Question for 6/10/2018... Starting seeds for fall gardening...

[daylilydude]

Those that have a fall garden when do you start your seeds and what do you generally grow for fall?

[pepperhead212]

Sometime early in September. I don't grow Brussels sprouts any more, or anything else that needs started months before transplanting; I can get those cheap at local farm markets, in the fall. Kohlrabi, and a bunch of those Asian greens (komatsuna, senposai, misome, bok choy, tatsoi, minutina), plus some lettuce is what I grow, and all of them are fast growing.

[paulf]

No fall gardening here. By September both me and the garden are ready for a rest.

[hairymooseknuckles]

Just a few tomatoes this year. I'm pretty beat. I wouldn't do the tomatoes if I hadn't already promised a fellow to help with the Dwarf Project.

[pepperhead212]

What, no greens this fall hairymooseknuckles?? I thought that you were addicted!

[hairymooseknuckles]

Jun 10, 2018 11:49:31 GMT -5 pepperhead212 said:

What, no greens this fall hairymooseknuckles ?? I thought that you were addicted!

I am Buddy, but I'm just beat. Maybe a plant or two, but That's about all I can mustard the energy for. 

[brownrexx]

I usually buy a couple of cabbage seedlings at a local greenhouse in the Fall and direct seed a row of peas in the garden in about late July.

Since I discovered Bok Choy this year I may direct seed a few plants under cover in the garden in about August.

I may plant some leaf lettuce and radishes in late August.

I don't start any seeds under lights indoors other than in the spring.

[pepperhead212]

hairymooseknuckles Just think - all you need is one or two each of those plants! lol And if you are interested in bok choy, I can send you a few of those.

[Laura_in_FL]

I haven't made firm plans for the fall and winter gardens yet. I do expect to start seed for fall tomatoes in about a month (to plant out in late August). Usually most or all of the spring peppers will go until hard frost, so their space will be in use until November or December.

I expect I will grow garlic, green onions, green beans, lettuce, greens, broccoli, cilantro, parsley, and cauliflower. Hopefully fall carrots as well.

The Brussels sprouts were fun and delicious last year, but the harvest was small for the amount of space and time required, so I am not sure I will grow them again.

The rest is to be decided, still.

[pondgardener]

Garlic to be planted in mid-October, as well as a cover crop of hairy vetch in some of the planting beds. And possibly a late group of radish that I can cover if we get an early frost.

[spacecase0]

I plant beets and turnips in the fall,
when the weather has fallen into the 80s and 90s and there is about 20 days of weather with high temps in the 80s or more.
around here it then cools off quick from there, and with the plants established, they happily grow in the cooler weather
if I plant them sooner, they go to seed. later and they never get anywhere.

I also plant sugar peas in the fall, once there is no risk of the weather getting into the 90s again is when I plant them, but has to be well before the weather is only into the 60s, some years that does not happen in the fall. and in that case I plant them in early spring in a warm spell (often 2 to 3 months before my last frost).

[whistech]

I am planting broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and green beans this fall. I will start seeds in early September. I grow in raised beds so the beds that aren't needed will be planted with mustard greens to help with the nematodes next spring.

[bestofour]

I want to grow radishes and peas this fall and might try bok choy but don’t know when to plant. Last year it was hot on Halloween.

[spacecase0]

plant bok choy the same time you would turnips (or beets)

[stone]

I planted winter greens last year over and over, getting very little for my efforts... I suspect that the hungry birds were "helping".
Eventually, with the extreme cold snap, "bombogenisis", I planted stuff to replace what I lost... And every seed grew!
Still have kale, turnips, carrots, rutabagas from that January planting.... Getting too hot for most of that... Very unusual spring, cool for here, lots of rain (comparatively), pretty much a normal spring for most people... Once in 25 years, a 'normal' spring....

Of course, the beets and snow peas played out early, didn't get any beets, and got like three pods from the peas...

Gotta plant a winter garden, because I enjoy fresh goodies from the garden.... And... My putting stuff up for later... Consists of me always having something out in the garden.... You can do that in zone 8... And.... I like stuff picked within the last 5 minutes....

[september]

Not enough time for much of anything in a fall garden to mature before frost. The best I can do is keep doing succession lettuce planting during the summer, and have August plantings keep growing for eating into November. If I get my rear in gear and get a plastic hoop cover over the lettuce bed, I can keep it going until night temps get below 23-25F as long as the day temps warm up well. I think mid-December lettuce and spinach was my record, in an abnormally warm year. I've kept carrots in the ground over the winter, but they were not a late planting.