Good morning. I’d like to share that the national gardening association has a tool on their website where you can enter your zip code and it will give you a planting calendar for your area. It gives you the start indoor date, the direct sow date and the transplant date. I’ve had good luck with the dates they provide.
This is great advice! Click the menu, then useful tools, then vegetable planting calendar. I'm about to start my fall garden and will be referencing this
Thank you for this great video! I've been a little discouraged this year. Some things have grown better than in the past, but it seems like where there is one win, there are two failures. It's nice to know I'm not alone in the struggle, and we are all still learning!
I agree Jill, I have never had a good go at the carrots until I just left them in the ground one year and they thrived and how cool is that to go out in December and pull fresh carrots :)
Wow! This was so encouraging! I’m still basically a novice at gardening but I have been experimenting the last couple years, and now I think I’m going to add some fall gardening! I really appreciate your transparency when you talk about the details of your gardening and your decision making. In a world where everybody’s hiding their problems, this is a breath of fresh air and reality that I really love! Blessings! 🤝🦋☺️
You've inspired me to do a small fall garden in my outdoor raised beds. I'm in zone 4B or so. I will need to water by hand as we will put our hose away for the season once we are hitting freezing temps...
Thanks Jill, that really hit home, I have tried to get summer crops of brassicas the way my mother did but they always end up bleached, straggly and bug eaten, I went out right after watching your video and pulled out the remaining cabbage and will start new ones for the fall season. Last summer was very wet but this summer has had a central portion of very hot and dry - adapt, adapt, adapt. Have you grown the conical German filderkraut cabbage? It's a summer variety good for coleslaw and sauerkraut but not a keeper. Everything you said rings true, reduce the preserving stress, let nature do some of the preserving for you, avoid the bug season. Thanks
Finally someone that has similar struggles as I do! :) I've been struggling for a few years now with soil health and bugs. "Easy plants" have not been easy at all. Lol thanks for sharing was isn't working.
It has been a weird season for us also. The grasshoppers are insane this year. With the disappointments of this year's garden, I'm not sure I want to have a fall garden.
Ugh for two years now squirrels have kept us from growing cukes. We even built a netted structure over the cucumbers and the dang buggers eventually got in.
Lots of helpful info! How tall to let the carrot seedlings get before thinning, plesse? And what can be done to use those pulled up? I hate wasting! Thank you!
Super informative and encouraging,! I am shocked ur in zone 5! As u have talked about ur harsh climate I thought u were in my zone of 3-4 in southwest MN....I am going to try ur recommendations for a fall garden because what I have tried before never works. I also for the first time ever have a high tunnel to garden in so hopefully I can grow carrots like u do. Not sure I can leave them in the ground but I will try some at least. Thanks for the inspiration!!
There's different kinds of carrots. Maybe stating the obvious here? We grow a summer variety for just eating fresh out of the ground during summer. And a winter variant that stores very well in sand or sawdust, rest of the year.
Good morning. I’d like to share that the national gardening association has a tool on their website where you can enter your zip code and it will give you a planting calendar for your area. It gives you the start indoor date, the direct sow date and the transplant date. I’ve had good luck with the dates they provide.
Do you have a link to share?
This is great advice! Click the menu, then useful tools, then vegetable planting calendar. I'm about to start my fall garden and will be referencing this
The Farmer's Almanac website has a similar tool as well. Very handy.
Thank you!! That is so helpful!
Thank you for this great video! I've been a little discouraged this year. Some things have grown better than in the past, but it seems like where there is one win, there are two failures. It's nice to know I'm not alone in the struggle, and we are all still learning!
Boy, Jill, you are a thinker and teacher. Very helpful for me. Regards from far north California
I agree Jill, I have never had a good go at the carrots until I just left them in the ground one year and they thrived and how cool is that to go out in December and pull fresh carrots :)
Wow! This was so encouraging! I’m still basically a novice at gardening but I have been experimenting the last couple years, and now I think I’m going to add some fall gardening! I really appreciate your transparency when you talk about the details of your gardening and your decision making. In a world where everybody’s hiding their problems, this is a breath of fresh air and reality that I really love! Blessings! 🤝🦋☺️
You've inspired me to do a small fall garden in my outdoor raised beds. I'm in zone 4B or so. I will need to water by hand as we will put our hose away for the season once we are hitting freezing temps...
Lets gooo zone 8A ❤
Awesome podcast. Awesome information. I'm planting a fall garden for the first time. I learned so much listening to you. Thank you.
Thanks Jill, that really hit home, I have tried to get summer crops of brassicas the way my mother did but they always end up bleached, straggly and bug eaten, I went out right after watching your video and pulled out the remaining cabbage and will start new ones for the fall season. Last summer was very wet but this summer has had a central portion of very hot and dry - adapt, adapt, adapt. Have you grown the conical German filderkraut cabbage? It's a summer variety good for coleslaw and sauerkraut but not a keeper.
Everything you said rings true, reduce the preserving stress, let nature do some of the preserving for you, avoid the bug season. Thanks
Finally someone that has similar struggles as I do! :) I've been struggling for a few years now with soil health and bugs. "Easy plants" have not been easy at all. Lol thanks for sharing was isn't working.
Thank you for sharing
It has been a weird season for us also. The grasshoppers are insane this year. With the disappointments of this year's garden, I'm not sure I want to have a fall garden.
Ugh for two years now squirrels have kept us from growing cukes. We even built a netted structure over the cucumbers and the dang buggers eventually got in.
Lots of helpful info! How tall to let the carrot seedlings get before thinning, plesse? And what can be done to use those pulled up? I hate wasting! Thank you!
Thanks for doing the winter garden challenge. I love learning from you.
Super informative and encouraging,! I am shocked ur in zone 5! As u have talked about ur harsh climate I thought u were in my zone of 3-4 in southwest MN....I am going to try ur recommendations for a fall garden because what I have tried before never works. I also for the first time ever have a high tunnel to garden in so hopefully I can grow carrots like u do. Not sure I can leave them in the ground but I will try some at least.
Thanks for the inspiration!!
There's different kinds of carrots. Maybe stating the obvious here? We grow a summer variety for just eating fresh out of the ground during summer. And a winter variant that stores very well in sand or sawdust, rest of the year.