Fall Garden Planting | How to Grow Cool Season Vegetables

The How Do Gardener ^ | August 31, 2019 | The How Do Gardener

[orsonwb]

VIDEO: Plan, Prepare, and Plant your Fall Garden. 10 Master Gardener Tips to grow your best cool season vegetables ever. Far from being the end of the gardening year, fall offers abundant opportunities for cool weather crops.

[orsonwb]

Found this to be reasonably helpful. I really like the Freeze and Frost Date Calculator linked to from the video. You just put in your zip code and there you go. First Freeze and First Frost date for your area. Nice.

[Sacajaweau]

I just planted some spinach and some butter crunch....zone 6

[orsonwb]

Sounds good. I think it’s time for my spinach to go in too.

[Ken H]

As long as the roots are not severed, all will be well in the garden.

[mylife]

Thank you Mr Chauncey Gardener.

[Puppage]

Mmmmm, spinach.

[Sacajaweau]

I did some in early spring and enjoyed my spinach omelets...and spinach in chicken soup.

Which reminds me...Want to clean my freezer of any chicken...so soup it is.

I also grew parisian carrots. Great fun crop where soils are a problem. They're like 1 inch rounds. I sauteed some in oil and brown sugar yesterday.

[orsonwb]

You’re making me hungry

[Georgia Girl 2]

In GA its collards, broccoli and swiss chard time for my raised bed garden. Christmas Day I pull up the last collards for Christmas dinner. So much better than store bought. 😇

[orsonwb]

Home grown Collards are the best. I don’t even want to try store bought.

[Mariner]

It’s a bit early for me yet.

Zone 9b.

In about 2 weeks I’ll put in leeks, red chard and radishes.

In big red clay pots near the pool. It helps regulate temperature and when the temp gets to 27F, it’s about 34 near the pool.

It will be 100 deg today.

[MHGinTN]

Chauncy! You’re still around?

[MHGinTN]

You only beat me by a couple of hours this time!

[metmom]

There’s vegetables that grow in the snow?

Who knew?

We plant our cool season veggies in May here in NYS.

[Vermont Lt]

I have a big tent with lights in the garage. I just planted some herbs and veggies yesterday.

[Jeff Chandler]

What’s a “cool season”?

[MarMema]

Bookmarking

[orsonwb]

I have to admit I’ve never tried growing any vegetables that deep into winter, but maybe I’ll give it a try this year.

[ForMyChildren]

A bit off topic, but I’d appreciate your thoughts...

Dixie butter peas and okra still in full production, but I’d like to get ready to recondition the soil for next year.

Would rotten horse manure or goat manure be preferred?

Those are my choices, unless I take a flat shovel to my neighbor’s cow pasture.

Thank you!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

ForMyChildren :" .. I’d like to get ready to recondition the soil for next year. Would rotten horse manure or goat manure be preferred ? "

Fresh goat manure is higher in nitrogen than horse manure,
also it is drier and so would be be 'more urban friendly' (less fragerant).
It sounds to me like use horse manure and cow manure would best condition the soil,
and use the higher nitrogen goat as a controlled side dressing for growing plants.
Source :
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/goat-manure-good-fertilizer-73730.html