20 Fall Crops to Plant & When to Plant Them as Seeds or as Transplants: Basic Planting Guidelines

My garden is in Maryland Zone 7. You will have to adjust planting times based on your local temperatures. Here are 20 crops you can plant in the fall. They can take a frost. I also talk about when to plant them as either direct seeding or as transplants.

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[SuperStruct]

I love peppers tomatoes and basil. Gary out here showing us 100 plants. I guarantee this video alone could freak out a horticulture major. But I'm just vibing and learning. Have you ever thought of going back to teach at a university?

[emilybh]

With bunching onions (or scallions or green onions as they are called in grocery stores), rather than "pull them up" to harvest, if you simply cut off the top part down to about a half inch above the ground - leaving the roots in the ground (which you probably won't eat anyway), they will grow back. So you only need to plant them one time! You'll certainly never need to buy them again at the grocery store if you do this. By the same token, if you buy them from the grocery store, if you plant just the root of the onions after you have cut off and eaten the top parts, the roots will grow fresh onions.

[kele]

I'm so glad you show when things fail, and you just try again. It shows people that this happens to everyone at some point, that it's par for the course, and to not give up. This is a great transition video - really shows the differences between early spring and late summer planting, and how the plants benefit from cooler temps as they grow. Thanks Gary!

[jaytoney]

I just sowed seeds for spinach, swiss chard, Bok Choy, Winter Choy, beets, red mustard, mizuna, Komatsuna, tatsoi, and kale. I have endive, and lettuce sprouting in seed starting trays, and will be transplanting in a few weeks. In a week, I will be doing a final harvest of bush beans in a week, freeing up two 31.5" x 63" raised beds. I'll be sowing more turnips, beets, radishes, chives, and Kohlrabi, then reassessing to see what I have room for. I'm looking forward to the cooler weather in fall. Today, I harvested a bunch of beans (Cantare, Golden Butterwax, Dragon Tongue, Tongues of Fire, and Blue Lake pole beans), Cubanelle Peppers, and Banana Peppers, and processed them for this winter. All of my raised beds have hoops for greenhouse plastic, more for deer protection than frost. Central Alabama 7B

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[dougmorissette]

Excellent information in this video! I have received your book that I ordered from Amazon. Thanks.

[timothyshanley]

When you think down can you still replant what you think down, so not to waste, thx Tim

[centraltexashomestead-mike]

Gary Always a great video! Here in Texas we are still in the mid 90's so we are patiently waiting for our cooler weather. It could be 100 the second week of October so we need to be careful not to rush. I have seeds started in the seed shelf with 50% shade cover and I'll plant in succession as some of them will bolt with the warm weather. Always great info Gary. Mike

[sarahguerrero]

Thanks for this video, I rhought gardening season was over, My beets that were planted in May have not popped up yet they have medium size leaves, I wonder if I should remove those and plant more maybe they do better this time, also how often do I have to water the garden now that is not too hot in Ontario Canada?

[justatexasgirl]

Do you guys, who use grow bags, put holes in the bottom?

[jackrudden]

My broccoli and Brussels sprouts are doing amazing this fall. Just direct sowed greens a couple days ago and they are already sprouting.

[titanart]

Gary, do you mulch in the fall? If so what material do you use?

[cantnv]

I would love it if you would tell us what temps you are in, high and low

[titanart]

Gary, I have spaghetti squash not yet ripe from the summer, most of the leaves have been pruned b/c of powdery mildew, will they ripen on the vine with little to no leaves?

[MsKing]

My broccoli seedlings are turning light green and the seed leaves are yellow and red and shrivvling. Too much water?

[barbarahasenauer]

Do you recommend soaking beet seeds the night before? 1pkg out of 4 I have suggested the soaking

[sealskin]

My seed starts never seem to take off well. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Help!!

[onemoredoll]

We wont get fall til December. Not always. Sometimes we have gotten a freeze on Thanksgiving but thats extremely rare. We have actually gone to the beach at Christmas before it was so warm.

[aquillawallace]

Is it to late to plant turnip seeds here in md?