What to plant in your fall vegetable garden
So,
what should you put in your fall garden? It's pretty much like
your early spring garden --- full of crucifers, peas, lettuce, and root
crops.
I consider our fall
garden to be a catch-up time. If our early peas only
germinate spottily (like this year), fall is a good time to harvest
more to put in the freezer. This is also a good time to plant
root
crops which you'll keep over the winter in a root cellar.
But the fall garden
isn't just an extra spring season. My gardening mentor likes to
tell me that broccoli actually does better as a fall than as a spring
crop around here since the plants don't like extreme heat when they're
heading up. Many cool weather crops are especially tasty in the
fall after the first frost hits --- spring carrots can be a bit strong
tasting in the middle of summer, but fall carrots are sweet and
delicious.
The fall crop, of
course, is also essential to keep you in fresh food as late in the year
as possible. So don't get overwhelmed by the cucumbers and beans
starting to bear fruit right now --- think toward the fall!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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