As the summer heat starts to fade, it’s time to start thinking about my fall garden plans! In this video, I’m sharing my strategies for preparing my raised bed of garden for the cooler months ahead. From seed starting in my greenhouse to planting vegetable seeds at the right time, I’m covering it all. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting out, you’ll want to tune in for these valuable tips on how to garden in the fall. By the end of this video, you’ll be ready to tackle your own fall garden and enjoy a bountiful harvest.
Thanks for watching. As always, stay safe.
Lula
Heat. Heat. Hey everyone. In today’s video, I’m going to take you on a tour of my garden. I want to show you what’s still growing in the garden. I do have to transplant a pepper plant that is growing in one of my raised garden beds. I’m going to take that up and put it in a grow bag, a fabric grow bag. I had about five pepper plants growing in one of my raised garden beds, but I decided that I wanted to take them up because I really need that space for some of my fall crops. Now, you know, pepper plants are going to last right up until the frost kills them, but I want to get my fall plants in that area before then. I have some soil that I started mixing up. It is um top soil, heat moss, and some compost. going to plant my pepper plant in a grow bag using that soil. Now, I do plan to sew some seeds today. You can direct sew radishes, carrots, beets, and things like that. I want to show you some seed seedlings that I started for my fall garden and I got them growing in my greenhouse. So, this bed here in the front to the right was a bed where I planted some fairy tale pumpkins. They did really, really well. I planted them on the end. The only thing is they ran all around the bed and I could barely walk around there. I had it planted with some onions. So, I will not do that again. I will make sure I plant any vining crops in an area where I don’t have to do a lot of walking. Now, over here to the left is a second round of San Marzano tomatoes. I really love these tomatoes because they um have a low water content. They’re good for making sauces. I have some more planted right over here. And as you can see, they are looking really rough. So, I’m going to take these out. Um, I still have a few of them left that I’m going to pour today. Here. Um, these are really beefy tomatoes. Um, this is a small version of what they really look like. They as they die out, they start getting a little bit smaller and thinner, but um, they don’t have a lot of seeds in them, which makes them really good for making paste and tomato sauces and things like that. So, I’m going to take everything out of here and I am going to be uh getting this area ready for another crop. I did plant about three or four different varieties of carrots and I got them planted in this particular bed here. I I have harvested quite a few of them and I still have plenty left. I may come back in and plant some more. Now, I had my sweet peppers planted in here. I did take a lot of them out. I’m taking this one out today. I know they say it can stunt the growth, but I really need this area for something else. Now, I read that transplanting established peppers don’t do as well, but here’s some that I transplanted, and they seem to be doing pretty good. So, in this bed, I had leafy greens. I had some a lot of Swiss chard. I had some more squash, and it was just running around the bed just like the other one. I just got tired of it, and I took it out. Now over in the other bed where I had a tomatoes, I also planted some uh squash, some wall wam butternut squash, and it did really well. This is a volunteer bean that I had that was coming up from last year. So I accidentally c cut it and so this is like a bean that goes to nowhere because there’s it’s not in the soil at this point. So I really need to take this out. Um but my butternut squashes are doing really well. Better than I expected them to do. Actually, this is the first time I got this amount of butternut squash because I really love butternut squash. And it’s not really time to harvest this right now, but I am going to come back and do a video about u when I do harvest these butternut squash. And as you can see, some of them are really short and stumpy. And some of them are more the traditional long shape um of of a butternut squash. So I noticed that when I increased my watering that a lot of them started getting more longer um instead of being short and stumpy. So I am just so happy with this har this um harvest of butternut squash that I have gotten from these two plants. Now I had one in this container. I have another one on the other side in another container that is going over this arch trellis. So, um, and then if you look, I have some butternut squash that are growing on the ground and they have actually circled. I mean, they are running on the ground, which is great because they are um rooting into the soil and that is giving them the nourishment they need in order to continue growing. Even if they died out in the container bed, they still have nourishment from the soil to help them to produce more squash. Now you guys, I have leaks in this container. It’s in the container with the butternut squash. I have leaks um and I also have some bunching onions that I planted. Just a few of them on the about four or five of them on the edge. These bunch um leaks can be harvested right now. Um, and matter of fact, I’m going to harvest them soon because I got to get this area cleaned out for something else. I just got my original leaf planter. I mean, the original uh green stock here. I’m going to put some leafy greens in this green stock. Um, now the area back here is an area. Just just don’t look at it too hard. I got to clean this out. Have asparagus growing here, but I’m really not happy with the asparagus here. And I’m just going to really clean all this stuff out. And I think this is going to be the area where my green stalks are going to go. Do have another um I think it’s a Perkins long uh okra plant. And this was Alabama red okra plant over here. This is like the eggplant section, bean section/bean section. I have the Oswall eggplants. I have the Casper eggplants, which are the white oblong um colored uh shaped uh eggplants. And then I have the Rosita eggplant as well. You might can see a few of the white ones here. And those are some small Caspers that are growing. The Rosettas, I’ve never tried them before, but I do have one growing here that needs to be harvested. So, I’m going to harvest that. I have some little babies coming, small ones coming. Then I have the uh Chinese I guess there noodle beans here. I’m not the juryy’s out on how I like the Chinese noodle beans, you know. So, I’m really I don’t think I’m a real big fan of the noodle beans. Over here is where I had some tomatoes planted and they just the heat just killed them out and they died out. So, I’m going to plant some Brussels in this area here. I do have a squash growing here and it is called the black futsu squash. Um, when it’s growing, let me show you the color. It’s like a green, dark green color. And then over time, it’s going to change colors. It’s not going to get too much bigger than this from what I’ve read. I’ve never grown this before. Once it starts to get ready to for harvesting, it’s going to turn another color. And I did harvest some. So, let me show you what color they are. So, these are some black futus that I harvested uh recently. And you can see how the color changed to this beautiful color, orangey, you know, like um tangerine type color. And it’s just got the the lines and the grooves in it. And I heard that it tastes like a cross between a pumpkin and a a sweet potato. So, I don’t know. I haven’t tried it, but I will let you know how it goes. And so, anyway, looking forward to trying those. Now, in this raised bed container, I planted about three scalloped squash plants. And I kind of regret that I planted them in a way. They’re doing really, really well. But, um, I really need this space for some of my winter crops. And when I planted it, I really hadn’t planned it out, I guess, as well as I should have. I do have some beans growing here. Now, these are what we refer to as a speckled butter bean, but there’s another name for these beans. I can’t remember it now, but I will put it on the screen. And the thing about the speckled butter beans is that um they are like a butter bean actually. They just have little speckles on them, but they are so absolutely delicious. Now, over here, I have some rutabas. I have some turnups planted here that I all that I started from seed. You might can see some of them. And um some of them you might can’t see. Now these two here were ones that I planted in a seed tray and they really started becoming really leggy and it was really difficult to for me to see that they would do anything. So I just transplanted the two that looked the best. But then I decided I would just come in and just direct sew all of the turnups and all of the rutaggas. So, this is a purple top um rut uh rutagga. They do have a purple top turnup and I have a gold rush turnup and I have a shogun turnup as well as a purple top turnup. And then I have the non I want to say noon yellow um rutagga. So anyway, I’m hoping that they’re going to do well here, but they seem like they’re coming in pretty well. So, got to just keep them watered and see how it goes. Okay. Now, this stem leads to something called the blue hover squash. And this squash dates back to 1798. It is an irregular shaped squash. It is um wait till you see it. It looks dead right here. And um I could kick myself because the stems um grew over the side of the container and just grew all down the side in the middle of these containers here and on the other side. And I ended up accidentally cutting the other side. But I found that I had two over here. And you can see that it is a irregular shaped um squash and it it turns a bluish um gray color. You can use it in soup, stews, you can bake it, all kinds of things. So, I can’t wait till next year so that I can grow some more. They really are very um viny plants and if you can get an area where the vine can just do its thing, then you will end up with some good squash. I really didn’t have do a lot to this squash. But, um I’m just so excited. I know I would have had plenty more had I not accidentally, you know, just cut it out. I was trying to thin it out and I ended up killing out the other part of it because it had actually grew around the other side of the container. So, in the final container, I have um a pickling cucumber. I have another squash that you can see through um the at the other end. And that’s all that’s really growing in this container bed. Now, this is a pickling cucumber. As I mentioned, it’s looking a little rough around the edges. So, I’m hoping I’ll get something off of here before it dies out. So, we’ll see how it goes. Um really, I did harvest quite a few cucumbers already. Now, below here, I have in a raised in a um grow bag. I have a sugar baby watermelon, and it seems like it’s doing pretty good so far. I do have some little babies that are coming as you can see here. show you. Yep, I have a few of them. So, I’m hoping that they’ll do something and I’ll get some sugar baby watermelon. Now, here in the greenhouse, I said I wanted to show you some of the plants that um I have started from seed over here in these containers. I try to have everything together. This these are kabies. This is the delicacy white kabis. This is something called this is a kale. is called the dazzling blue kale. Over here, these are cabbages. This is called the Brunswick cabbage. U Wakefield cabbage. And what is this one here? I put these little tags in here. And you know those little um binders that you can buy from the store for your children? It’s It doesn’t have a ringer in it, but you It’s got like two pockets in there. So, I took those because they made out of this plastic, this kind of heavy type of a plastic. Cut them up in little strips like this and that way I can write the names of my plants on. So, they only cost a dollar. So, that’s what I use them for. This is the Copenhagen cabbage. These are broccoli. This is called a early purple broccoli. So, this one I’m hoping is going to overwinter and it’s just going to last me into next year. I read that they do better when they overwinter. This is a broccoli. This is the Wam broccoli. Yeah, all of these are beets right here. Albino beets. Chacogia. I hope I’m pronouncing it right. Beets. Detroit golden beets here. Some of them didn’t germinate as well. And those those are my favorite. I love the Detroit golden beets. The red Russian kale here. here and those. But this is a loinado kale right here. Um they call it dinosaur kale. And then I have some lettuce here. Lettuce. I do have some other lettuce here. I know I have some Roma growing. So all of these are cauliflowers. So this is the robber cauliflower here. Um and this is the um what they call the clementine cauliflower. Those are the orange ones. And I grew some one year. I’ll put it on the screen so you can see what it looks like. It is so good. It is delicious. It’s pretty and delicious. And then this is the um purple cauliflower called the V violeta Italia. Violeta Italia cauliflower. And this one is um another clementine. This is another orange one. And this is the Romanesco. I never had that one before, but it’s pretty. It’s shaped really odd. Um, and this one is another purple cauliflower. This one is called the purple of Sicily cauliflower. It’s doing really well. Oh, this is the red acre cabbage here. And this is a purple Vienna cauliflower. You can see that it is a little purple right there. The stems are purple. So, all of these are kabies. And of course, you can look at this and tell that this is a kale. This is the blue curl scotch kale growing there and there. What is this here? I can’t remember. Um, this is a brussel. So, this is the Long Island improved brussel sprouts right there. And you know the area in my garden where I had the turnups and the um the um rutagas growing, that’s what I’m going to put in there. I’m going to put the kobies in there. And what is this? These are collard greens here. These are the Morris heading collard greens right here. And I think this is another Morris heading collard green right here. So that’s one. And I had another one as well. So I got about um 18 of those. This is some parsley that I started less than a month ago. And this is some oregano. Greek Greek oregano that I started from seed. This is chingula. This is some ivory. What is it? Ivory white. No, this is artichokes. actually wasn’t sure if I could really wanted to start some artich chokes, but this is called the ivory white artichokes. Never grown artich chokes before. So, not sure how they’re going to do. And of course, this is some sage that I started that the same time I started the oregano and the parsley. This is kindula. I do have some radishios. Radishios in here. And here, I don’t know what I was thinking, but I planted some of those mini eggplants that can go into um a container. The eggplants don’t get as big as the other contain as the other eggplants do. So, I’m thinking that I might get a few of those little eggplants, miniature eggplants, um before the frost comes. So, I have three of those that I planted here. I wasn’t sure if they were going to germinate, but they did. This little plant right here, let’s see what that is. This is cumin. This is a spice. So, I wasn’t sure what that was going to do. It did come up. I had three of them, but it looks like only one came up. Kindula again. And then over here, I have um black mustard. And then right here, what is that? I don’t know. This is sorrel. This is the large leaf sorrel. This is the bright light Swiss chard. And then I have some more growing right here. Let’s see what this is. This is the red rubis. No, red rhubarb switch chard. So that’s going to get to be pretty big. I love that bright red color of this uh chard. And this is the same thing. So all of these are the red rhubarb Swiss chard. And this is that container that I planted these succulents in. And this is what they look like. They still surviving even to this day. I got them in the greenhouse here and they seem to be doing okay. Got my little thermostat down here and it’s showing that my temperature in the greenhouse right now is 76° Fahrenheit. And then here I want to say these are some red rhubles. So these are Brussels sprouts. So I got some of the green ones, but I thought the purple ones really look pretty. And of course, I can never have enough um beets. So, these are the cylinder beets. I had actually ran out of beet seeds, the cylinder beet seeds. So, I ordered some more. And that’s what those are. And then these are also beets. These are the bull’s blood beets. Some more succulents right there. But anyway, that’s all I have growing in the greenhouse here. I am going to plant some more seeds today. So, now I mentioned in the greenhouse that I’m going to be sewing some more seeds today. Um, and I’m going to be sewing them in these three sale uh seed tray packs. Thought I had some bigger uh seed trays, but these are the ones I’m going to be using today because that’s all I have left cuz I planted so many plants already and I went through every seed tray that I had. I’m just going to fill these up with soil and then I’m going to get started planting the um seeds. I started really switching over to the cocoa core because I like the germination rate that I get from um sewing my seeds in there versus the seed starting mix. So, they do have these bricks and that’s what this was. This was a sea starting brick that I purchased. And um all you do is just add some water to it to get it to um get from that hard consistency to what you see here now. So I’m just going to fill these up water with soap. It’s already a little damp. though from when I added that water to it. Just going to fill them up. I do like to kind of mash down and get some of the air pockets out. Okay, so here is a seed tray that I’m going to be planting my sugar snaps in. And I have a uh tag already made up. So, I’m going to do two of these sugar snap trays. So, these are the sugar snap peas, and these are supposed to be planted 1 and 1/2 in deep. So, I usually just take my finger and just make a hole. I guess you know, if you really want to be precise, you can measure how deep it is, but um I usually put I’m going to put two C’s in there. I don’t know these. I’ve had these seeds for a while. So, I’m one hoping they’ll come up. So, I’m going to put two seeds in there. One don’t come up. Hopefully, the other one will. And then all I do is cover them over. If you’re planting them in your garden, you will plant them the same way, same depth. And then cover them over with the soil mixture. And then I’m going to go back and water these. And as I mentioned, I didn’t wet the soil. Normally what I would do in an instance like this, if I had before I even added any seeds, this soil was dry, I would take my watering can or my watering wand and I would just water, just saturate it. Uh, not overly saturated, but just wet it enough where I know the water went all the way through. Then I will come back and put my hose in there and drop my seeds in like I just did. So these are the sugar snaps. Now I have my sunflower seeds. So I have the evening sun And I have the teddy bear seeds. These are going to be planted at least one inch in depth. Little not going to plant them as deep. And as you plant seeds, you’ll learn just how deep to plant them. You’ll learn the depth. So going to put two in there just in case. Two. I put one in there. Okay. So, just cover these over as well. The snow peas. It says that these should be planted to a depth of 1 and 1/2 in. So that’s how deep we’re going to be planting those. So these are going to go a little bit deeper about like the peas that we had earlier. [Applause] And this is what they look like. So I’m going put two in there. I might be it might be overkill for me to put two, but I’m just um don’t know. Sometimes I have seeds that just don’t germinate. So, we’ll see. And if two comes up, then I can always cut one of them out. And then just cover it up. Cover it up. Just cover it. Make sure it’s pressed down. And those are the snow peas. Now we have the peas. Now, what does it say about the depth? Now, this says 1 in. Okay. So, we just going to go one in deep. These look just like the other ones. So, I put two. I’m going to do is I am going to take these inside and put them under my grow lights. And then once they germinate, then I will come back and put them in the greenhouse. So now I just take a little spray bottle here that I have with just plain water. And I am going to I put my seedlings in a tray here. And all I’m going to do now is just spray them with some water. And not a lot of water, you know, just enough to kind of kind of wet them a little bit, you know. Let’s see if you can see this. just enough to kind of wet the top. Cuz if you spray them with too much water and the soil stays too wet, it’s just going to rot your seeds out and you’re not going to get any germination cuz your seeds are going to be dead. And now I may put a humidity dome over this, one of those clear plastic domes. And I like to put it over my plants, but I don’t leave it up there. When at least half of my plants have germinated in a container, then I will take that seed that dome off. Which is why I another piece of advice I want to say is if you’re going to start seeds, plant like seeds together and that way they’ll all germinate around the same time, especially if you want to keep them under a dome. I don’t know if that makes sense what I’m saying. Let me just repeat that. Um, so if you’re going to plant a bunch of um um say beet seeds or you’re going to plant a bunch of collard greens, plant all your collard green seeds together in one container and then plant your beet seeds together in another container. That way they’ll all germinate around the same time. And that way if you have a dome or you want to put a dome over it, then you can take it off and not worry about those other plants that did not germinate because they’re not from the same um class of plants. If that makes any sense. [Music] Okay, so I got everything mixed up, but I didn’t get enough compost in there like I wanted. So, I am going to try to add some more compost to at least the first 5 to 6 in of the grow bag in the hole. And I’m putting some azamite dust in there. Azamite rock dust in there. Mix it up really good. Hopefully I don’t damage it too bad. Trying to get it out of you down there. I don’t know what that was. There it is. Right there. Take that. Put that in there. Just like that. I’m going to cover this up. [Music] Okay. So, anyway guys, thank you so much for watching my video today. I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you on the next one. Bye-bye.
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