Even though much of September is technically summer – just the fact that August is over makes me feel like fall is already here. It probably has something to do with wanting relief from the heat of summer 
Well, it may still be summer, BUT it is time to get your fall vegetable garden planted if you live in zones 5 and up.
Earlier this week, we talked about how to get your soil ready for planting in “Preparing Your Fall Vegetable Garden”.
This weekend, I will head out to the nursery for compost and manure to add to my vegetable gardens. Once my soil is ready, I will start planting vegetable seeds.
Before you start planting, you need to know when to plant for your zone. Here is a link that will guide you to a list of vegetables along with their planting dates organized by planting zone. If you don’t know what zone you live in, there is a place to enter your zip code which will tell you what zone you live in.
What will you plant this year in your fall vegetable garden?
This is what I have planned for my garden…
Broccoli (a few days old)
Spinach
I will be enjoying this all winter and spring!
Young carrots (before thinning them out)
Green Onions (just sprouted)
Garlic (planted from individual garlic cloves)
*You can read how I planted my garlic last year – “Grow Your Own Garlic”.
Leaf Lettuce seedlings
This first planting will provide enough lettuce through January, when I will plant new lettuce seeds.
Cauliflower
I plant ALL of my vegetables from seed, except for cauliflower (which can be hard to grow from seed) and garlic (which I grow from individual garlic cloves).
Of course, these are just a sampling of what kinds of vegetables you can grow in the fall. You may want to include asparagus, beets, cabbage, collards, onions, radishes and turnips.
Once you taste vegetables, fresh from your garden, you’ll be hooked!
What will you plant in your vegetable garden this fall?
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So far, my green bush beans are in and just starting to flower, tomatoes are in (new: Goliath, Black Krim, Early Girl, a revived and exploding cherry or grape tomato, plus 2 or 3 woe-be-gotten stragglers from the Spring garden (Black Cherry and ?????). My Red Sails lettuce from the nursery is also in. My seedling are sprouted in my windowsill and will go out in a few more days: peacock broccoli/kale hybrid, Swiss chard, perpetual chard, winter giant spinach, Marvel of 4-Seasons winter lettuce, and Winter Density lettuce. I always try a few new things each year–thus, the broccoli/kale and winter lettuces. I’ve grown lots of spinach here in the Spring, but this is a first for winter spinach. OK, you motivated me—my radish, baby carrots and parsnips seeds just went in, as did my garlic. If I had known when and how easy garlic was before, I would have been growing it all along!!!
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