I like to plant Spinach Lettuce Radish Beets Asparagus - optional Swiss chard Winter squash Kale Broccoli Carrots Cauliflower Snap peas Mustard spinach And a few others I hope you find this useful
Weather is flowers and or food there's so much satisfaction in putting these little dried seeds in the ground and watching them grow sometimes within 2 days.
I planted my fall garden today! I still have tomatoes, bell pepper and other peppers going strong. I am in zone 7B and our typical first frost date isn't until November 11. So, I planted collards, sugar snap peas, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots. I ran out of room so I couldn't do broccoli. Thank you Luke and Sindy for all of your posts! You have definitely been a great source of information when I need it!
Keep in mind decreasing day lengths affect which varieties you can grow. Some plants run out of growing season if planted in late Summer and there’s just not enough daylight for them, and the soil will be cooler. As a rule of thumb, the same crops will take about 2 weeks longer to mature than if they were planted in the Spring. If possible, give them 2 weeks longer growing time than specified on the seed packet for Fall planting. Luckily green tomatoes are a good crop to harvest too :)
Next autumn/winter we will be trying corn after seeing how well our one lonely plant did.. More tomatoes as well I think.. Hope you have a great season folks..
live in florida, so very luck to have a temperate climate. I planted broccoli, butternut squash, zucchini, cabbage, tomatoes , eggplant, 4 different beans, lettuce, carrots, sweet peppers!!!
Thank you for all of these great videos. I have planted my first fall garden and am using your garden videos as my guide! My husband thought I was crazy until I explained and now he is involved for the first time...with enthusiasm! My summer garden never looked more beautiful and now we are preparing for the fall. Luke I am excited too, just like you are in each episode. Best wishes to you your beautiful wife and precious daughter. Italia Patterson, Uncasville,Ct
I'm in midcoast Maine, I planted 3 varieties of carrots and chioggia beets last week. Putting in broccoli seedlings this week, which will get a cloche through October to keep them frost free. Planting peas and radishes once the weather cools down a bit!
Wow. It's like going backwards in time watching this now. You didn't have your raised beds back then. Love to see how far you've come since this video. Great info then. Still great info now. Thanks for sharing great content.
I love the way you explain why we should do what you suggest instead of just telling us to do it this way. I helps so much to know why and makes it easier to remember. Thank you so much!
Here in the Pacific NW I am planting my first Fall garden. I too planted carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabage, peas, lettuce, and spinache. I only plant what my family eats. I will be planting garlic and other crops a little later. Thanks for you tips on fall gardening.
You are surely welcome!!! :D Please keep us posted or share your garden with us @migardener on Instagram, just tag us! Also smart to grow what you eat :) - Sindy
Your explanation really cleared things up for me! I am in zone 9, deep south (Louisiana) so now I understand HOW to figure out WHAT I can and can not grow and it opens up new possibilities for me! Thank you! great video, Luke!
I love your videos. My wife and I are planting now in southeast Texas. From seeds . Romanesco Broccoli , swiss chard, collard green, turnips, beets, carrots. Fun Stuff.
Over here in Wisconsin and its Sept 6th. The hot weather is going to break tomorrow with stroms so im going to get the ground ready today and plant the seeds tomorrow before the rain. People think its too late to plant things but tons of crops hate hot weather and its really the best time to plant root veggies/ many greens. I can't wait to have cheep/ fresh radishes, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, collards, chards, onions, turnips, beets, and arugula deep into november!
I've put in lettuce, arugula, beets, celery, chinese cabbage, snapdragons, white radish, crinkled cress, parsley, cilantro, and cover crops of clover, rye, and buckwheat. I still need to get some short-day onions, garlic, carrots, turnips, chard, broccoli, kale, and collards. Thanks for the reminder. Happy Gardening!
It’s June in Kentucky. It’s been colder than we are used to and this is my first attempt at a garden on my own. I am planting two varieties of beans (a bush and pole), 2 varieties of melons, 2 varieties of tomatoes, a cucumber, and then I plan to sow some lettuce and kale mid to late August.
My parsley self-propagated this year which was a nice surprise. My camomile, which I thought was weed and was going to discard it, was even a bigger surprise volunteer plant. Huge success.
I live in Ontario. For my fall garden I've planted carrots, parsnips, early potatoes, turnips, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, radishes, chard, and arugula. I think I'm going to plant a fresh crop of kale and collards too. Oh, and brussel sprouts. I have a big garden so I actually have more room, but I've run out of seeds!
Just out of curiosity, what date do you seed your garden for fall? I live in Quebec and have intentions of starting a fall garden and my lack of experience with gardening causes me to fear to make a costly mistake.
I'm in zone 10a. Our fall garden is what you northerners plant in the spring. Yankees move down here and try planting in May and wonder why their garden burns up in June. Then they come by my place in November and marvel at the tomatoes, squash, beans, etc. Its been several years since we've had a heavy frost. Nice video, thanks.
Omg I can't believe this was so long ago! I've been watching this channel for almost a decade. If that isn't a testament to the co sistent quality of his content, then idk what does!
I produce food for a year round supply. It's not only good for the environment, but it also saves a lot of money from having to go to the store a lot to get a week's supply of food, or that additional vegetable for whatever you're cooking. More power to the MI gardener to show us how he does what he does!
Thank you, Luke. I am a Deep South girl who has been transplanted to NE Iowa & I have the worst time trying to figure out the crazy weather here and when to plant things. I haven't put anything in my bed yet because I have been weeding, and I am a little disabled & keep waiting for someone to bring me more mulch. I feel like our growing time is so short, I didn't believe we could do fall gardens in the Midwest. Thanks for the information! Your videos are all very helpful for me. I did not discover you (CaliKim gets the credit for that) until after I purchased my seeds for this year, but I will be ordering from you next year! Keep up the great job!
Cabbage, Pak Choi, and Broccoli always do great for me here in Indiana in the fall garden. I'm going to try carrots this year. Thanks for another great video!
Love to see gardeners in the garden. Especially after some have given up for the year. I'll put in more daffodil bulbs and garlic later. Now it's lettuce and turnips, radishes and flower propagation, geraniums, daisys, tulips. Thanks for the video, love and peace. Blessings
Hi Luke. Excellent advice on starting a fall garden. So far, we have carrots, collards, kale, lettuce, beets, rutabaga, tasoi, and mizuna started. We need to plant more carrots too. Thanks for the reminder!
I had to leave my first ever garden this spring to move to China for work, but I just finished planting tomatoes, basil, peppers, lettuce, and corn in my sunroom. I was told by one of my Chinese coworkers that they will grow year round in the sunrooms in the apartments. fingers crossed.
I haven't ever planted food for a fall garden. I plant in containers. Usually just mums in the ground. This year I will give it a try . Thank you for the inspiration.
Here in New Jersey, I plant spinach in my fall garden, outside in my cold frame. I was able to harvest the spinach all winter long, right thru to spring, which was really cool. I also planted iceburg lettuce, but because of the constant freezing & thawing during the winter, while the plant did not die and did continue to grow, the leaves had a rubbery appearance. I ended up throwing out the lettuce. This fall, I plan on planting the spinach, onions, and carrots in the coldframe. Rob.
hi, our growing season in the southwest is a very long one, 280 days or more. I planted kale, radishes, carrots, beets, endive, swiss chard, bush beans, spinach, zucchini, yellow squash, spaghetti squash, butternut squash and more cucumbers! loved your video, thanks!
Last week, I planted beets, carrots, radishes, fennel, zinnias, green and yellow zucchinis and marigolds. This week I planted kale, peas, yellow squash and a bunch of brassica family.
I'm further south than you in Maryland Zone 7. I always plant Kale, Collard Greens, and Swiss Chard, because they will actually last over the winter. Kale actually tastes sweeter after a few frosts have hit it.
Chuck Brogan Well winter squash is what I was thinking of. You can pick it and it will keep for months. But I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work with chard. Must've been up late that night...lol.
Soil prep? I hope you would have covered that a bit for us new gardeners friend. Lovely garden and great ideas on fast maturing plants. Maybe you can cross reference to another video where you show how you prepare and amend your soil Thanks for all the inspiration
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! I live in Maryland and I decided to start my first garden. I was thinking I was late starting my garden. I'm not finish watching your video but already I stopped to look up our first frost date....its November 15!!!!! I just planted seeds of tomatoes, kale, squash, collards and cucumbers. I've googled and searched and your video has been the most helpful! I subscribed!
+mzzflawlessbeauty I'm guessing your collards and kale will be your best success with the Fall planting. If you use green onions, you can experiment with planting the root ends you cut off. If you like parsley or cilantro, it can be transplanted. I like to grow calendula flowers in with kale and collards. If bugs go after your garden, put out an inch or two of cheap corn oil in a small container. I use soda cans or juice glasses. The bugs climb in and can't get out. I have a $Store strainer that I remove the bugs every few days, and reuse it for a few weeks until the critters are gone. I toss the bugs out for the birds to eat them. Eventually, I toss the oil in the trash. Also, put down some loose mulch, once your plants are established, straw/leaves/grass clippings/shredded trees to insulate your soil and I think your plants may survive and thrive longer when the temperatures drop.
great points here, Luke! So much that can be planted in the fall, its just deciding what to plant first! More beans, kale, chard for me - perhaps some broccoli, carrots, and sweet peas, cilantro as the weather cools here in So Cal. I'd also like to plant some diakon radishes to break up my heavy clay soil!
CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY i have the same soil type. Ive broken shovels trying to dig down. I didnt dig this year i piled wood chips and decomposed wood/leaf matter, sphagnum peat moss, and dirt from my friend that has a gray sandy soil. I talked to my husband about planting daikon for an area thats REALLY DRY SUPER DENSE clay. Our trees that are a border there grow so SLOW! Have u planted daikon before?
I've been working on what to grow too. Crops that have an extended harvest, add an extra month to the days to harvest in planning. (things like tomatoes, peas, beans, zucchini, etc...) I like how you chose so many root crops to avoid this. I have a mild Winter, and plan to put in peas, turnips, and parsley together. They've been good companion crops in the past.
Report from a newbie gardener in California. zone 9b. I watch a lot of gardening videos, but I make sure to watch MIgardener. I have soil that ranges from heavy to clay, and the sun in central CA is like Saudi Arabia. I should raise camels. I have been gardening for 2 years now, and have made all the mistakes at least twice. All living things die, it's just in my garden, death arrives early. So, I have built Hugel culture mounds and focused on soil building elsewhere. I'm burying all my fiber. I enrich soil where I plant with store bought soil. I plant sunflowers, buckwheat, cowpeas, and carrots. Carrots do the best. I grow tomatoes and peppers in containers. My onions think I'm a good gardener and they thrive. It's mid-July and I'm going to plant string beans, more cowpeas and always sunflowers. I like the idea of green mulch. I took Luke's advice to use pine shavings as a mulch on edible plants. I started some dwarf Namwa bananas in whisky barrel halves. I mulch these with comfrey and rose flowers. I'm shopping for a grow light to start seeds indoors, so the critters won't eat them, and get an earlier start.
I love that you admit your mistakes....that's a pro-gardener mentality right there! I had pretty bad soil as well (compacted clay). I stopped fighting it and switched to no-till, no-dig, lasagna gardening (essentially layering organic matter on top of organic matter) and all of a sudden, the graded soil didn't matter. Every year got better because my organic layers just built upon each other. I'll never go back to conventional gardening again!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms - I like the "lasagna" term. I understand the layering on top of difficult soil, as I've watched some vids on the topic. I'd be doing the side of the house with that method, in just a few weeks. I'll be experimenting with different ground covers., both annuals and perennials. Bought my first grow lite. I'll be setting it up today.
I am doing kale, spinach, lettuce, spring onions, and carrots. Maybe some swiss chard too. I hear cilantro is awesome in the winter too, so I am trying to get some of that going also. Great video as always, thanks Luke!
I don't thin carrots, so we are making more soil under wood chips so they will just shift around in soft soil. We grow carrots in pots, and other places where the soil is real soft and fluffy. Our brassica bed is a little rocky still, even though our wood chips are composting pretty quick in 100 plus degree weather. It's really helping add to our existing soil. We grow Imperator carrots also. We have lots and lots of carrot seeds which is just wonderful. Thank you
I'm so glad to have found your channel! I'm in SW Michigan, about 100 miles due West of your location. I love that I have zero guesswork as to whether what you're doing will work in my climate.
This is my first Fall garden. I'm doing lettuce, kale, spinach, brussell sprouts and argula and starting to grow microgreens. I enjoy your videos so much! From Lexington Kentucky THANKS
Perfect choice! Add in carrots and garlic and that's all my top choices! You'll love fall gardening...done right it can be even MORE productive than summer gardening.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms we have carrots. I'm attempting to grow sprouts... I need all the help I can get lol Thank you so much for your encouraging words!
@@TheMayorsDaughter You got this. Sprouts (and microgreens) are amazing. I always put people on to them first as a gateway to gardening because they are so fast and easy to just reset and try again! Very rewarding and gets people growing!
I have been planning to plant a fall garden. The poppies are a great idea. I really like that you use Dill and Sunflowers as a border. I see that you plant the marigold in with your tomatoes. I grow Borage with my tomato plants as well. Pollinators love these flowers. Thanks for the info and enthusiasm.
Enjoy your show Luke. I live in Southwest Florida and always am amused by the shows zones 5 and 4 Everything you plant in the spring, I plant in the fall. Tomatoes would never survive a summer here. I do seeds protected and put the plants in in late October. We never get cold or frost. Florida gardening is combat gardening. My bugs drink neem oil.
Here in Blighty(England) going to try cabbage, spinach, kale, carrots (I have never grown carrots in the fall before), radish, lettuce, turnips, Swede, celery, Spring onions, potatoes(in pots),bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, beetroots etc just done peas but not for pods just for young shoots to garnish sandwiches and will plant more peas at end of week. Everything I grow is indoors along the hallways in plant troughs apart from potatoes as they are grown outside on the roof. When you explained about why you prefer to grow fall carrots it made me think twice about how much I should water my fall carrots, thank you for sharing about growing some plants for the bees etc I do not get any bees indoors but I do have some poppy seeds and will throw some in the car park area verge.... Now wheres my seeds...er which pocket did I put them in ?
Thanks for the encouragement to experiment with fall planting. I dug a sunflower garden parallel to the road to hopefully act as a fence in the future. As a ground cover for this year, in the exposed soil I planted poppies, carrots, squash, zucchini, lupines, and dill.
Hey guys , it's July 5 th 2018 , and we have a garden in already . Potatoes are doing awesome !! We also have in beets , green peppers , cabbage , celery etc . a whole bunch of veggies from the first planting but today I went out and planted carrots and turnip and dragon tongue beans . guess we'll see how it goes eh . Oh ya , I'm in Northern Ontario , Canada but I'm pretty sure everything will be fine . Wish me luck !
I'm in Texas. I planted my first fall garden this year of peas, beans, carrots, lettuce, spinach, bok choy, brocolli, and squash. We will see what happens.
I've never seen dill that big before! I think this year I'm going to plant broccoli, kale, spinach, lettuce, carrots, onions, garlic, and cabbage. Didn't know if I could grow kohlrabi and shallots. I've already got peas, lettuce, grn. beans, tom.s, a few cabbage, spinach planted. Good advice!
Thanks for the video! It's great to see what you are planting. I have planted a lot of chard and spinach in my first fall garden, as well as some beets, broccoli, peas, chives, cilantro, and kale. You have inspired me to plant poppies! I did put a chrysanthemum in the middle of one of my raised beds.
OikoEco Productions 😂 He means that there is no concrete definition of a “fall crop”, ie some would say that tomatoes are not part of a fall garden. Luke is saying a fall garden is anything you want to make it.
OikoEco Productions If you want to collaborate, I’d like to explore a brand new concept based on this. I call it “The Winter Garden”, which I envision will entail the growing of various plants in specific time frames.
You have me inspired to try and redo mine. I planted some spinach, kale, carrots, radishes etc. last month and the bugs and ants got to it lol. The ants like to steal the seeds before they even sprout! We are in Michigan but I think the rain is finally helping my tomatoes, cucumbers and watermelons.
Starting back on Aug 10, I started making soil blocks and planting seeds as I went a long. I think I have 13 trays, each with 28 blocks. I planted things like spinach, mustard, broccoli, lettuce, carrots, fennel, arugula, radish, bok choy, mache, sorrel .. you get the idea, lots of greens. When it comes time for the summer veggies to reside in the compost pile (October-ish), I'll put the blocks in the garden. It is what I have to do with limited space. I'll also cover my beds with floating row cover for a few weeks or so, and then I'll put up the plastic tunnels probably around November .. depends on the weather. Zone 5, but it has been known to snow as early as Sept 3 in the Denver area. The whole thing keeps me on edge. But the plan is to keep eating fresh greens through the winter.
My friends and I just discovered your channel and Love it very much! We are In Vancouver, BC, Canada. We have used many of your tips successfully! Thanks
Thanks Luke. Your Garden is wonderful. I will be putting in Pea's, carrots, cabbage, spinach, beets. Im in NC so frost is late in the season most years.
Really appreciate your earnest advice, thank you! Am looking to plant my first ever fall garden and will definitely be planting carrots now (among other things) thanks to you!
My fall garden will be full of kale and spinach varieties as well as collards, turnips and, perhaps, beets. I will also plant lettuce and arugula to harvest before frost. Cabbage also does very well -- unless, of course, we have an ice storm of multiple days of really, really cold weather. I typically have kale, spinach, collards and turnips throughout the winter. I will let the cabbages grown until a deep freeze warming (which we don't often get in my part of Arkansas.).
I plant carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, turnips, mustard greens, radish, onions, beets, spinach. Swiss chard for the 1st time to try it because I have never eaten it before. I wanted to grow some peas, but I have to go get the seeds.
My fall garden is kale heavy, with school starting soon and husband taking acked lunch, I make 20+ sandwiches each week and most contain fresh kale from just outside my door. I intend to try onions this next year and am now considering starting garlic this year. Thanks for the info and helo from the ann arbor area.
I agree with you. A fall garden is a garden in the fall! Haha goood point on why we should grow carrots, I should give that a try. You look so little next to those huge corn and sunflowers! Lol
Today I planted beets, baby bok choy, and a mix of lettuces, my 2nd planting. 2 weeks ago I planted spinach, chard, beets, and radishes. MN zone 4 here, trying to push the season as far as I can.
We are in central Wisconsin and we are planting some squash, lettuce, kale, beets, and now carrots! This is our first year doing a fall crop so we arepretty excited to see how it turns out :)
🍁🌿🐝🌻🍁🍂Thank you for the tips!! Growing carrots, collards, tomatoes,squash in my fall garden!! Need to hurry and get started on my lettuce, radishes, broccoli, garlic and poppys!! Have an empty boat eager to fill with some fall garden Love!!
Your videos are so helpful. I like them all, but do enjoy ones that cover broad topics like this one. My fall garden seedlings experienced some devastation by chickens about a week before I was going to transplant. Planning to build a covered rack for them before spring. What remained, was transplanted along with some starters I purchased. Doing well: purple kohlrabi, broccoli, dinosaur kale, lettuce, onions (sets), garlic,, and some weird kind of collard. Not doing so well: carrots and beets. I can never fertilize my sandy soil enough.
I'm in north western North Carolina and plant lettuce, garlic, onions, broccoli, spinach, collards and Brussels sprouts. I've never had success with carrots, but may try again.
+Vivian Donovan I would consider containers.. It's how I do mine and I don't think I'll ever plant in ground.. I have a video on my channel of a small harvest I did..
love your video. Mice do not look around from some high advantage point for signs of carrots just so you know. All critters know you have carrots hate to tell you this but if you grow flagrant flowers or garlic or other things that distract the critters it will help. A rabbit enclosure works too or small wire fence depending where you live. I have had veggie gardens that were never touched by anything and others that were raided all the time by every creature in a 1 mile radius so ........distraction is the key. Keep your Bird feeders away from your garden by as far as you can and where you put your garbage cans should be totally clean and non smelly when you have a veggie garden. Peace !!
We live in MI and are planting a fall garden... thanks again. We are planting what you did and planted cucumbers last week. All Migardener seeds from the website too.😁
Wow, I got the seedlings from my local garden shop and I have snow peas, dwarf beans, cabbage, kale, broccoli and carrot seeds. I can't wait to cover the bare ground from a very dry and damaging summer here in Australia. I forgot about pollinator food, so I am thinking russian sage and red poppies would be a nice contrast to each other. I like my veg garden to sit among flowers and flowers always look pretty surround by green foliage.
i always plant my garlic in October, zone 5 and cover with about 6 inches fall leaves. have always had big beautiful garlic in June-early July harvest. the leaves stay and provide weed suppression in spring. I have planted too early and failed. I have found that it helps to grow the garlic in the ground where there is looser soil and sand and drainage with versus raised beds that freeze too much here in zone 5. I have planted my garlic in areas of poor drainage and heavier clay. they grow moderate size and are a bear to harvest. I love garlic because I plant them, water them till frost 2 times a week and forget about them till spring . I fertilize them once then top the scapes, since I grow mostly hard necks for my zone, water when dry and pull the weeds around them and I get amazing garlic! soooo easy!
I like to plant
Spinach
Lettuce
Radish
Beets
Asparagus - optional
Swiss chard
Winter squash
Kale
Broccoli
Carrots
Cauliflower
Snap peas
Mustard spinach
And a few others I hope you find this useful
winter squash is a long season crop.. how do you plant winter squash in a fall garden?
winter squash is a long season crop.. how do you plant winter squash in a fall garden?
I don't know why this posted 4 times...
I don't know why this posted 4 times...
Better list than carrots carrots and carrots and wait carrots!
I like to cover my late season carrots with leaves then harvest them throughout the winter.
that'll work!
Great idea thank you
I am so grateful to have these older videos from you. Still so much to learn and draw inspiration from you. Big thumbs up!!
Weather is flowers and or food there's so much satisfaction in putting these little dried seeds in the ground and watching them grow sometimes within 2 days.
I planted my fall garden today! I still have tomatoes, bell pepper and other peppers going strong. I am in zone 7B and our typical first frost date isn't until November 11. So, I planted collards, sugar snap peas, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots. I ran out of room so I couldn't do broccoli. Thank you Luke and Sindy for all of your posts! You have definitely been a great source of information when I need it!
That sunflower is totally photo-bombing this vid
James Bryman lol
hahaahah nice
James Bryman Totally...lol 😍🌻💖
James Bryman I know, I can't stop looking at the sunflower.
Sunflower is saying HEY! You forgot SUNFLOWERS! GROW MORE SUNFLOWERS!
Keep in mind decreasing day lengths affect which varieties you can grow. Some plants run out of growing season if planted in late Summer and there’s just not enough daylight for them, and the soil will be cooler. As a rule of thumb, the same crops will take about 2 weeks longer to mature than if they were planted in the Spring. If possible, give them 2 weeks longer growing time than specified on the seed packet for Fall planting. Luckily green tomatoes are a good crop to harvest too :)
Next autumn/winter we will be trying corn after seeing how well our one lonely plant did.. More tomatoes as well I think..
Hope you have a great season folks..
live in florida, so very luck to have a temperate climate. I planted broccoli, butternut squash, zucchini, cabbage, tomatoes , eggplant, 4 different beans, lettuce, carrots, sweet peppers!!!
Thank you for all of these great videos. I have planted my first fall garden and am using your garden videos as my guide! My husband thought I was crazy until I explained and now he is involved for the first time...with enthusiasm! My summer garden never looked more beautiful and now we are preparing for the fall. Luke I am excited too, just like you are in each episode. Best wishes to you your beautiful wife and precious daughter. Italia Patterson, Uncasville,Ct
I'm in midcoast Maine, I planted 3 varieties of carrots and chioggia beets last week. Putting in broccoli seedlings this week, which will get a cloche through October to keep them frost free. Planting peas and radishes once the weather cools down a bit!
Wow. It's like going backwards in time watching this now. You didn't have your raised beds back then. Love to see how far you've come since this video. Great info then. Still great info now. Thanks for sharing great content.
I love the way you explain why we should do what you suggest instead of just telling us to do it this way. I helps so much to know why and makes it easier to remember. Thank you so much!
I love finding older videos that I have missed. Great service you are giving and hopefully it comes back to you and your family.
Here in the Pacific NW I am planting my first Fall garden. I too planted carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabage, peas, lettuce, and spinache. I only plant what my family eats. I will be planting garlic and other crops a little later. Thanks for you tips on fall gardening.
You are surely welcome!!! :D Please keep us posted or share your garden with us @migardener on Instagram, just tag us! Also smart to grow what you eat :) - Sindy
My garden is currently featured on "Pine Meadows Hobby Farm" channel. Thanks, and I will keep watching to see your progress.
Your explanation really cleared things up for me! I am in zone 9, deep south (Louisiana) so now I understand HOW to figure out WHAT I can and can not grow and it opens up new possibilities for me! Thank you! great video, Luke!
10:12 Love the idea of planting root vegetables in the fall and rototilling them in in the spring to nourish the soil!
This fall I'm growing brussel sprouts collard greens broccoli cauliflower kale, red and yellow onions. Can't wait for my fall garden
I love your videos. My wife and I are planting now in southeast Texas. From seeds . Romanesco Broccoli , swiss chard, collard green, turnips, beets, carrots. Fun Stuff.
Planting from seed is always the best!
I am glad u spoke about garlic. never understood them til now
Over here in Wisconsin and its Sept 6th. The hot weather is going to break tomorrow with stroms so im going to get the ground ready today and plant the seeds tomorrow before the rain. People think its too late to plant things but tons of crops hate hot weather and its really the best time to plant root veggies/ many greens. I can't wait to have cheep/ fresh radishes, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, collards, chards, onions, turnips, beets, and arugula deep into november!
+jimi allman That is the spirit! Way to go!
You were more helpful than this carrot crazy guy! Thanks!!
Mmm...arrrrrrugula! With some roasted parsnips and beets-killer!
Exactly!
I've put in lettuce, arugula, beets, celery, chinese cabbage, snapdragons, white radish, crinkled cress, parsley, cilantro, and cover crops of clover, rye, and buckwheat. I still need to get some short-day onions, garlic, carrots, turnips, chard, broccoli, kale, and collards. Thanks for the reminder. Happy Gardening!
It’s June in Kentucky. It’s been colder than we are used to and this is my first attempt at a garden on my own. I am planting two varieties of beans (a bush and pole), 2 varieties of melons, 2 varieties of tomatoes, a cucumber, and then I plan to sow some lettuce and kale mid to late August.
That dill is gorgeous. So fun to plant when the weather is cooler. It’s still so hot in central Texas, my zone 8. Good luck!
My parsley self-propagated this year which was a nice surprise. My camomile, which I thought was weed and was going to discard it, was even a bigger surprise volunteer plant. Huge success.
My fall garden is like most gardener's summer garden. Glad to hear you are planting one.
I live in Ontario. For my fall garden I've planted carrots, parsnips, early potatoes, turnips, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, radishes, chard, and arugula. I think I'm going to plant a fresh crop of kale and collards too. Oh, and brussel sprouts. I have a big garden so I actually have more room, but I've run out of seeds!
Just out of curiosity, what date do you seed your garden for fall? I live in Quebec and have intentions of starting a fall garden and my lack of experience with gardening causes me to fear to make a costly mistake.
I'm in zone 10a. Our fall garden is what you northerners plant in the spring. Yankees move down here and try planting in May and wonder why their garden burns up in June. Then they come by my place in November and marvel at the tomatoes, squash, beans, etc. Its been several years since we've had a heavy frost. Nice video, thanks.
Omg I can't believe this was so long ago! I've been watching this channel for almost a decade. If that isn't a testament to the co sistent quality of his content, then idk what does!
I produce food for a year round supply. It's not only good for the environment, but it also saves a lot of money from having to go to the store a lot to get a week's supply of food, or that additional vegetable for whatever you're cooking. More power to the MI gardener to show us how he does what he does!
Thank you, Luke. I am a Deep South girl who has been transplanted to NE Iowa & I have the worst time trying to figure out the crazy weather here and when to plant things. I haven't put anything in my bed yet because I have been weeding, and I am a little disabled & keep waiting for someone to bring me more mulch. I feel like our growing time is so short, I didn't believe we could do fall gardens in the Midwest. Thanks for the information! Your videos are all very helpful for me. I did not discover you (CaliKim gets the credit for that) until after I purchased my seeds for this year, but I will be ordering from you next year! Keep up the great job!
Cabbage, Pak Choi, and Broccoli always do great for me here in Indiana in the fall garden. I'm going to try carrots this year. Thanks for another great video!
Love to see gardeners in the garden. Especially after some have given up for the year. I'll put in more daffodil bulbs and garlic later. Now it's lettuce and turnips, radishes and flower propagation, geraniums, daisys, tulips. Thanks for the video, love and peace. Blessings
Hi Luke. Excellent advice on starting a fall garden. So far, we have carrots, collards, kale, lettuce, beets, rutabaga, tasoi, and mizuna started. We need to plant more carrots too. Thanks for the reminder!
I had to leave my first ever garden this spring to move to China for work, but I just finished planting tomatoes, basil, peppers, lettuce, and corn in my sunroom. I was told by one of my Chinese coworkers that they will grow year round in the sunrooms in the apartments. fingers crossed.
I literally was just thinking before you said it man I need to start wearing my cargo pants when I garden. Makes life so much easier!
That sunflower though! Looks like it wants a cameo. :)
I’m in Pennsylvania and here for my fall garden I do beets, cabbage, and green beans. Already harvested the carrots.
So nice to see you planting in the ground instead of wood raised beds. I think that’s what was intended for us to do.
I haven't ever planted food for a fall garden. I plant in containers. Usually just mums in the ground. This year I will give it a try . Thank you for the inspiration.
Here in New Jersey, I plant spinach in my fall garden, outside in my cold frame.
I was able to harvest the spinach all winter long, right thru to spring, which was really cool.
I also planted iceburg lettuce, but because of the constant freezing & thawing during the winter, while the plant did not die and did continue to grow, the leaves had a rubbery appearance. I ended up throwing out the lettuce. This fall, I plan on planting the spinach, onions, and carrots in the coldframe. Rob.
hi, our growing season in the southwest is a very long one, 280 days or more. I planted kale, radishes, carrots, beets, endive, swiss chard, bush beans, spinach, zucchini, yellow squash, spaghetti squash, butternut squash and more cucumbers! loved your video, thanks!
+Swayy Watkins I am so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you will enjoy our other videos!
Last week, I planted beets, carrots, radishes, fennel, zinnias, green and yellow zucchinis and marigolds. This week I planted kale, peas, yellow squash and a bunch of brassica family.
I'm further south than you in Maryland Zone 7. I always plant Kale, Collard Greens, and Swiss Chard, because they will actually last over the winter. Kale actually tastes sweeter after a few frosts have hit it.
Chard will overwinter? Or do you mean it just lasts through the winter?
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I plant to cold frame my garden: would Chard be OK in there?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Swiss Chard will overwinter and new leaves will appear in the Spring.
Chuck Brogan Well winter squash is what I was thinking of. You can pick it and it will keep for months. But I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work with chard.
Must've been up late that night...lol.
It does work with Chard. Mine was growing through last winter just fine here in Zone 7.
broccoli, chard, spinach, leafy greens, radishes, and herbs are our winter crops in zone 8 and they do well in zone 7, 8, 9
I'm getting ready to plant some potatoes here in NORTH CAROLINA. I keep putting in other plants when the summer ones are gone. Thank you Luke
Soil prep? I hope you would have covered that a bit for us new gardeners friend. Lovely garden and great ideas on fast maturing plants.
Maybe you can cross reference to another video where you show how you prepare and amend your soil
Thanks for all the inspiration
Your a nice guy. Good for you to occupy yourself with such a wholesome endeavor. Thanks for your advice.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! I live in Maryland and I decided to start my first garden. I was thinking I was late starting my garden. I'm not finish watching your video but already I stopped to look up our first frost date....its November 15!!!!! I just planted seeds of tomatoes, kale, squash, collards and cucumbers. I've googled and searched and your video has been the most helpful! I subscribed!
+mzzflawlessbeauty I'm guessing your collards and kale will be your best success with the Fall planting. If you use green onions, you can experiment with planting the root ends you cut off. If you like parsley or cilantro, it can be transplanted. I like to grow calendula flowers in with kale and collards.
If bugs go after your garden, put out an inch or two of cheap corn oil in a small container. I use soda cans or juice glasses. The bugs climb in and can't get out. I have a $Store strainer that I remove the bugs every few days, and reuse it for a few weeks until the critters are gone. I toss the bugs out for the birds to eat them. Eventually, I toss the oil in the trash.
Also, put down some loose mulch, once your plants are established, straw/leaves/grass clippings/shredded trees to insulate your soil and I think your plants may survive and thrive longer when the temperatures drop.
great points here, Luke! So much that can be planted in the fall, its just deciding what to plant first! More beans, kale, chard for me - perhaps some broccoli, carrots, and sweet peas, cilantro as the weather cools here in So Cal. I'd also like to plant some diakon radishes to break up my heavy clay soil!
CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY i have the same soil type. Ive broken shovels trying to dig down. I didnt dig this year i piled wood chips and decomposed wood/leaf matter, sphagnum peat moss, and dirt from my friend that has a gray sandy soil. I talked to my husband about planting daikon for an area thats REALLY DRY SUPER DENSE clay. Our trees that are a border there grow so SLOW! Have u planted daikon before?
I just started watching your channel. It's great I live in PA and starting to make my garden for my retirement.
I've been working on what to grow too. Crops that have an extended harvest, add an extra month to the days to harvest in planning. (things like tomatoes, peas, beans, zucchini, etc...) I like how you chose so many root crops to avoid this. I have a mild Winter, and plan to put in peas, turnips, and parsley together. They've been good companion crops in the past.
Report from a newbie gardener in California. zone 9b. I watch a lot of gardening videos, but I make sure to watch MIgardener. I have soil that ranges from heavy to clay, and the sun in central CA is like Saudi Arabia. I should raise camels. I have been gardening for 2 years now, and have made all the mistakes at least twice. All living things die, it's just in my garden, death arrives early. So, I have built Hugel culture mounds and focused on soil building elsewhere. I'm burying all my fiber. I enrich soil where I plant with store bought soil. I plant sunflowers, buckwheat, cowpeas, and carrots. Carrots do the best. I grow tomatoes and peppers in containers. My onions think I'm a good gardener and they thrive. It's mid-July and I'm going to plant string beans, more cowpeas and always sunflowers. I like the idea of green mulch. I took Luke's advice to use pine shavings as a mulch on edible plants. I started some dwarf Namwa bananas in whisky barrel halves. I mulch these with comfrey and rose flowers. I'm shopping for a grow light to start seeds indoors, so the critters won't eat them, and get an earlier start.
I love that you admit your mistakes....that's a pro-gardener mentality right there! I had pretty bad soil as well (compacted clay). I stopped fighting it and switched to no-till, no-dig, lasagna gardening (essentially layering organic matter on top of organic matter) and all of a sudden, the graded soil didn't matter. Every year got better because my organic layers just built upon each other. I'll never go back to conventional gardening again!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms - I like the "lasagna" term. I understand the layering on top of difficult soil, as I've watched some vids on the topic. I'd be doing the side of the house with that method, in just a few weeks. I'll be experimenting with different ground covers., both annuals and perennials. Bought my first grow lite. I'll be setting it up today.
I am doing kale, spinach, lettuce, spring onions, and carrots. Maybe some swiss chard too. I hear cilantro is awesome in the winter too, so I am trying to get some of that going also. Great video as always, thanks Luke!
I don't thin carrots, so we are making more soil under wood chips so they will just shift around in soft soil. We grow carrots in pots, and other places where the soil is real soft and fluffy. Our brassica bed is a little rocky still, even though our wood chips are composting pretty quick in 100 plus degree weather. It's really helping add to our existing soil. We grow Imperator carrots also. We have lots and lots of carrot seeds which is just wonderful. Thank you
I'm so glad to have found your channel! I'm in SW Michigan, about 100 miles due West of your location. I love that I have zero guesswork as to whether what you're doing will work in my climate.
I am in SE Michigan. I agree it is great to have "Local" information.
No fall garden for me this year since I'm rehabbing a broken arm and leg. But you've given me great ideas for next year. Thanks.
This is my first Fall garden. I'm doing lettuce, kale, spinach, brussell sprouts and argula and starting to grow microgreens. I enjoy your videos so much! From Lexington Kentucky THANKS
Perfect choice! Add in carrots and garlic and that's all my top choices! You'll love fall gardening...done right it can be even MORE productive than summer gardening.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms we have carrots. I'm attempting to grow sprouts... I need all the help I can get lol Thank you so much for your encouraging words!
@@TheMayorsDaughter You got this. Sprouts (and microgreens) are amazing. I always put people on to them first as a gateway to gardening because they are so fast and easy to just reset and try again! Very rewarding and gets people growing!
I have been planning to plant a fall garden. The poppies are a great idea.
I really like that you use Dill and Sunflowers as a border. I see that you plant the marigold in with your tomatoes. I grow Borage with my tomato plants as well. Pollinators love these flowers. Thanks for the info and enthusiasm.
Enjoy your show Luke. I live in Southwest Florida and always am amused by the shows zones 5 and 4
Everything you plant in the spring, I plant in the fall. Tomatoes would never survive a summer here. I do seeds protected and put the plants in in late October. We never get cold or frost.
Florida gardening is combat gardening. My bugs drink neem oil.
thanks. I am a first time gardenar and you have been helpful
Here in Blighty(England) going to try cabbage, spinach, kale, carrots (I have never grown carrots in the fall before), radish, lettuce, turnips, Swede, celery, Spring onions, potatoes(in pots),bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, beetroots etc just done peas but not for pods just for young shoots to garnish sandwiches and will plant more peas at end of week. Everything I grow is indoors along the hallways in plant troughs apart from potatoes as they are grown outside on the roof. When you explained about why you prefer to grow fall carrots it made me think twice about how much I should water my fall carrots, thank you for sharing about growing some plants for the bees etc I do not get any bees indoors but I do have some poppy seeds and will throw some in the car park area verge.... Now wheres my seeds...er which pocket did I put them in ?
Wow, you grow all of that indoors? That's amazing!
Spinach and garlic are my choice this year. Spinach will survive the winter and be amazing in the Spring.
Thanks for the encouragement to experiment with fall planting. I dug a sunflower garden parallel to the road to hopefully act as a fence in the future. As a ground cover for this year, in the exposed soil I planted poppies, carrots, squash, zucchini, lupines, and dill.
Hey guys , it's July 5 th 2018 , and we have a garden in already . Potatoes are doing awesome !! We also have in beets , green peppers , cabbage , celery etc . a whole bunch of veggies from the first planting but today I went out and planted carrots and turnip and dragon tongue beans . guess we'll see how it goes eh . Oh ya , I'm in Northern Ontario ,
Canada but I'm pretty sure everything will be fine . Wish me luck !
I'm in Texas. I planted my first fall garden this year of peas, beans, carrots, lettuce, spinach, bok choy, brocolli, and squash. We will see what happens.
I've never seen dill that big before! I think this year I'm going to plant broccoli, kale, spinach, lettuce, carrots, onions, garlic, and cabbage. Didn't know if I could grow kohlrabi and shallots. I've already got peas, lettuce, grn. beans, tom.s, a few cabbage, spinach planted. Good advice!
Thanks for the video! It's great to see what you are planting. I have planted a lot of chard and spinach in my first fall garden, as well as some beets, broccoli, peas, chives, cilantro, and kale. You have inspired me to plant poppies! I did put a chrysanthemum in the middle of one of my raised beds.
+NewOregon Gardener You have an excellent fall garden going! Nice selection.
I know this video is 3 years old, but I just have to say, I SO jealous of your dill growing in the background! Lol
Great inspiration! We're trying broccoli, kale, cauliflower, spinach and radish this fall 😁💚
"a fall garden, in my opinion, is a garden in the fall"
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Luke knows what he is doing, Michigan can have a fall garden. We do have good weather for a fall garden
@@windflowerrainstorm6497 as a fellow desert Californian, thank you for this reference!
OikoEco Productions 😂 He means that there is no concrete definition of a “fall crop”, ie some would say that tomatoes are not part of a fall garden. Luke is saying a fall garden is anything you want to make it.
OikoEco Productions If you want to collaborate, I’d like to explore a brand new concept based on this. I call it “The Winter Garden”, which I envision will entail the growing of various plants in specific time frames.
He didnt say that.
You have me inspired to try and redo mine. I planted some spinach, kale, carrots, radishes etc. last month and the bugs and ants got to it lol. The ants like to steal the seeds before they even sprout! We are in Michigan but I think the rain is finally helping my tomatoes, cucumbers and watermelons.
Starting back on Aug 10, I started making soil blocks and planting seeds as I went a long. I think I have 13 trays, each with 28 blocks. I planted things like spinach, mustard, broccoli, lettuce, carrots, fennel, arugula, radish, bok choy, mache, sorrel .. you get the idea, lots of greens. When it comes time for the summer veggies to reside in the compost pile (October-ish), I'll put the blocks in the garden. It is what I have to do with limited space. I'll also cover my beds with floating row cover for a few weeks or so, and then I'll put up the plastic tunnels probably around November .. depends on the weather. Zone 5, but it has been known to snow as early as Sept 3 in the Denver area. The whole thing keeps me on edge. But the plan is to keep eating fresh greens through the winter.
Thanks for so much info. You make it appear easy enough to help me try.
My friends and I just discovered your channel and Love it very much! We are In Vancouver, BC, Canada. We have used many of your tips successfully! Thanks
Glad to hear this. I accidentally planted tomatoes about a month ago.
Thanks Luke. Your Garden is wonderful. I will be putting in Pea's, carrots, cabbage, spinach, beets. Im in NC so frost is late in the season most years.
Really appreciate your earnest advice, thank you! Am looking to plant my first ever fall garden and will definitely be planting carrots now (among other things) thanks to you!
My fall garden will be full of kale and spinach varieties as well as collards, turnips and, perhaps, beets. I will also plant lettuce and arugula to harvest before frost. Cabbage also does very well -- unless, of course, we have an ice storm of multiple days of really, really cold weather. I typically have kale, spinach, collards and turnips throughout the winter. I will let the cabbages grown until a deep freeze warming (which we don't often get in my part of Arkansas.).
I plant carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, turnips, mustard greens, radish, onions, beets, spinach. Swiss chard for the 1st time to try it because I have never eaten it before. I wanted to grow some peas, but I have to go get the seeds.
Great video, I just started some tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and radish indoors, Im bringing them outside next week
I'm with you in Chuck Brogan Maryland. It's the best time of year on the shore.
My fall garden is kale heavy, with school starting soon and husband taking acked lunch, I make 20+ sandwiches each week and most contain fresh kale from just outside my door. I intend to try onions this next year and am now considering starting garlic this year. Thanks for the info and helo from the ann arbor area.
I agree with you. A fall garden is a garden in the fall! Haha goood point on why we should grow carrots, I should give that a try. You look so little next to those huge corn and sunflowers! Lol
Wendi Phan I love your channel
And lukea
Luke's not lukea😃😃😃😃
Today I planted beets, baby bok choy, and a mix of lettuces, my 2nd planting. 2 weeks ago I planted spinach, chard, beets, and radishes. MN zone 4 here, trying to push the season as far as I can.
Ps, thanks for the videos!
In Ontario, I LOVE planting tons of spinach in the fall!
We are in central Wisconsin and we are planting some squash, lettuce, kale, beets, and now carrots! This is our first year doing a fall crop so we arepretty excited to see how it turns out :)
🍁🌿🐝🌻🍁🍂Thank you for the tips!! Growing carrots, collards, tomatoes,squash in my fall garden!! Need to hurry and get started on my lettuce, radishes, broccoli, garlic and poppys!! Have an empty boat eager to fill with some fall garden Love!!
+Penny Coombs Awesome! Way to go!! :)
Your videos are so helpful. I like them all, but do enjoy ones that cover broad topics like this one. My fall garden seedlings experienced some devastation by chickens about a week before I was going to transplant. Planning to build a covered rack for them before spring. What remained, was transplanted along with some starters I purchased. Doing well: purple kohlrabi, broccoli, dinosaur kale, lettuce, onions (sets), garlic,, and some weird kind of collard. Not doing so well: carrots and beets. I can never fertilize my sandy soil enough.
lettuces, kale,turnips and carrots. this is my first fall garden attempt. good luck. Mark
Mark Thomas Hobbies sounds delicious!
Excellent. I just love your enthusiasm and your encouragement. and that sunflower really is beautiful
I'm in north western North Carolina and plant lettuce, garlic, onions, broccoli, spinach, collards and Brussels sprouts. I've never had success with carrots, but may try again.
+Vivian Donovan Keep the soil loose, fluffy, and well fertilized and your carrots will love you.
Vivian.. Have you tried planting carrots in containers?..
No, just raised planting beds.
+Vivian Donovan I would consider containers.. It's how I do mine and I don't think I'll ever plant in ground.. I have a video on my channel of a small harvest I did..
Viv I’m in north western N.C. I would love to know if you plant your broccoli from seeds or plants and when you plant them please.
love your video. Mice do not look around from some high advantage point for signs of carrots just so you know. All critters know you have carrots hate to tell you this but if you grow flagrant flowers or garlic or other things that distract the critters it will help. A rabbit enclosure works too or small wire fence depending where you live. I have had veggie gardens that were never touched by anything and others that were raided all the time by every creature in a 1 mile radius so ........distraction is the key. Keep your Bird feeders away from your garden by as far as you can and where you put your garbage cans should be totally clean and non smelly when you have a veggie garden. Peace !!
We live in MI and are planting a fall garden... thanks again. We are planting what you did and planted cucumbers last week. All Migardener seeds from the website too.😁
great video and ideas! Always wanted to plant fall but didn't know what to plant.
you are a lifesaver been a subscriber for a while and LOVE your videos they've helped me so much!
Good video! I’m inspired and learned a lot! Thank you
Never planted a fall garden. You’ve inspired me! I’m thinking carrots, zucchini and garlic. I live in Zone 8B
I agree the sunflower is the bomb!
Wow, I got the seedlings from my local garden shop and I have snow peas, dwarf beans, cabbage, kale, broccoli and carrot seeds.
I can't wait to cover the bare ground from a very dry and damaging summer here in Australia.
I forgot about pollinator food, so I am thinking russian sage and red poppies would be a nice contrast to each other.
I like my veg garden to sit among flowers and flowers always look pretty surround by green foliage.
i always plant my garlic in October, zone 5 and cover with about 6 inches fall leaves. have always had big beautiful garlic in June-early July harvest. the leaves stay and provide weed suppression in spring. I have planted too early and failed. I have found that it helps to grow the garlic in the ground where there is looser soil and sand and drainage with versus raised beds that freeze too much here in zone 5. I have planted my garlic in areas of poor drainage and heavier clay. they grow moderate size and are a bear to harvest. I love garlic because I plant them, water them till frost 2 times a week and forget about them till spring . I fertilize them once then top the scapes, since I grow mostly hard necks for my zone, water when dry and pull the weeds around them and I get amazing garlic! soooo easy!