilverCreekHomestead I think you still have time to try again, depending on where you are. I did nothing special to mine, except good soil and lots of sun in the winter.
@@deltatango5765 I think I do too! Might be on my agenda this evening depending on what we can get done early today! Thanks for encouragement!
OMG you are the FREAKIN MAN!!! I’m so excited to keep growing in the winter now! Thank you so much for including so much info for colder climates, it’s helps a lot especially for a new grower 😊
Look up the Persephone period for your area. That's the time when you will get less than 10 hours of sunlight per day. Your veggies need to be mature by that date, as they will have little or no growth during that period. If mature, they will keep outside, like you have an outdoor refrigerator!
You and Dale have a great partnership, and your channel is so organized, I watch the whole thing and then have to say I love your notes and shortcuts to review. Thank you!
Collards are amazing in cold. In fact, my family in lower GA say theyre not good til there is a frost. I have never covered them and they are great
Yes, frost sweetens them up.
Thank you for advice in your videos. You and several others have improved my Ohio gardening. I can use and/or adapt your suggestions despite zone differences. Thanks for your dedication to youtube. Love the adventures with Dale.
Thankyou for posting this video this is exactly I was looking for.
Amen to soups and stews!!! So excited to know I can grow garlic so easily, and thanks for the reminder on the carrots!!
Garlic is easy as long as it gets enough chill hours and you mulch it well.
Love these plants,thanks.Gonna try Leeks for the first time.
Nice, well explained. 👍
Thank you! 😊 Working on clearing out some of my summer beds to plant some these now.
my grandparents always left the carrots in the soil til they used them over the winter. It works in wv/southern ohio not so sure about where youre at though. It gets really cold here in the winters. They love growing there collards during the winter too! I threw some cold hardy lettuce out in late september and it grew over the winter all the way til june as well!
Very helpful to save on grocery bill!
Absolutely. I've reduced my grocery bills quite a lot doing this.
Great video, thank you for all the info. Dale is such a nice doggie
I didn’t know that about carrots! Thanks for the info! And thanks for timestamping each vegetable so I can skip through because of lack of time watching the entire video… thumbs up from GA Zone 8b
That was a great video, and that red leaf lettuce made me hungry, even after dinner!
As always you give us great info. ❤love Dale
Man I'm missing my garden! Thanks for the vid, just want I need to see while I'm away to get me pumped for when I get back.
Glad I could help motivate!
Absolutely love this video
You in the south of course we grow them collards 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 I live in Kansas now about to try to grow them here grew them when I lived in Mississippi in the 90’s and watermelon it’s been hard here in Kansas but I’m tryna get it down good video
Great video like always! Harvested my first crop of garlic this year. It was very rewarding. I'm thinking these will be too! I'm going for the leeks and carrots. Thank you!
Wonderful video! I'm looking forward to seeing a video on how you grow cilantro in the fall/winter.
Why does nobody hardly ever mention Parsnips? I live in Minnesota and plant them in late summer & leave them in the ground for the following spring. Yumm!
That sounds amazing. I love parsnips. Do you have a favorite variety?
@@PennyGrace0321 Harris Model is delish
@@CamoJan Thanks!
RE: Bunching Onions. I love Garlic Chives. I'm in 8b N of Houston. If we get a 20 degree day they will just freeze the tops and pop back up in the spring. I have a big bunch in my garden that has been there for 18 years.
Thanks for showing temperature equivalent in Celsius.
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I truly enjoyed this video. I want to have a garden all 4 seasons and this is great advice
It’s the best! Gardening in fall and winter is my favorite in many ways.
Good advice. Looking at doing it this year. Thanks for the video.
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Love your channel. I'm in zone 5b and appreciate the info for my zone, thanks!
You should be able to grow these if you start them now. They are very cold hardy when they're approaching maturity.
Awesome list of recommendations thank you! Zone 5🇨🇦
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This is a great video who want to keep gardening throughout the winter season. I was only successful with hardback garlics at my zone 6b. Yes, the evergreen long white bunching onions are so hardy even at my climate. My pops perked up when Dale barked. LOL😂 I'm glad he finally got his peaceful day without the thunder. Poor thing🥲 Thanks for sharing your video.
We had a good stretch of days without thunder. We did get some last night, but it passed us by. More dry weather is on tap for the next 2-3 days, which is great, because we got 17 inches of rain from Debby and desperately need to dry out.
My cat used to blame ME for thunderstorms. He thought I was God! Ha!
I live in Wisconsin and my mature collard lived all winter out in the open. It is still alive. It did bolt, but still has edible leaves.
Thank you so much. Now I know why my last fall Garlic fell over. Zone 6b. We had an extra mild winter. We mulched heavy but I did not water them after they grew 4 inches. One clove on each is better than nothing. Looking forward to carrots and onions through out winter depending on weather. >>>>> I should know better. We started onion seeds last spring.
... I was going to just plant onion seeds outside. Will start seeds indoors. Thank you Tony.
Leeks are wonderful.
Good catch, Dale!
Haven’t tried to grow garlic in zone 8A Tony! I’ve had success with kale, chards, bok choy and carrots fall into winter. TFS and hugs to Dale 😊
No Beets? I'm zone 6b. They and carrots are up under mulch.
Try Elephant Garlic. It`s prolific.
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lol I’m the only one that ears them. My boys says it literally is eating dirt 😝
I grow hardneck garlic here in 8b. It's easy. I store my cloves in a paper bag in the fridge for 4-6 weeks before I plant them. I got *big* bulbs this year. They're great.
@@TheMillennialGardenerwhere do I buy the garlic or can I just buy a clove of garlic at the grocery store and put it in the ground?
Last winter here in Boston multiple Kale plants successfully overwintered with no frost protection.
Btw, if my giant pumpkin makes it to a weigh off this fall Dale is coming too, at least on a T-shirt from your merchandise store.
That's really solid. Kale here in Zone 8 is bulletproof, and I've heard people in Zone 6/7 being able to overwinter where the leaves take damage, but the stems survive and the leaves grow back once winter lets go.
I'm in zone 9a, NW FL. My summer harvest is almost nothing and I blame the high temps. Am looking forward to plant those 5 winter crops. Thanks for the info and wish me luck!
If you install shade cloth in May, the heat won't be as much of an issue any you'll get solid harvests all summer: ruclips.net/video/SbWcCxV7OOE/видео.htmlsi=i3Hv2bAF7Lprd2lw
Tatsoi is delicious!!! It's an awesome spinach replacement
It just isn’t a “typical” green and most will never grow it, so I’m trying to be generic for the widest audience possible with these types of videos.
@TheMillennialGardener totally get it. I came across tatsoi on accident, got free from our library. And it did so well for me I love it now! 🤣
I've been growing a variety of Asian greens this year including komatsuna, bokchoy, and mizuna. Tatsoi is one I didn't know about, so thank you for mentioning it!
This is so encouraging, thank you!! I am off to plant some seeds! :)
You’re welcome! Glad to hear it!
Thank you for sharing where you garden early in your vid!!! I listen and learn, but have to adapt for northern Michigan...
And you even gave northern advice! Thanks!!!
Thank you! Mad Love bruv!❤❤
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
You had me at “thrive on neglect!” 😂
I lived in Onslow for a little while. Hurricane Florence took care of my first garden. Now I’m in VA with better success this time
I've got my collard seeds ordered. I'm trying the Yellow Cabbage Collard and the Alabama Blue Collard this year. Only a few of my carrots from the spring made it. But I think I'll try some again for the fall and also some bunching onions.
The collards sound good! For carrots, you need to overseed the heck out of them. Germination is poor. Check out my carrot germination trick here: ruclips.net/video/Rr-Pr6HlAnU/видео.htmlsi=LTmtl5gMIYueJDy1
@@TheMillennialGardener Oh yeah, I watched all the carrot videos back last winter when I was planning stuff. But the sudden heat snap in spring did most of them in. Prior to that they looked good. Not giving up though and maybe fall/winter is the better time here. Just trying to figure out my growing area.
Great info
Glad it was helpful!
Hi! Thanks for awesome videos! I have been enjoying many of your videos. I wondered if you let your raised bed or plot rest for rotations. If you do, could you make a video about tips? I have four 4 x4 raised bed, and I don’t know if I should plant fully in four all the time or let at least one box to rest and not planting in it to rejuvenate the raised garden box.
Thanks! I love growing carrots, spinach, lettuces, Swiss chard, and broccoli over the winter here in Zone 9B.
I do here in 8b as well. It is nice to not have to irrigate much or deal with pests.
What month and variety @lindag9975 ? I have failed in the past :). Thank you !
Awesome clip.
I was hoping my collards would bolt in spring, but they didn't. I'm in Florida in zone 10a.
Thanks for sharing ❤❤
You're welcome!
I noticed in an old fig tree video of yours that your Celeste tree has leaves exactly like my Brown Turkey did when it was younger (stubby 3 lobed leaves...now the leaves look more like Chicago Hardy or Smith) and my Celeste trees have very different leaves from yours: some are somewhat triangular "shield" shapes with jagged edges and others are very long narrow fingered leaves on the same plant. I harvested only one "Brown Turkey" fig so far and it was the sweetest fig I`ve ever tasted and had the flavor of kinda like slightly brown unbleached sugar. So there`s no telling what I have. I ordered them from nurseries in Florida and California. They sure are growing fast!
Great video! It has been a tough season for me with deer and ground hogs destroying most things, but I'm ready to install a deer net and hopefully we can start again with a fall and winter garden
Can you install a fence? To me, a fence around a garden is as important as the soil itself.
@@TheMillennialGardener we are considering our options right now - its definitely going to be a struggle.
Don't under estimate the cold hardiness of collards. I always grow them every year, including the year of that polar vortex a few years back. We got down to -10 for a week. The collards did just fine. Only minimal tip damage. Same for red russian kale and swiss chard. Even snapdragons pulled through just fine.
I like being conservative with these videos. I don't want to tell a person to expect hardness to below 0 temps, then have them be disappointed. I give reasonable temperature guidance in hopes that people will plan for it and have even better success. The last thing I want to do is tell someone their collards will take -10F, then they don't protect them and they get destroyed and they lose their harvest. I can vouch for collard hardiness in the teens, but I don't want to tell folks to expect miracles with a leafy green. I'd rather them have their expectations exceeded, if that makes sense.
thank you ..
That Red Lettuce you have planted is beautiful, what variety is it?
Learned so much from you - But .... when I use leeks, I use the "white" root part for most recipes. The green can be used in stock etc. So check out recipes for the white part.
That is exactly what I do. I mostly use the white part, but I like the green, too. I love growing leeks!
This year will be my first fall garden and I'm stoked, thanks to you! I've got carrots just breaking through and cabbage and lettuce planted in starter trays that I plan to put out when it cools down in my ATL garden. I did do garlic last year and got one really great braided rope to hang behind my stove, adorable and nummy! I'm only a little concerned about my garden not getting much sun as the season ends though. This will be interesting!!
AWESOME! You are going to LOVE fall gardening, especially in Atlanta. It's a million times better than summer gardening. The pests go away, you don't have to water as much, the sweating stops, etc. And it gets easier as the season progresses instead of harder (like summer). It's just great.
Thank you so much I was just wondering what I could plant in some empty spots
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Hey from Statesville NC thanks for info
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Hey Anthony! what’s up from hot sunny Puerto Rico! I’ve been following for a while and I think I can recommend a type of celery for you. I mean if I grew it here I bet you can in NC! I don’t know if you already tried it but I’m impressed. The name is Tango celery from johnnys, code 647G. I grow it in full shade because the sun is just too hot. Hasn’t bolted, growing strong! It took a beating 2 days without water and sprung back again real quick. You got me started with my garden 4 years ago, I can grow almost anything now thanks to your help… even celery.
Thank you! I never planted anything for winter, but now I think I may try planting! Any advice for watering and fertilizing through the winter with these veggies you recommended growing?
Winter gardening is a lot easier. The evaporation rate is generally low (unless you live in South Florida where it's warm and has a dry season). You often have to water very little, because it rains more than the weak sun can evaporate the soil. You just have to stick your finger in the soil 2 inches to check if it's dry. If it is, water. Things grow slowly in winter, so usually they only need compost and maybe a little bit of a granular organic fertilizer.
Hey,
Question, where did you get the plant covers that are behind you? I need some!! Thanks 😊
Sorrel is also used in flower gardening though I know your focus is vegetables. Thanks
Do you refrigerate your garlic before planting? I am in Burlington North Carolina and I raise soft-neck. But I refrigerate it for a month or so before planting in October. The seed company sends it to me in September. I love Cosmic Purple Carrots planted for all winter. I do grow collards, swiss chard, and several varieties of kale all winter. Cut and come again! My pit bull Layla says hi to Dale!
I used to live in Scotland County and I do miss that climate.
It is rough here on the immediate coast with the seasonal rain, but luckily, it is letting up. We have a mostly dry week ahead and a few nights with lows in the 60’s 🤯
Enjoying this false fall here! I’m hoping to find some garlic & ginger to plant soon! I’m ENC, too, but I was thinking they needed to go in a pot so they could go in greenhouse in winter. No?
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I’m so ready for fall but here in East TX our days are heat index of 115 But I’ll be ready
Mr.Dale I have a question for you about cantaloupes. I live in Decatur Alabama and this was the first time I tried growing cantaloupe. I have 35 beautiful healthy plants but they are all male's. I bought two packages is that normal and does it happen alot??????
I grew a couple this summer from the grocery store cantalope I got last summer (its seeds). My first two small ones got overripe, I wasn't sure when to harvest, but I'm about to harvest two more this week. They're small (in growbags) but next year I'm going to put them on the trellis in my main garden. They did well and no bugs at all!
How long have they been doing that? Mine always start with all male flowers then get a few female flowers. I'd say the longest I've seen them go like that is about 2.5 weeks.
Cantaloupes have both male and female flowers. Are you saying your cantaloupes are only producing male flowers and no female flowers? Typically, cucurbits produce male flowers heavily at first, because male flowers take less energy for a young plant to make, and the pollen has to come first and you just have to be patient. If your vines are large and have never produced a female flower, that indicates to me environmental stress. Maybe it's too hot, too sunny, too dry, too wet, they aren't getting the nutrients they need, etc. If you are getting brutalized by heat and drought, you may need to irrigate them well, feed them well and give them some shade cloth.
My watermelon plants stopped producing female flowers all July. Last week, we had a stretch of 5 days in the mid-80's and it fell into the 60's at night, and POOF, suddenly, they produced a couple female flowers. My guess is it's just too hot and they need shade cloth or a cold front.
Yes all the vines have only male flowers. They have just started for the past three weeks blooming. And also for the last couple of weeks here in Decatur Alabama it was very hot with the heat index from 106 to 110.,
I discovered the same thing with collards and the winter. I have two small containers that were my first attempt at collards, and I did nothing with them - even allowed them to go to seed and wilt back, and they survived the winter and regrew. After observing that, I planted a new set in 5 gallon buckets, and will watch how things go this winter. (I'm in the 8A zone of N.C., about 250 miles northwest of MG.)
They grow very easily. They're delicious, you'll love them if you use them.
One NC note, be aware of insect pressure, those mature summer insects are very quick compared to Spring so consider a preemptive or be prepared for quick responses, it will save some frustration.
Do you need to water them in the hoop house in the freezing cold winter?
Greetings from FL, zone 10a. I've learned so much from your videos, thank you! I do have a question. As I'm watching here I notice you have tunnel frames over your beds, even under the shade cloth. What are those used for? Per your guidance, I did put 40% shade cloth over my container garden. Now I'm wondering if I need tunnels as well. Thank you! Garden on! :-)
Shade cloth, insect netting, frost cloth. It depends on the season. In #5, I specifically show the tunnels and what they are for.
Thank you 😊
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Can you do an herb planting video please? I want to know when I can plant fall cilantro in zone 8a?
And should I start in seed trays or do they do best sown direct?
I have a ton of videos organized by month: www.youtube.com/@TheMillennialGardener/search?query=plant%20in
Cilantro does best direct sown, but it needs cold soil. If your soil isn't cold, you'll need to start it indoors, possibly in the refrigerator.
Hey Dale you are a good boy! Gibbs the pug said hi
Dale says hello back 🐶
Zone 8b in the Pacific Northwest is very different from Zone 8b elsewhere. What kind of onions and leaks do I get? Cold-hardy? Heat-resistant? Both?
I planted collards last fall in 9b we ate collards all summer and still had collards last night. I do have them in containers under a tree. I guess I will let them keep going.
How big are your containers?
Great video, I am in here in zone 8b should i move the trays inside once they germinate because of the heat?
If you are talking about the crops specifically mentioned in this video, the collards *definitely* need to go indoors to prevent bolting. Carrots must be direct-sown. You cannot transplant them, so it is what it is with carrots. They should be OK being direct sown in 8b now. Bunching onions and leeks can be started in shade outdoors under your rain gutters right now and they'll be fine as long as they're not exposed to rain. Heavy rain can dislodge the seeds. If you don't have a protected location, start your leeks and bunching onions indoors and carry them outside in a protected location when they germinate. Garlic, it's way too early to plant. I store my garlic in the fridge for 4-6 weeks, then plant them around November 1 in 8b here.
Thank you! I feel like garlic should come with a "harvest time" warning. I was under the impression that when my tomatoes were ready to go outside in spring (March/April in my 7b zone), my garlic would be done... nope. I ended up pulling my garlic early to make room in my garden for summer veggies that needed to go out 2 months before my garlic should have been pulled. Won't make that mistake this year!
Oh wow! I'm in zone 7b and we can not put out tomatoes until the end of April! Ours do better when we wait until the first of May! Learned my lesson on stunted tomatoes and peppers!!
@@sassyherbgardener7154 I live in a swampy area of Southern VA. I have a pretty intense microclimate. I can put out my potatoes March 15th and my tomatoes and squash under frost protection. My garden is at the top of a small hill and so the moisture and cold air sinks down to the lower lying areas; which, in turn allows me to get a jump on my summer crops.. as a trade off I can't plant any Brassicas in the spring. Interestingly, okra will get stunted. I'm always trying to get my okra going before they're ready. Did it again this year and my okra are only 3 feet tall in September. But my tomatoes are still producing!
Gr8 vid! What's happening behind you with bricks/black tarp?
Do you mean the dark green tarps over my garden beds? Those beds are resting. They were amended with compost and they're sitting under a tarp to prevent any weed seeds from germinating or landing in my beds. They are where I will put fall crops.
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