Love my fall garden. Cilantro does much better in the fall. Much slower to bolt. Everything tastes better. Some veggies taste better after the first frost, especially kale and the other brassicas. We wouldn't have chow chow if it weren't for green fall tomatoes. Root the suckers that you prune off of your mature tomato plants. They produce much faster than those from seed.
Fall and Winter Garden is my favorite! Because I love leafy greens! I can't grow them it's too hot here in the summer. To go outside in the nice cool weather and pick some kale and different kinds of salad greens makes me very happy 😊.
I already have a "fall garden" for when my legs cramp up and I collapse after contorting myself into a myriad of yoga positions while pulling weeds and trying not to step on my plants. Raised beds; maybe next year I'll finally get around to making them.
Jess, thanks for the good laugh! You brightened my morning. I'm getting pretty old so I totally understand. Am growing in 5 gallon buckets and 7 gallon fabric pots. Much easier.
I just added two 40 gallon plastic containers for fall gardening. Did not want to buy the redwood and remove lawn and re-route irrigation . So I painted these planters green and just set them on my concrete patio where I can hand water. Added garden soil and compost and today I planted transplants of Habanero, Spinach, Onion and Radish. I have 12 more radish seedlings set out to start for next months plantings. Want to get some other lettuce too. Enjoying your videos Scott.
I've been potting up the suckers I remove from my indeterminate beefsteak tomato plants. Once I move them up to five gallon buckets, I'll put them in my little greenhouse for an extended Fall harvest. If I get fruit that doesn't ripen by the first frost, well, I'll be eating a lot of fried green tomatoes in October and November. LOL. Probably pickling some as well. The plants are not only free, but would normally just get thrown out into the compost pile, so why not? Some are over a foot tall already. :-D
I love this... But from the previous video, calculating back 12-15 weeks puts me at the same date as my spring plantings ...!!! I have a very short growing season, about 173 days and 80-95 without frost. It’s good to know I can plant quick to mature, frost-tolerant crops in July-August and harvest in late September, early October.
Thank You for pushing me off the fence. I am contemplating planting a fall garden ,but was not sure since I am in a new area I am not familiar with. But as they say " Nothing ventured Nothing gained". I guess I will never learn unless I do it.
Hi Scott, thanks for reminding all of us that now is the time to plan, and for some of the plants like broccoli, because it takes quite a while to produce heads, actually plant right now. In your next video, you might want to include that one option for starting some of these plants is to go back to the grow room and grow under lights. The issue is, right now, it's simply too hot for some of these crops to germinate well and grow, particularly the greens like spinach and lettuce, as well as brassicas. But if you start them under lights in a cooler area, say your basement, and grow them for a month or 6 weeks, by early September in many areas it will have cooled down a bit. Also, if you start brassicas now they will be decimated by cabbage worms. But by early to mid September, that is less of a problem, as you mention. Just some thoughts. Thanks again!
We had excellent germination of brassicas in the past few weeks, we overplanted in garden beds next to a fence to the west, and everything grew nicely together, shading the ground. Now we just have to keep trimming the overlaps, but we just call it harvesting~
I had started a couple of broccoli plants and they were doing well- the next day all the leaves were chewed off- but I didn't see any beetles or snails anywhere close to them.
Thank you Gardener Scott. My HOA won't let me quit my garden, and yes, I live in the middle of nowhere and have a frickin' HOA. I definitely want a fall garden but I don't know what I'm growing. I'm thinking Swiss chard, kale and a few other things mainly because summers in Switzerland are comparable to my winters here. I'm looking forward to your video on what to plant.
Here in NZ global warming is lengthening the summer growing season and making it a more stressful time for the plants with an intensification of drought conditions and higher temperatures. This makes an Autumn garden even more practical. So thanks for the reminder and, as usual, great information. This year I will plant in Spring with the autumn garden with all its possibilities in mind. I wont try to cram everything in at once and do more succession planting. A year or so ago I planted a couple of tomato plants in December, several months after the others went in during Spring. I had masses of tomatoes all through summer and Autumn. I had to cover them with mesh though because of the psyllid being very present in the heat.
Don't forget a Spring garden! Here in Massachusetts lots of things will overwinter like lettuce and spinach and be growing in February and March, and you can put many different seeds in the ground and get them to germinate in February or March also! Not to mention the perennials like dandelion and chive and violet and other things that are ready to eat very very early in the year. 🌱
Very good timing for me to see this. I was just getting ready to re-plant my salad garden, and was going to hold off on some things, I will go ahead and replant my Kohlrabi that went directly to seed.
Ive never planted a Fall garden and I plan to prepare for it next week, and also put in a raised bed. I’m hoping to find romaine, carrot, n kale seeds at the store. Beets😝yuk. Im not sure what else there is. I do hope you plan to show us how you start your seeds asap. Gee, idk how easy it will be to start seeds bc the heat index has been over 100 for almost 2wks and also in the future forecast.
I think a fall garden sounds good. That will give me something to think about this winter for next year. I already had to move a very large garden for the well driller. Water table way too low, I've been collecting rainwater for the gardens. Gardener Scott, I sent you an email about my pepper problem, I hope it went through.
I have a plan of starting lettuce and radishes soon, Im just waiting for the 2 lettuce plants I let go to seed actually open up a bit to get the seed. I will plant the radishes when the onions that are in the bed that replaced the lettuce and earlier radishes I harvested are ready. About a week ago I planted bush green beans in a bed that I emptied to get another bed of them going. I have three 20 gallon tubs I an going to harvest potatoes from, not sure whats going in them.
I was watching people my age 61, plant potatoes in totes and bins. So I told my hubby, let's try that. Better than all that digging in the ground. So we used totes, bins, tires what ever we had around here. And planted 27 bins, etc. So far we have harvested 11 of them and have gotten 60 pounds of really nice potatoes. So far 22 pounds of gold rush. 6 pounds of red. 7 pounds of white. And 25 pounds of Yukons. Not bad. And dumping them in a wheelbarrow is alot easier than all that digging and bending. We are replanting them again after putting some chicken poo compost back in the totes. So we will have a fall harvest too. I plan on canning most of them.
@@loritanner4478 Thats a good harvest. This is my first time growing potatoes. I did a little trade with the guy next door, his extra seed potatoes for my extra onion sets. I dont think I will be able to lift the totes to dump them with my back. I think I will try and put in a zucchini or two and some carrots when I empty them some time in the next two weeks.
@@j.b.6855 Dump the potatoes onto a tarp, separate out everything, and put the dirt back into the bags. Pretty much dump, push things around and then scrape the leavings back into the bags. I would not try and lift a 20 gallon tub of anything by myself.
@@MongoTheMad I would, but they are out of my ability to even lift them up enough to knock them over. I have back problems and I have had two surgeries. I have a lifting limit half of what they weigh. It may be a little more work, but I will get them emptied with a garden fork.
You're in the Springs, right? I'm down in Security. We avoid most winter storms. Always worse up north. Crazy how 20 miles makes a difference. I need to get Brussels going. I would like a Turkey Day harvest of them. Honestly, with our weather over the last few years, you could grow well into December and January with some green house tunnles. I want to try and beat winter with some more cold tolerant crops. Thanks for all your info.
I always grow a fall garden but one thing that always gives me trouble is getting lettuce to germinate in the summer. I know you have different experience from your comments in the video but my lettuce germinates in just a few days in March and April but sometimes does not germinate at all in the summer when the soil is very hot.
I have a summer garden. My lettuce (leaves that you eat) are so thin... Not thick and green:/ It has also gotten taller & has grown this big stalk - that has grown more heads of thin lettuce off of it. New to gardening... Help! LoL I also had an aphid outbreak... Ugh! Thanks Gardener Scott☺
If I'm doing bucket gardening and the root system takes up the whole container after the plant matures is the soil reusable at all? or should i just get more potting mix or something?
I'm planning a video about collecting garlic seeds for planting. I normally cut them off and use them. I have other videos that show what I do with scapes.
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Scott, as you can see from the comments, you are really inspiring people to plant and grow. You are sharing a life skill that is so important. Thanks!
I buy a bunch of those seed on sale in the late summer and fall to save for spring because they cost less.
Love my fall garden. Cilantro does much better in the fall. Much slower to bolt. Everything tastes better. Some veggies taste better after the first frost, especially kale and the other brassicas. We wouldn't have chow chow if it weren't for green fall tomatoes.
Root the suckers that you prune off of your mature tomato plants. They produce much faster than those from seed.
Fall and Winter Garden is my favorite! Because I love leafy greens! I can't grow them it's too hot here in the summer.
To go outside in the nice cool weather and pick some kale and different kinds of salad greens makes me very happy 😊.
I already have a "fall garden" for when my legs cramp up and I collapse after contorting myself into a myriad of yoga positions while pulling weeds and trying not to step on my plants. Raised beds; maybe next year I'll finally get around to making them.
Jess, thanks for the good laugh! You brightened my morning. I'm getting pretty old so I totally understand. Am growing in 5 gallon buckets and 7 gallon fabric pots. Much easier.
@@maryfeist8080 What are fabric pots and where do you get them?
Legend. 🤣
Jess. Check out Charles Dowding. No Dig gardener extraordinaire. Check out how much weeding he does....or doesn't do.
Aww this made me laugh, I can relate haha
I got 12 tomato plants now thanks to you! There growing healthy and cant wait to start harvesting tomato's from them! Thanks for all the help!
Here in South Florida the fall and winter gardens are our best lol.
thank you Scott!
I've only got 2 potato plants and an aloe vera working. the rest? well dont wanna talk about it lol
This vid is very positive and encouraging. Thank you for your gardening enthusiasm. Learned alot.
Collards taste better after the first frost. Man I just made myself hungry. Lol
Snap peas, Pak Choy, broccoli, carrots, and a few more. Very blessed to have a good Fall/Winter season.
Thank you! I will try spinach again. It grew small and quickly got flowers. Could hardly harvest any.
I just added two 40 gallon plastic containers for fall gardening. Did not want to buy the redwood and remove lawn and re-route irrigation . So I painted these planters green and just set them on my concrete patio where I can hand water. Added garden soil and compost and today I planted transplants of Habanero, Spinach, Onion and Radish. I have 12 more radish seedlings set out to start for next months plantings. Want to get some other lettuce too. Enjoying your videos Scott.
I've been potting up the suckers I remove from my indeterminate beefsteak tomato plants. Once I move them up to five gallon buckets, I'll put them in my little greenhouse for an extended Fall harvest. If I get fruit that doesn't ripen by the first frost, well, I'll be eating a lot of fried green tomatoes in October and November. LOL. Probably pickling some as well. The plants are not only free, but would normally just get thrown out into the compost pile, so why not? Some are over a foot tall already. :-D
I love this... But from the previous video, calculating back 12-15 weeks puts me at the same date as my spring plantings ...!!!
I have a very short growing season, about 173 days and 80-95 without frost. It’s good to know I can plant quick to mature, frost-tolerant crops in July-August and harvest in late September, early October.
My city's average growing season is 114 days
Got some perpetual spinach, arugula, lettuce, turnips, radish n swedes for fall
Nice information friend
Thank You for pushing me off the fence. I am contemplating planting a fall garden ,but was not sure since I am in a new area I am not familiar with. But as they say " Nothing ventured Nothing gained". I guess I will never learn unless I do it.
Something ate the seed potatoes last night, so now we replanted the garden bed with a few things we want to see more of in the garden.
Hi Scott, thanks for reminding all of us that now is the time to plan, and for some of the plants like broccoli, because it takes quite a while to produce heads, actually plant right now. In your next video, you might want to include that one option for starting some of these plants is to go back to the grow room and grow under lights. The issue is, right now, it's simply too hot for some of these crops to germinate well and grow, particularly the greens like spinach and lettuce, as well as brassicas. But if you start them under lights in a cooler area, say your basement, and grow them for a month or 6 weeks, by early September in many areas it will have cooled down a bit. Also, if you start brassicas now they will be decimated by cabbage worms. But by early to mid September, that is less of a problem, as you mention. Just some thoughts. Thanks again!
Thanks, Jeff. That's exactly what I'm planning for the next video in this series.
We had excellent germination of brassicas in the past few weeks, we overplanted in garden beds next to a fence to the west, and everything grew nicely together, shading the ground. Now we just have to keep trimming the overlaps, but we just call it harvesting~
I had started a couple of broccoli plants and they were doing well- the next day all the leaves were chewed off- but I didn't see any beetles or snails anywhere close to them.
Connecticut weather is so weird but I'll keep planting leafy greens until fall
Thank you Gardener Scott. My HOA won't let me quit my garden, and yes, I live in the middle of nowhere and have a frickin' HOA. I definitely want a fall garden but I don't know what I'm growing. I'm thinking Swiss chard, kale and a few other things mainly because summers in Switzerland are comparable to my winters here. I'm looking forward to your video on what to plant.
I ordered seeds for my fall garden this morning!
Where did you buy your seeds? I try to order but it seems like every seeds companie are out of seed!😩
@@amerasiann4645 Hoss Tools. I found a lot out of stock at my go to places also.
@@amerasiann4645 Amazon, 35 variety vegetable seed packs, 24.99 (Amazon's choice). I had good results.
Dark Age Growing is a great new seed company too. Smaller selection than most but the price is right, @Tammy Nguyen
Here in NZ global warming is lengthening the summer growing season and making it a more stressful time for the plants with an intensification of drought conditions and higher temperatures. This makes an Autumn garden even more practical. So thanks for the reminder and, as usual, great information. This year I will plant in Spring with the autumn garden with all its possibilities in mind. I wont try to cram everything in at once and do more succession planting. A year or so ago I planted a couple of tomato plants in December, several months after the others went in during Spring. I had masses of tomatoes all through summer and Autumn. I had to cover them with mesh though because of the psyllid being very present in the heat.
Don't forget a Spring garden! Here in Massachusetts lots of things will overwinter like lettuce and spinach and be growing in February and March, and you can put many different seeds in the ground and get them to germinate in February or March also! Not to mention the perennials like dandelion and chive and violet and other things that are ready to eat very very early in the year. 🌱
Good suggestion. I was harvesting spinach and chives early this year; it overwintered great.
Very good timing for me to see this. I was just getting ready to re-plant my salad garden, and was going to hold off on some things, I will go ahead and replant my Kohlrabi that went directly to seed.
Thank you for this video I was looking to getting into fall gardening in Battle ground WA
Thanks for the knowledge as I’ve only been growing for about a year and a half and not grown in the fall yet.
My goal is to have a full garden this winter! I cant wait to have success with my lettuce, cilantro, spinach, peas and arugula.
I’m getting my allotment plot just in time to start my fall garden, lots of work ahead and I can’t wait 😊
Ive never planted a Fall garden and I plan to prepare for it next week, and also put in a raised bed. I’m hoping to find romaine, carrot, n kale seeds at the store. Beets😝yuk. Im not sure what else there is. I do hope you plan to show us how you start your seeds asap. Gee, idk how easy it will be to start seeds bc the heat index has been over 100 for almost 2wks and also in the future forecast.
Laughing. Yuk. The best part of beets are the greens. They are very tasty and not bitter like other greens. Also pickled beets are really good.
I love what you teach... it's also gives me a chance to get more produce
Bob Cooney
Salt Lake City Utah
Rutabaga and parsnips, we never harvest before a hard frost or two
I think a fall garden sounds good. That will give me something to think about this winter for next year. I already had to move a very large garden for the well driller. Water table way too low, I've been collecting rainwater for the gardens.
Gardener Scott, I sent you an email about my pepper problem, I hope it went through.
I started my seeds indoors on the 4th :)
I have a plan of starting lettuce and radishes soon, Im just waiting for the 2 lettuce plants I let go to seed actually open up a bit to get the seed. I will plant the radishes when the onions that are in the bed that replaced the lettuce and earlier radishes I harvested are ready. About a week ago I planted bush green beans in a bed that I emptied to get another bed of them going. I have three 20 gallon tubs I an going to harvest potatoes from, not sure whats going in them.
I was watching people my age 61, plant potatoes in totes and bins. So I told my hubby, let's try that. Better than all that digging in the ground. So we used totes, bins, tires what ever we had around here. And planted 27 bins, etc. So far we have harvested 11 of them and have gotten 60 pounds of really nice potatoes. So far 22 pounds of gold rush. 6 pounds of red. 7 pounds of white. And 25 pounds of Yukons. Not bad. And dumping them in a wheelbarrow is alot easier than all that digging and bending. We are replanting them again after putting some chicken poo compost back in the totes. So we will have a fall harvest too. I plan on canning most of them.
@@loritanner4478 Thats a good harvest. This is my first time growing potatoes. I did a little trade with the guy next door, his extra seed potatoes for my extra onion sets. I dont think I will be able to lift the totes to dump them with my back. I think I will try and put in a zucchini or two and some carrots when I empty them some time in the next two weeks.
@@j.b.6855 Dump the potatoes onto a tarp, separate out everything, and put the dirt back into the bags. Pretty much dump, push things around and then scrape the leavings back into the bags. I would not try and lift a 20 gallon tub of anything by myself.
@@MongoTheMad I would, but they are out of my ability to even lift them up enough to knock them over. I have back problems and I have had two surgeries. I have a lifting limit half of what they weigh. It may be a little more work, but I will get them emptied with a garden fork.
Excited for the next video! Thanks for all your advice!!
You're in the Springs, right? I'm down in Security. We avoid most winter storms. Always worse up north. Crazy how 20 miles makes a difference. I need to get Brussels going. I would like a Turkey Day harvest of them. Honestly, with our weather over the last few years, you could grow well into December and January with some green house tunnles. I want to try and beat winter with some more cold tolerant crops. Thanks for all your info.
Almost all Spring cool season crops can be re-planted after the heat breaks and before the first hard frost.
I always grow a fall garden but one thing that always gives me trouble is getting lettuce to germinate in the summer. I know you have different experience from your comments in the video but my lettuce germinates in just a few days in March and April but sometimes does not germinate at all in the summer when the soil is very hot.
As I'll discuss in the next video, you can avoid that problem by starting lettuce indoors and waiting until the nights begin to cool.
Ty for your teachings.
I just want to say"thanx". b@peace, Jose
I am a Gardener too
Thank you so much!!
I have a summer garden. My lettuce (leaves that you eat) are so thin... Not thick and green:/
It has also gotten taller & has grown this big stalk - that has grown more heads of thin lettuce off of it.
New to gardening... Help! LoL
I also had an aphid outbreak... Ugh!
Thanks Gardener Scott☺
What camera and mic do you use. Your quality is wonderful
Thanks. It's a Lumix G-85 camera and Fotowelt WM-100 wireless mic.
Hey I’m planning to put a cover crop. And I’m in zone 9b what cover crop would you recommend? Thanks!
There are many to choose from, but I don't grow in 9b. Check with your local Cooperative Extension office to see what they recommend.
Hey @gardenerscott, I just picked a few peppers and was wondering if I need to let them sit or refrigerate them?
Either is fine. You can refrigerate if you're not planning on eating them soon.
I'm in zone 6, I am going to pull out my early green beans from my raised bed. what can I put back in a 30"x 12ft area?
Green beans.
There are many choices. Look into root vegetables and brassicas.
Do you plant a cover crop? If so when?
I usually do in some beds in the fall.
If I'm doing bucket gardening and the root system takes up the whole container after the plant matures is the soil reusable at all? or should i just get more potting mix or something?
The soil can still be used but usually needs amending before more plants are grown in it.
how come you leave your garlic scapes on?
I'm planning a video about collecting garlic seeds for planting. I normally cut them off and use them. I have other videos that show what I do with scapes.
@@GardenerScott nice i left a couple on for the same reason. thanks for posting the videos they are really helpful and you do a great job
But in autumn there are way more slugs than in summer aren't there?
I haven't seen a difference.
@@GardenerScott great, thank you
Here there is no fall (10B).. its summer till the days get to short for anythiing to grow.
👍👍👍👌
I have been plagued by vine borers, horneorms, cutworms, and grasshoppers
Indiana weather is weird.
It would be great if I can keep the birds off my plants SMH