Plant fall gardens
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Check out the timeline of tasks from the August/September issue of Mother Earth News. Look up the date of your first killing frost (FKF), if you don’t already know it, and you’re ready to go!
12 – 14 weeks before FKF:
Direct-sow last plantings of fast-maturing, warm-season vegetables such as snap beans, cucumbers, and summer squash. Also sow parsnips and rutabagas, and begin planting cilantro, lettuce, and radishes. Start cabbage family seedlings indoors, and set out the seedlings as promptly as possible. In climates with long autumns, plant celery, bulb fennel, and parsley.
10 – 12 weeks before FKF:
Set out broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, and cauliflower seedlings, along with celery, bulb fennel, and parsley. Direct-sow beets, carrots, collards, leeks, and scallions, along with more lettuce and radishes. In some areas, even fast-maturing peas and potatoes will do well in the fall garden.
8 – 10 weeks before FKF:
Direct-sow arugula, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, turnips, spinach, mustard, pac choi, tatsoi, and other Asian greens. Sow more lettuce and radishes, including daikons.
6 – 8 weeks before FKF:
Make a final sowing of spinach along with mache (lamb’s lettuce), which matches spinach for super winter-hardiness. (In most regions, you can expect to enjoy these crops in your Christmas salads!) Make a final sowing of lettuce beneath a protective tunnel or frame.
On or around your FKF date:
Every fall garden should include garlic and shallots. If you love onions, be sure to try multiplying onions and perennial “nest” onions.
Read the whole article by Barbara Pleasant here for six steps to a successful fall garden.
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