Crops You Can Direct Sow in AUGUST

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[Sara-driu]

I love that you do these "keep planting" videos. I keep your seeds on my kitchen counter all year long so i can grab and plant them but it's usually these videos that actually inspire me to go out and do it 😀

[pamelacapaldi]

"You always want to be growing something" 🙌

[AMKB]

Something I find helps is to water the prepared spaces before planting the seeds. If I'm doing rows, for example, I'll make the trenches, then use the jet setting on my hose nozzle to drive that water deeper in each trench. After the seeds are planted and covered, I give a lighter watering to settle the soil around the seeds. This way, the soil under the seeds is wet longer, and the roots will be encouraged to reach for it.

[johnwood]

Saturday I put in zucchini, cucumbers and lettuce this morning. I was planning broccoli.

[BackyardRevivalGarden]

Days to maturity before first frost is one important factor. One I learned the hard is what your light levels are going to be. For me, the days progressively get shorter leading to that first frost date. Along with temps coming down, many things will just stunt and stop growing, and then die with or before the frost.
Especially because of my garden placement, my sunlight access is even more reduced. So it's a massive impact sadly.
So for me I gotta just go straight to the cold hardy crops.

[Wildwwill]

I began soaking seeds after having ground squirrels find them while they sat in the ground waiting on germination. I do it with beans and sweetcorn. Having 3 60ft rows of sweetcorn seeds come up missing was the final straw. The little buggers went down the rows from underneath coming up to eat each seed. After several weeks of no corn sprouts I investigated.😂

[ridingwilding]

I did the moist paper towel in a Rubbermaid with pole beans and corn. I left them for 24-36 hours. Once I saw them sprout I planted the ones that sprouted.

[jvin]

Make sure your seed soaking water is Warm water. Cold water direct from the tap makes the seeds think it's too early in the spring to sprout and they may wait and rot.

[countrygalinthecity]

In Ohio. Just planted lettuces, beets, carrots, kale, mustard, spinich. I'm in a new yard so we will see. Doing mostly raised beds

[stevierysie]

I just planted pumpkins in 4 colors, zucchini, carrots, beets and radishes.

[paularaulinaitis]

My zucchini and yellow squash are a hot mess. Now that I have watched your recent videos and discovered all of the things I did wrong 🙃 I want to replant my squash plants tomorrow. Days to maturity are 50, and my first frost is 10/22. Thank you!

[kimedmonson]

🌱 I braved up and planted a stand of sweet corn 90 day variety with our first frost predicted for October 26 that's 92 days maybe a little risky but worth it ! Also planting bush beans and paste tomatoes in front yard raised beds where I emptied 80 pounds of potatoes!! It's been a tough growing season here in Southeast TN but we keep plugging awa, corn is 2 in tall already🎉

[emmalondon]

Right now I'm getting soooo much rain. I have a yard full of mushrooms.

[Saoirse.n.Murphy]

Yeah, that soaking the seeds thing would have been useful to know five years back, but I learned that too this season and great germination/success! Peace

[psychochef]

I can attest to the benefits of mulching. Texas 8b zone in July and August is no joke. Everything was growing poorly and slowly for weeks. No flowers, very little new growth. I added 3 inches of straw about a week ago. Now I can barely keep up with my cucumbers and zucchini. Tomatillos and tomatoes are picking up speed too. Mulching works!

[NotExactView]

Was just thinking what to grow in August, and your video show up, God blessings

[homesteadblessings]

Thank you Luke, just ordered more beans to start. I only order seeds from you and will tell everyone that they are the best seeds. I just had a order come in and decided to check to see if you had my beans in stock because they were out when I placed other order. They were in so I stocked up. Sale is great. God's blessing to you and yours

[casualt]

Watching this right now as we are getting a down pour thunderstorm where I live here in Michigan lol. We've had so much rain here I have hardly needed to manually water my deck garden.

[theolivesparrow]

What also matters is the trajectory of the sun as the days get shorter again -- some of my areas that were part shade are now full shade all day long -- affects what I can plant at this time.

[Hemond]

Don't forget you can also pre germinate GRASS SEED by pre soaking. I 've done this numerous times. I presoak for 48 hours, Yes 48 hours. After the soak I leave the wet bulked up seed in the empty bucket until it starts to sprout. One tip, put the dry seed in a pillowcase first, makes it much easier to drain and handle

Reduces germination time from 30 days to maybe 5. Imagine not having to sprinkle every night after work for a month? Also less time for the birds to eat all the seed.