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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 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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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 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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
I was waiting for you to address the heat part of the equation - especially for carrots. In August my soil is testing 90+ degrees so things that have to be direct seeded like carrots are not an option.
@@TheMillennialGardener I placed plastic for moisture bc of Zone 9a Temps over carrot seeds. Even re seeded. Do you think seeds WILL EVER germinate? Like volunteers? Otherwise, I may use the space foe something else. I've always wondered if there is no germination initially, do the seedlings come up when the conditions are right🤔
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.
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!
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 🤯
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.)
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
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.
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.,
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.
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?
Daikon-you can make Korean style pickles from them and use them for hot pot . Spinach-even zone 5b, some varieties will survive the winter and start growing in the spring again.
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 am in the same zone as you are I would like to know more about. When should I start varieties? I’m a new gardener. maybe you can just do like for our zone and so for❤
I just picked up collard green seeds from a local farm. I’m trying to decide if I should direct sow or start inside. I’m in 8b in a less humid part of Central Texas and it’s supposed to get to 106 tomorrow! We don’t expect first frost until mid to late November, but we can also still have 100 degree days into September. I had what I thought were heat tolerant pepper seedlings that I started inside and they died within 2 days of transplant. Too much heat I think. If I start the collards inside, will they survive transplanting outside?
I recommend starting them indoors. They are sensitive to bolting. Start them indoors now, and in 6 weeks, they'll be ready to plant outdoors just in time for the late September/early October cool-down. If you insist on planting outside, you *definitely* need to erect shade cloth overhead, and even then it's risky.
@@TheMillennialGardener You mentioned it as a "glorified weed that nobody really knows how to cook with". Not really an endorsement for a great vegetable. And I meant actually show the plant in the video. No big deal, good video.
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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.
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.
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.
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 😀
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!
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!
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.
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 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!
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.
Im In The Uk And I Grow All Sorts 😉🍄🔥 Gonna Give the winter veggies a go now after watching this 👌
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
You had me at “thrive on neglect!” 😂
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
Very helpful to save on grocery bill!
Absolutely. I've reduced my grocery bills quite a lot doing this.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Thanks for showing temperature equivalent in Celsius.
You're welcome!
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 ..
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!
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!
Nice, well explained. 👍
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?
Thank you! 😊 Working on clearing out some of my summer beds to plant some these now.
That was a great video, and that red leaf lettuce made me hungry, even after dinner!
Love these plants,thanks.Gonna try Leeks for the first time.
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 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
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.
Thankyou for posting this video this is exactly I was looking for.
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 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 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
That Red Lettuce you have planted is beautiful, what variety is it?
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, thank you for all the info. Dale is such a nice doggie
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.
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!
Good advice. Looking at doing it this year. Thanks for the video.
You're welcome!
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.
Wonderful video! I'm looking forward to seeing a video on how you grow cilantro in the fall/winter.
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.
As always you give us great info. ❤love Dale
Absolutely love this video
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!
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.
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?
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!
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 !
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!!!
This is so encouraging, thank you!! I am off to plant some seeds! :)
You’re welcome! Glad to hear it!
Awesome list of recommendations thank you! Zone 5🇨🇦
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!
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.
Good catch, Dale!
Thank you! Mad Love bruv!❤❤
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Sorrel is also used in flower gardening though I know your focus is vegetables. Thanks
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Thanks for watching!
Leeks are wonderful.
I was waiting for you to address the heat part of the equation - especially for carrots. In August my soil is testing 90+ degrees so things that have to be direct seeded like carrots are not an option.
You just need to put shade cloth above when you direct sow. The soil will cool dramatically. Carrots must be direct-sown.
@@TheMillennialGardener I placed plastic for moisture bc of Zone 9a Temps over carrot seeds. Even re seeded. Do you think seeds WILL EVER germinate? Like volunteers? Otherwise, I may use the space foe something else. I've always wondered if there is no germination initially, do the seedlings come up when the conditions are right🤔
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.
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!
Thank you so much I was just wondering what I could plant in some empty spots
You’re welcome!
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 🤯
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.
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.
I’m so ready for fall but here in East TX our days are heat index of 115 But I’ll be ready
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.
Hey can you do a video on how you organize you pots? Like nobody has done it and I need ideas 😅
Do you need to water them in the hoop house in the freezing cold winter?
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.,
Hey from Statesville NC thanks for info
You're welcome!
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.
I live in southern MS, 8b.
Grow collards every year. I have even had plants that have continued for 2 years beautifully.
That's excellent! Mine bolted and went to seed in May, but they lived a solid 7 months.
Do you water the garlic while it's hiding under the mulch? If so, wouldn't that make them grow in the winter anyway.....
Thanks for sharing ❤❤
You're welcome!
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?
Daikon-you can make Korean style pickles from them and use them for hot pot .
Spinach-even zone 5b, some varieties will survive the winter and start growing in the spring again.
Do you put plastic over your garden beds over the winter with these vegetables you're talking about
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.
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 🐶
I am in zone 7. Didnt put my garlic in until Jan. Still turned out nice size. Hardneck
I am in the same zone as you are I would like to know more about. When should I start varieties? I’m a new gardener. maybe you can just do like for our zone and so for❤
I would recommend watching my video from a couple weeks ago: ruclips.net/video/IZ-dnjsVzBw/видео.htmlsi=Oomwq1X743bjF8cZ
I just picked up collard green seeds from a local farm. I’m trying to decide if I should direct sow or start inside. I’m in 8b in a less humid part of Central Texas and it’s supposed to get to 106 tomorrow! We don’t expect first frost until mid to late November, but we can also still have 100 degree days into September. I had what I thought were heat tolerant pepper seedlings that I started inside and they died within 2 days of transplant. Too much heat I think. If I start the collards inside, will they survive transplanting outside?
I recommend starting them indoors. They are sensitive to bolting. Start them indoors now, and in 6 weeks, they'll be ready to plant outdoors just in time for the late September/early October cool-down. If you insist on planting outside, you *definitely* need to erect shade cloth overhead, and even then it's risky.
@@TheMillennialGardener Then I’ll start them inside under the grow lights this week. Thanks for your help!
Great video. You should have squeezed in tatsoi, though. It's bok choys cousin and is used the same way.
I specifically mention it in #5.
@@TheMillennialGardener You mentioned it as a "glorified weed that nobody really knows how to cook with". Not really an endorsement for a great vegetable. And I meant actually show the plant in the video. No big deal, good video.
New friend. Thumbs up.
Thank you 😊
You're welcome!
Sorrel catching strays lmao