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After i listened to this video i just wanted to run outside and get busy planting! You can really motivate people inti gardening
Thank you so much for that!
I just started harvesting my first tomatoes. NO WAY I'm pulling them out now! I just ate my first zucchini a couple of days ago.
We just ate our first garden tomato too. Unfortunately, our earliest projected frost date is early next week. Nothing in the forecast yet. Hopefully we'll get tomatoes for at least a month before the frost hits!
Yeah I was still picking and preserving tomatoes last year into late September but also I am on the other side of Michigan. That said, I do have seedlings of some fall crop. But my butternut squash gave me 5 big squash and suddenly has 5 more little ones on it. So I am excited to see what those will do.
@@theurbanthirdhomestead If you don't, you can pickle green tomatoes and used them as relish. I've also heard that you can seed green tomatoes, and use the seeded tomatoes as a substitute for apples in pie.
Also, if you have an early frost, you can sometimes save your plants for a while by covering them with sheets overnight.
I know! Like WTF??? You can throw a make shift greenhouse on them and it'll extend the growing season....
This dood is wasteful.
@@midnull6009 It's not necessarily wasteful to not use food, even if you have it. He has no need of more tomatoes, and the unused tomatoes will be composted, adding nutrients back to the soil, and helping to grow the next crop, and next year's crop.
Hi Luke. Whenever I start getting gardening burnout, I just watch one of your videos. It gets me right back out in the garden! Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm and gardening knowledge with us all!
***LUKE, IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO POST WHEN TO PRE-PLANT THESE SO THAT I WILL HAVE THEM READY. THANK YOU!❤
Preserving the natural root structure of the living pathways is a great tip for all serious gardeners! Bravo!!!
Do you leave the roots of weeds? I’ve been trying that but they grow back aren’t they taking nutrition away from my preferred plants?
I try really hard to support MiGardener, I'm a long-time Subscriber & have enjoyed Luke's videos even as he was a very young man. I have prayed over him, Cyndi & his children.
However, I'm forced to buy from other resources often because he's Sold Out so long, or so often. I try & try to buy from him, but even though I have "Notify Me When Available" clicked on, and I see the items on Livestream (Luke holds the items up on camera), I still can't buy it because its still sitting in Sold Out status.
I'm thrilled he's so successful, but its frustrating & I hate being forced to buy from others because I can't buy from him.
Thank you Luke for all your wisdom & love for producing our on food.
Blessings to the MiGardener's brand & people!!
Thanks for the tip about leaving the stumps and roots.
@@JD-zb4ve That is a really great idea !!! Now does it matter for the next year about rotating tomatoes crops ?
Next season, please consider posting a video of your tomato sauce canning process from harvest to end product. I’d like to watch that.
I love the fall garden. There’s so much more food to grow later in the season. I know so many people who clean out and pull their garden in September and put it to bed for the season. Not me!
Same. In TX we get to grow year round, so lucky.
The aggravation of summer gardening will do that to a person. Heat, drought, diseases, bugs and thieving animals!!!!
@@brandywineblueagree with you. I’m in NE Ohio and my garden is a full time job, or so it seems. But videos like this inspire me to carry on.
“Weather’s gotten colder!” Not everywhere, unless dipping below 100°F for the last four days counts. I am glad to see summer waning though. It fries everything by mid-August here in Texas, but it’s been a walk in the park compared to last summer. We ALWAYS try to plant fall crops that do much better, once the heat dies back a bit. The trick here is having to hit that narrow window of not TOO hot for starting new plants or direct seeding and still having enough time before a POSSIBLE early winter. We never know whether we’ll even have a freeze one year or if it’s gonna go sudden full arctic blast. LOL
I don't know when this video was shot, but it's been nearly 90 degrees and 2 days of wicked thunderstorms with widespread damage and power outages here in MI
90-101 F and no rain for a month here in mid TN. The only way to start a fall garden for me is indoors, then move things out when it cools off. There’s no direct seeding anything this time of year. Well, I did just seed some Green Beans last week that are already up outside but I’ve watered daily, sometimes twice. He still has a Lacinato Kale that looks great…yep, he lives in the North alright!
Even here in NW Arkansas we have at least another 6 weeks of heat and warm enough to grow tomatoes. Of course we have room to start our cold crops in pots and between warm crops.
Ummmm, MI Gardener = Michigan gardener. The address of his store is right in the description too.
Same boat here! I’m struggling to keep up on my gardening in this Texas heat, but it’s not nearly as hot as last year!
It's so nice that you are always a bit ahead of me in gardening so that I can watch your videos and do all theeee things. We're still going to be in the high 90s low 100s for the next few weeks, so I'm going to plant some seeds up for transplanting while my tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and beans finish up over the next few weeks. Perfect timing!
Loved this video Luke!! I'm working on getting all of my tomatoes harvested, and I am in SHOCK and still wondering what I did to deserve such a beautiful bounty from God. Dude......I haven't weighed them yet, but I'll tell you I've gotten at least 200 lbs. My upright freezer is full, of tomatoes , and I'm ripening a ton at my momma's house and still have so many left on bushes at my own home. This is crazy 😂😂😂😂 my beans are done, tomatoes are done, and I e started a second round of 45 zucchini plants. Transplanted brassicas a little over a week ago, and now figuring out what else I want to add in .thank you for helping me grow BIGGER❤
How many tomato plants did you plant? I have about 23’plants and my tomatoes are not ripening.. they are still completely green.. any ideas? I would love to make some salsa 😂
Next year I would love to get a bumper crop like you did..
@@LoriClark-f2mprune the tops of the plants to stop new ones forming. It will force plant to ripe what it already has. Make green tomato salsa, using any tomatillo salsa recipe. Hope this helps.
If you were planting in buckets or grow bags, is it advisable to leave the stumps and roots in the grow bags and buckets?
Great video Luke! One thing that I will add to what you said about planting zucchini in the fall, there are a lot less pests you would normally see in the spring and summer months! I completely stopped planting zucchini and squash in the spring and save it entirely for the fall.
Absolutely true!
Need to try it, I have too many bugs in spring!
How late can u direct sow zucchini in 7b?
I'm glad you are a little ahead of me. I've gotten maybe 2 or 3 tomatoes so far this year. The rest are just green, hanging out and waiting. 88 here in Iowa.
Similar in WI, I’ve gotten maybe 20 but tons about to ripen…hopefully! The plants are still vibrant green and no disease 🤞
Send that 88 my way.....I'm sick of this sweltering summer
Hey Luke! Even though you may not like cooking and canning with green tomatoes, you might mention that you can to other viewers so they can check it out. We eat every green tomato, either we can them in jam, Piccadilly, relish, salsa or just canned whole or slices for frying up all winter or if we have room in the freezer, we freeze them whole to be fried up later. Fried green tomatoes have a wonderful light tang to add to stir fry, etc. I love green tomatoes as much as red! We also have wild box turtles that we feed and save some partially ripened ones sitting out for those "pets". God bless
Gotta love those gentle box turtles!
I just planted some late summer pickles. I had a feeling I could get some more before the frost. So im glad I see you doing the same
Happy fall gardening szn y’all 🍁🍁🍁💚💚💚
Thank you, Luke. Perfect timing. Just enough info.😊
I especially like the references to best temperature for planting and growing per crop. That becomes as important as days to maturity for gauging indoor and direct seeding plant time when I am in such a different planting zone from you. I am currently fighting to keep plants from burning (zone 8, Texas). I can delay planting in the Fall from what you art doing. Spring is another thing all together. I would love and purchase a crop guide that included min and max planting temperatures and air temperatures per crop as well as approximate days to maturity. This information on seed packets would be wonderful.
Great information, I have butter nut squash and no powdery mildew, so healthy..no spray used they are just super healthy
Saved seeds from a local Gardner, farm... interesting
Yes! To comparative powdery mildew treatment methods
Really looking forward to this as well.
I already need the results for my winter squash.
I am in Zone 7b, my first date is November 6th (68 days). After watching you get so excited for fall crops, I can't wait to get out there, clean up and plant fall crops!!!
I’ve started beets, arugula, spinach and pak choy from seeds in mid August and planted in garden late August. Temp have been very hot but as long as I keep the watered daily the starts are doing great so far!
Aw man, did I miss the video where you started indoors? My weather is pretty similar and I would've followed suit, I like to start my own and wanted a fall season
I have just over 30 days until my garden's microclimate first frost. Next week after this heat wave is over, we will be pulling the dead summer crops and putting in the lettuce and some brassicas, and I'll probably try radishes again as well. I wanted to start some things indoors, and had some seedlings going in the greenstalk, but I was away for two critical weeks of August due to family emergency so that didnt pan out. Hopefully this year will have some autumn success, I normally don't have success in the fall.
Luke, I was visiting my sister in Alaska this summer, she grew peas and Broccoli and lettuce. I was surprised how long it took them to grow, so when you you said to start them in the fall now, the weather must be like Alaska to grow these vegetables,🥦!😊
Zucchini, cucumbers, green beans, and potatoes as my fall crops. I put them in back when you first told us to start our fall garden 😊thank you, Luke. I watching for the garlic to come in stock. My wishlist is full of hoping to get some.
You must not live in Montana ;)
@@tresero2862 Michigan
If I had the money for the seed pods I would totally get them. Currently I’m using berry containers because they are free
Barely a day or two ago the thought of leaving all the roots of my non root crop plants stay in the ground crossed my mind. Wow! Quite the timing to be watching this video. Finally, congratulations on passing 1.25 million subscribers and still increasing in that department.
Hello Luke . It finally hit me why I can’t have a fall garden with some vegetables. The latest video gave a very little inside on why. You start seeds indoors under light then transplant which I never thought of doing for fall veggies. Thanks you.
Also, as I said in the zucchini video lol, the best thing I've ever found for powdery molds of any type is dilute lactobacillus serum. I take a good spray bottle, fill it 3/4 or better with rain water, then top it off with my 1:1 lactobacillus/molasses (or slightly less of the pure serum). Spray it liberally on the entire plant...with a heavier application on affected leaves of an evening (so it won't evaporate off quickly), and I get a foliar feeding and the mold disappears. I've never takes more than two applications, even on the worst cases.
LAB is incredible for foliar feeding, and for soils...and it's completely harmless (actually beyond beneficial) to plants, humans, pets...anything living really.
Where do you get the lactobacillus from? Is the molasses necessary for the mix or can you do just lactobacillus?
@@vae884 I make it myself...it's literally in the air, on your skin...and on pretty much anything you touch. I use rice wash water to start mine (lots of recipes online...any will work...though if you start comparing them to each other it can get confusing), then once that's fermented I combine the filtered liquid with a gallon of milk. Let that sit until it separates and the liquid (whey) left over is pure lactobacillus serum. You can use brown sugar in place of molasses to stabilize it if you choose to go that route (when I do molasses I order it off Amazon...Wal Mart here doesn't carry it anymore for some reason). I mostly just keep mine in a one gallon glass jar as refrigerated pure serum though.
Also, if you don't let it get moldy...you can (and should!) absolutely eat the cheese that's made in the process. If you like fresh farm type cheeses it's delicious...and incredibly good for you.
I’m jealous of your temps. Still around 100 degrees in south Alabama
Great video Luke. I started my salads cucs and Cole crops 5 weeks ago. Cleaning out beds this weekend and planting fall next weekend. Super excited I feel on point. Videos like this help us newbies alot. Keep making them bud.
Thanks for the encouragement, Luke! Im getting off the fence now :)🌱
Why not take them to the food bank?
I was thinking the same thing!! 😢
@zoegoodfellow1988 you have to sign up to be a partner and shelters won't take food for fear of being sued if someone get sick
We send a ton to the food bank. This time of year they are saying no to donations just because they can only take so much.
@@blackcoffee2002 WOW, SERIOUSLY?
@MIgardener ahhhh OK fair enough. Their are apps for giving or selling fresh fruit and vegetables here in the UK. Maybe they have something similar? Or Facebook, Gumtree, freecycle? Food waste is so painful to see, especially with the rise of the cost of living.
I’m so excited to plant my fall garden raised beds. I can’t wait to start planting 🌱 my fall garden. I have been getting raised beds wood and it has been A LOT harder to do raised beds and my dad has to help me nail them together lol 😂 Yes 👍 it was harder then I thought not the planting part the raised bed part !! May be next time I will put different things like leaves 🍁 and sticks in before the organic raised bed bags I put 3 bags in each 3 raised beds that’s a lot of money in organic soil. Some of the organic soil has gone down in the raised bed so I’m working on getting that set up !! I have to get more wood for raised beds. It seems like there would be more space IN a ground garden like I use to do for like 20 years or longer. Everything is nice and neat in the raised bed and the weeds can be controlled better and I can put organic soil mixed with all the ingredients I need to be mixed with and choose what sort of things I want to put in raised beds. To cut on costs I definitely need some fillers I will have to do that with the rest of raised beds. It’s too bad I couldn’t get it together for tomatoes 🍅, peppers 🌶️ 🫑 banana peppers. Roman tomatoes 🍅 and cherry 🍒 tomatoes but I did buy the big husky cherry tomatoes 🍅 which were to expensive for 19.99 a piece some green peppers 🫑 and all of the rest of the stuff I normally plant 🌱 but I had to do some other things instead. Well there is always next year for a spring summer garden 🪴. I can grow some of things you’re growing. That’s so awesome 👏 that you already had some growing. This raised bed situation has been harder then I thought ❤ when I get it done ☑️ I’ll be happy 😃 about it ❤
My brassicas come back every year. I cut them off at the base, they grow back in the spring. I'm on year 3 for my kale and collards.
That’s fantastic!
Do you live in a cool climate?
I envy you. My ground freezes 2 feet deep every winter.
@@selecttravelvacations7472 Zone 6b/7a Mid-atlantic US.
luke,add peroxide to the test. its by far the best P.M. CONTROL.
Im so excited ive already started.....i am planting everything!!!!!! Im so ready to start a new gardening season. I started waking my garden up a whole month early. I dont usually start til mid September
Most of this doesn't apply to me in Florida but I'll try to remember the tips for November lol. Our 1st and last frost dates are nearly the same lol.
Correct same thing in IL. Just started to get red tomatoes…
Super helpful video! I'm a first-time winter gardener here in NC. I didn't understand when you plant your vegetables in relation to the first frost date, which, according to the Farmer's Almanac, is 11/8. It's still 90 degrees here during the day!
I planted lettuce by brushing the fluffies from one bed into a different bed. They sprouted so quickly!.
I love being in the garden, it smells nice, it looks nice, & you can eat right from the garden. Thank you for your videos :-)
Your channel has been a wealth of knowledge! Thanks for sharing and giving so much great info! I’m 8a and was thinking I was falling behind but I still have a good amount of time being a few zones from you!
Luke, can you talk about growing fruit trees from seed. And if they can be left outside the first winter.
👋 Is that why my Cilantro is just now growing I'm your neighbor from across the big lake M in zone 5 in The Badger state
My tomatoes ate still just growing green Tomatoes and 5 of my tomato plants haven't even grown flowers. I sure want lettuce cucumbers...thank you,glad I found your channel.
My tomatoes in northern Indiana have just started ripening and I finally got my first zucchini on Monday.
I have volunteer tomatoes that just came up in late July and early August. I will have tomatoes until frost
Thanks for the incentive!!
Always!
Please stress that planting in the fall typically implies planting seedlings that were begun several weeks before. Newcomers to your channel or new gardeners might think that they can plant seeds directly in the garden and still harvest veggies in the fall. It never hurts to provide facts at the lowest common denominator. Thanks for all of your great advice!
Have you watched the whole video?
They can plant seeds right in the ground and still have success. We will be direct sowing lettuce, spinach, beans, and radishes.
This is helpful and gives me courage to plant for later crops, something we don’t normally do here in Maine. But I planted more squash last week and it is growing like crazy. For some reason our string beans did not germinate this year so I replanted and they did not germinate. So…. I planted a third time about 3 1/2 weeks ago and they are up and have blossomed already! I am excited as I know we still have time to get these harvested before we have a frost. I think for our area it is Sept 30. I’m planting more spinach and carrots too. Thank you Luke!
@@MIgardenerI live in your planting zone and it’s super hot here still. I bought a purple broccoli variety from you, should I direct sow it early September?
@MIgardener I did this less then a week ago and already have sprouts!
You had a vid on Compost to fix soil issues. I bought a bag, & it was so different from what I thought compost was. Very heavy v.s. "garden soil" So, I have been adding it to the new mix, & feeding more. Thank you for your videos... BTW, I even bought a 72 cell. bottom water starting tray when I was getting the compost & stuff at Home Depot - needed some plumbing stuff too. Going to plant more flowers, well, try :-)
I ordered topsoil from a vendor, and when I received it and saw the texture, I was afraid to use it in my raised beds. It took 2 years before any weeds began growing in it. When I finally used it, I mixed 50/50 with homemade compost, and it seemed to work OK. Now, I mix top soil with potting soil and some peat moss and add ground eggshell powder to the soil with fertilizer, and the soil works great.
I totally agree with you on the Bootstrap Farmer stuff. I bought the 72 cell 1020 trays this spring, and really love them. They are the sturdiest trays I've ever used, and definitely can withstand the dishwasher.
Good to hear!
Definitely interested in the powdery mildew test! We live in an open area of some woods, so with all the shade and minimal air flow, the struggle is real. I can usually keep it in check until a heavy rain. I've tried cinnamon on the soil of my potted flowers, with pretty good success, but it seems to slow down the plant growth for a quite bit.
It's funny, since I'm in Florida zone 9, this is our time to plant tomatoes and all other classic veggies
I’m surprised you don’t make tomato paste!
Been 95 this last week! Southern Ohio.
Great info, but maybe next year post new in early to mid-august to encourage sowing for planting in late August/early September? I'll be trying some direct sowing this weekend, but shoulda have started some earlier for my IL fall garden...
You need to write a cookbook
I am having issues with powdery mildew, so I would love to see a video on that!
Will do!! Thanks
Still getting 90 degree weather down here in PA. Outright scorchers. Gonna wait a little bit and then start planting cold season crops in September, but definitely going to do some late season cucumbers.
I did this today exactly what you’re doing I’m popping in my ceilings into a race bed that I had to clear out and add a little bit more and add the trifecta that I get from you Amanda I love that stuff plus I ordered some more seeds from you, but I popped in a bunch of Zucchini, I think those real cute small pumpkins. They were already started, but I put them in the in the race bed. I will be putting a few more things in by seed. I’ve already started the fall. I’m still getting a lot of melons. I’m in Texas. I’m still getting melons and I’m hoping I’ll get a few more watermelon watermelon Possum getting me though …
If it wasn’t for a few low nighttime temps we could garden a much longer time. You have another month more than my WI garden because of the lake. The one main thing is less sunlight in fall slows growth. This spring a low tunnel definitely allowed early April planting but it was work monitoring temps.
The last few days were sweltering and threw shade fabric over fall plantings. It’s getting tricky to extend the seasons because of freak weather.
Oh that’s interesting about the powdery mildew, my dahlias got it this summer
I will have to try leaving tomato plants in the ground this year. Great advice!
Sure is heartening
I wish you did a separate canning series of “can with me” for that marinara !
Thanks Luke👍👍🎊🎉
Excited for the powdery mildew video. Every year around mid to late July my garden just gets decimated, I'll see a couple of small spots on the leaves and literally a week later all my cucurbits are covered with the stuff. I know now prevention is key. Hopefully next year I'll do better!!
I just had SUPER good luck using fermented whey and water ~1:10 (whey byproduct from making yogurt... let ferment/sit for a few days) sprayed on tops and bottoms of leaves. a week later and they're still fine 😮 if you have an instapot, yogurt is super easy to make and then strain into Greek yogurt... then there's whey leftover to use!
it is REALLY stinky after a few days fermenting, but the smell dissipates fairly quickly.
Well you got your numbers. I will be looking for the video on powdery mildew!
Coming soon! Thank you!
I’m excited for fall carrots and broccoli! 🥦🥕
Here near Portland Oregon I've been planting broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, leeks, onions, shallots, peas, kale, Swiss chard, mustard greens, spinach, arugula, romaine lettuce, head lettuce, salad mix, carrots, turnips and radish.
Im a small scale farmer. Some of these crops will be grown in greenhouses over winter and harvested in spring.
Always good tips, thanks Luke!
Luke, can we possibly control powdery mildew by trimming leaves early in the growth?
As I considered fall crops, the shorter day length and less sunlight got me wondering if the brassicas would flourish and grow. And what would be the best timing for planting in the fall garden. Zone 5. My estimation would be some time in August.
Your living fence is looking nice
Please test elemental sulphur as a way to manage powdery mildew. Possibly from the wine industry.
Fantastic tomatoes! It would be nice if you could donate the ripe ones to a local foodbank or anyone around suffering from food insecurity. If you didn't want the extra work, I bet someone would be happy to do it themselves. Just a suggestion!
Shameful to waste tomatoes when canning salsa is so easy.
Thanks. 😊
I lost my zucchini plant to powdery mildew before getting a single zucchini. I sprayed it several times with an insecticidal soap trying to save it and it just didn't happen. Maybe I'll try again for fall!
I'm sure your local Food Pantry, like Food Gatherers, etc., would appreciate all the tomatoes that you plan to compost!
Great info, thanks again.👍
Would you leave the roots for containers? What do I do with container soil when it’s done for the year?
I thought by now I'd have space for more fall veggies, by tomatoes are still going insane in Central PA! Even my determinate varieties are still popping out new fruits. Same with my peppers. This was such an odd growing season.
Hydrogen peroxide and water for powdery mildew as well. If you could please include in your tests . 🙂
So I never knew to leave the roots to plants in the ground! It’s still pretty warm here in Colorado; like 80s and might still get 90s.
So I have quite a few ripe tomatoes inside, and are they still ok to jar and freeze?
I meant to ask that cell packs! I want one, I'll see in your site
Thanks Luke. Question for crops like zucchini. If my raised bed has a low tunnel over it does that lengthen the number of days I have? If the low tunnel is closed overnight, the plants will be protected from frosts. Thanks.
You should make tomato flakes, just throw in blender and dehydrate for flakes. ❤️🙏
I don’t have any seedlings unfortunately,I plant cabbage a month ago after I pick garlic, now I have empty spot after beans 🫘. Also I plant cucumbers
I never thought about trying zucchini in the fall. I am in northern Ohio so not sure I still have time but I am going to pop a couple seeds in the ground tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks for the great ideas.
You should be able to! Luke is further north in Michigan (St. Clair area I believe) and I am in central MI and started my fall zucchini about a week ago. 😃
@@sarahfene862 Thank You.
Yessss.. fall gardening. I am excited about the next video. So, if you have baby pepper plants and tomatoe plants, then would you not grow them?
@MIgardener
Would you leave the stumps and roots in a grow bag or bucket?
Thanks
Also try borax for powdery mildew.
Too late for zucchini for me but great tip! I’ll have to do that next year
We had blight on tomatoes Luke. Would you still leave the stems and roots in ground?
What type of soil are you using in your raised bed? It looks so rich.
You could have fried those green tomatoes! I wait to fry my tomatoes when they are in that light greenish, orangy color for fried red tomatoes...talk about savory!!!
My area in the Willamette Valley of Oregon we have had a massive problem with squash bugs. I got ZERO zucchini this summer! 😢
....my tomatoes produced thru nov last year.