Time to Start Planning Your Fall Garden

The How Do Gardener ^ | July 10, 2012 | Rick Bickling

[orsonwb]

Even as the temperatures soar, the excitement of fireworks are still fresh in your mind, and the garden is producing at its peak, it’s time to grab a cold drink, find some shade, and start making plans for your fall garden. Thoughts of fall are probably the last thing on your mind right now. But by planning, and where appropriate planting now, your landscape and garden will be ready to flourish this fall...

[orsonwb]

Geez, it's 100 degrees outside, but the garden does need some cleanup.

[hoosiermama]

bfl

[dirtboy]

Gonna plant the next round of beets this weekend and additional batches in 2 and 4 weeks.

Baby bok choy, another round of green beans and cukes (more extension of summer crops) and turnips and lettuce.

Been too busy watering over the last three weeks to do much other than sucker the tomato plants.

[freedommom]

I am in the process of preparing my gardenspot....

we had a bad year last year and lost 178 trees...
found a way to benefit from the loss...
different from compost and better than raised beds...
and once established very low maintenance and no tilling...

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[PzLdr]

I’ve got brussels sprouts, cabbage, spinach, brocccoli and kale just about ready to go. Problem is, I’m not sure when to dig up the potatoes. Planted April 11th. Due date [per instructions] is 105 day. Websites say Fall before 1st frosts. Need the space for Fall crops. Any suggestions?

[dirtboy]

I planted my spuds about the same time and have been digging them up over the last week. You might not get quite the final yield, but you can check a plant or two by gently digging into the dirt near it and seeing how large the first spud is that you encounter.

My beet planting will be going into a space just vacated by a few potato plants.

[texas_mrs]

I usually just have a Spring garden, but this year am determined to have a Fall garden as well. Nobody sells plants by this time of year and I haven't planted any tomatoes, so am going to start new plants off my large tomato vines.

I have been covered up with squash, cucmbers and zucchini & have even been giving it to about 5 other families. Cutting back next year.


Okra, pinto beans, black-eyed peas, green beans, tomatoes and peppers all doing very well. I'm ready to start planning for Fall, though. Here is a guide for Texans for Fall planting:

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/fallgarden/falldirect.html

[orsonwb]

You might try harvesting a plant to see how big the potatoes are. If nothing else, you’ll have a few “new” potatoes that you can cook.

[rightly_dividing]

ping

[buck61]

You might try harvesting a plant to see how big the potatoes are.

Never harvest potatoes as long as the stalk is still green.The leaf’s may wither and die, but the potato still feeds from the green stalk. The same applies for onions.

[Ellendra]

Gardening ping!

[Sarajevo]

We’re getting much needed rain in the Texas Hill Country and everything is greening up. I have to wait until next month to prep for fall planting.

[goodnesswins]

Nooooooo...I’m just planting stuff for this year’s summer garden....western Oregon was WET and COOL up to a week ago...and now the “hot season” is here....

[Silentgypsy]

Does anyone know how our JustaDumbBlonde is? Haven’t seen her since 6/27.

[WXRGina]

Fall Garden PING!

[Ladysforest]

I’m not much further ahead. Got most stuff in late because of weird temps. Deep attacked. Replanted. From seed, so it’s all behind schedule. Planted most of my tomatoes from seed this year, and never having done that with heirloom I found that they took a bit longer to start than I expected. Way behind with those. Deer ate the peppers after they ate some of the tomatoes that finally were ready to transplant. But I am learning more this year that previously, so I guess that counts for something. I hope.

[tubebender]

The money paragraph...

Don’t Lose Track of Today Remember to enjoy each day on its own merit. It’s easy to get worn down by the heat, the weeding, and the canning. But don’t let the anticipation of your fall garden, and the promise of cooler temperatures yet to come, distract you from today. Remember, “To everything there is a season.”

[WorkingClassFilth]

Harvested garlic two days ago and overplanted with buckwheat for a fall tilling and rye overwinter planting. Fall root crops are still going in and cabbage for kraut is ready for transplant.

[goodwithagun]

Any suggestions on where to onion sets for fall harvest? My local places are out. I really need to get cabbage and broccoli in the ground the next few days.

[Petruchio]

No offense, but, the only thing I intend to plant this fall is my butt in the recliner during Football Season . . .