September Garden Tour & Fall Plans | Sweet Potato Harvest + Cover Crops

Come along for a full tour of my garden this September as I start planning for the fall season! In this video, I’ll walk you through what’s growing, what’s coming out, and how I’m preparing for cooler weather crops.

🌱 Highlights in this tour:

Harvesting a few sweet potatoes to see how they’re doing underground

Talking about the importance of cover crops for soil health

Planning ahead for fall plantings and crop rotation

A full look at the garden as we transition from summer to fall

September is the perfect time to reset, plan, and set the stage for a productive fall garden. Join me for some inspiration and ideas to kick off your own fall planting!

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Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. On today’s video, I was out here in the backyard garden. Just figured I’d bring y’all along with me. Let’s check out a few things, see what I got going on. Kind of go over a little plan for where I’m planting everything for my fall garden. Let’s see how the fall seedlings are doing so far. So, let’s go check them out. All right, so we got some pretty decent growth going on over here. We got our collars back here. All these are collards. They’re looking really, really good. Um, I did have some bug pressure on there. So, I sprayed them this morning with some with some BT and uh that should take care of that. Over here, I got some more collards, uh, some cabbage, broccoli, broccoli, and two kale right here. They are getting close. See if I can get this up out of here. Y’all see that? Yeah. See all all those roots? They’re getting close. Let’s check this one out. All right, you guys see that one? See, the roots aren’t completely filled out yet. So, um, they’re not quite ready to transplant. Let me get one of these. Uh, see what what I like is for if I can pull it up by by this part right here and the whole thing comes up out of there, it’s ready. Um, so I I can’t do that yet, but I still want to get one of these up out of here so I can see what it looks like. All right, we’re still about the same. See that? Not ready yet. Now, you could transplant that, but I like it to be a little bit stronger of a of a transplant, more vigorous vines there to uh transplant it out. But we still got plenty of time. I did replant my lettuce. Bring y’all in here so y’all can see that. So, got much better germination inside the house. And so, now I’ll just sit it out here since they’ve already germinated and uh let them hang out out here while we get in this cool weather. If the temperatures get back up in the 90s again, I’ll probably just take them back in the house. But they’re looking good. I don’t know why I still got these peppers here. And then these uh this is the top bunch that I didn’t have um the day that I was planting these over here. I didn’t have that one, so I had to wait for it to get in. So, they all germinated real nice. I’m really looking forward to trying those. And then yesterday, I planted some pock choy. It’s two different types. This is a dwarf pock choy, and this is a regular pock choy. So, um, or pack choy, pac choy, however you choy. That’s that’s what that is. So, they are looking good. Oh. Oh. Oh, let me tell you something. Let let me get on screen. All right, y’all. So, Survival Garden Seeds, since I’m talking about seeds and starting seeds and all that stuff, they have a huge Labor Day sale going on right now. And it literally blew my mind. I saw on it today. They sent a email and um they have this thing called a mystery bag. Okay. And in the mystery bag you get how many? I want to say it’s 20 different seed packs. Is it 20? Let me check. Yeah. So, it’s 20 different seed packets, okay, for $9.99. That’s 50 cent a packet. Now, on their website, this uh mystery uh bag normally goes for $69.99 and they selling them for this weekend for $9.99. That’s $60 off on 20 packs of seeds, y’all. Hey, let me tell you. Let me tell you something. I jumped on that joker real quick with both feet. I sure enough did. I jumped on that joker with both feet quick, man. You know I got bad knees, too. So, hey, you know it was something serious. But, uh, I had to let y’all know about that. Survival Garden Seeds has a huge sale going on this weekend. Um yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You gota you gota you just Yeah. If you like seeds like me and see the thing about the mystery bag, you don’t know what’s coming, you know, and for somebody like me, I love that because I get to try new things. It’s probably going to be something that I haven’t tried before and um I get to try something new. I don’t know if it’s fall specific. I don’t know if some of it’s going to be stuff that I got to wait till the spring, but I don’t care. Um, this is one of those kind of deals that you just kind of just got to jump on. So, um, anybody interested, you know, I got my link down below. Check them out. My discount code does not work on sale prices on uh, their website. So, only regular prices will my discount code work. But if you use my link, they’ll still send me a little small uh commission for uh sending you guys over there. So, hey, check them out. Now, I saw this the other day. Look at that. Y’all know what that is? Those are hops. I planted hops this year for the first time. And uh I still haven’t figured out how I’m going to use them yet. I got to check with my doctor first before I before I mess with them. But I noticed I was looking for them. I was like, man, I don’t see none. It’s taking forever cuz this has been growing since uh since early early spring and uh it kind of took over the greenhouse, which I’m okay with that. I don’t mind if it go on over, you know. But, uh, I got some hops in there. So, we’re gonna be figuring that out. I know it’s supposed to be good for anxiety. Um, which was something that I was looking forward to. So, if y’all have ever used hops for medicinal purposes, let me know. Not to make no dag on beer now. All right. Y’all know I didn’t gave up on the beer. So, look at that. That’s a big one back here. Y’all see that one? That joke a big some big ones back in there, too. So, if y’all ever use hops for medicinal purposes, I think I might be able to make a tincture out of them. Um, but I still got to check with my doctor first to make sure that we ain’t going to have no uh complications there. And y’all look at this thing. That dag on tumeric. Look at that. This is beautiful. Now, only two of them are this big like this. But these leaves are massive. Big old leaves. Look at that thing. This one right here is really, really big. Let me try to get over here. Look how big that leaf is. So, this is my first year growing uh turmeric. And hey, I just know I got to harvest them before the frost. These are some more over here. They’re a little bit smaller. Let me get back in here. Um but they still looking good though. Now, these right here are really small. These it’s it’s turmeric as well. Um, they just now came up out of the ground. So, um, I don’t know how well they’ll do, but uh, I should have a good decent amount uh, at the end of the year and I’ll be able to use some and save some for replanting. Now, this is my ginger. Look at that. I never grown ginger before. Now, this one looks okay, but this one right here, I really like it. Look at that. So, I know I got to harvest that before the first frost. And I learned that I can use the leaves on this as well to make like a tea from them. Uh, so I got to do some more research on that and whatnot, but I’m definitely going to use this as much as I possibly can. Now, on on the ginger, I only have this one and that one. And so, I want to save as much as I can for next year so I can plant it and and get more ginger, you know? So, um, I don’t know how much I’mma actually use the ginger root this year. Look at that thing. That’s uh Tabasco peppers. I harvested off of it today and made me some uh pepper sauce. There was a channel um Cowbell Farm, I I think is the name of her channel. I will put it up on the screen. But she did a a a pepper sauce video that I was watching today and I said, “Man, I got some of them.” So, let me try to make some pepper sauce. And uh Hey, I made some. We We’ll see how it tastes. I got another one right up there. Oh, let me show you these up here, too. I ain’t showing you these. So, these probably ain’t going to do anything. These are my uh peppers. is the uh what you call them? Um I can’t remember the name of them, but I’ll throw it up on the screen, but they probably won’t amount to nothing. These right here have been growing and they’ve been the most successful that I’ve done with peppers as far as growing them in grow bags. Y’all know I’m not good at grow bags if you’ve been around for a while, but I have been harvesting off of here. We got a bunch of peppers on this one. I’m going to be harvesting off of here real real soon. And these are mini, so they won’t get much bigger than that. So, I’m going to have to harvest some of those real quick. These right here are a cayenne type pepper. Looking beautiful. And these won’t get like the big cayenne like the other ones that I had the other day. Um, and this Bomb never really did anything. If y’all got any uh tips about Bomb, y’all let me know. I mean, I like the way it looks, but I never saw any flowers on it. Now, this is some more um turmeric that I’m growing in this raised bed. And I got some down here on this end. that it didn’t amount to much, but it just now came up. So, we’ll see. We’ll see how it does. My whole wall of beans right there. Now, I’m just growing these beans for seed. Okay. Same thing with those beans right there. I’m just growing them for seed. Every once in a while I get a dry packet off of them and take them in the house and shell them. Um, I still ain’t harvested this mulling yet. I need I need to do that today. I need to do that today. Now, check out this cover crop. I showed this in a different video and people were asking um I don’t know if it was in the video or on uh Facebook about uh uh weed suppression in it. And so I came over here and looked the other day and y’all looked down in here. I’m going try to take y’all down in here. Y’all see down in there? Not one weed. Let’s see if it’s kind of There’s not one weed down in there. And that’s what this does. It It has this big canopy over it. See if I can get you over here. There we go. Look at that. Not one weed. Y’all see that? And uh it has this big old canopy over top of it and it keeps the sun from penetrating and it suppresses all those weeds down there. So this whole area right here when I pull this out of here is going to be completely weed free. And I’ve got a couple different options with the um with the cover crop here. Now, I could pull them and give this to the chickens. The chickens will love it. Absolutely love it. Um I could just cover them. Just cover it with a tarp. Any tarp will do. You can get a a like a hardware store tarp. You can get a salage tarp. Um any kind of tarp like that will do. It has to be dark though. And um it will kill all this off and then I can pull that back and plant into it and a lot of that organic matter will go back into the soil. Uh I haven’t decided. I think I’m going to pull it. I think I’m going to pull it because it’s still getting a benefit of the weed suppression and the uh the nitrogen that’s being fixed from the atmosphere down into the into the soil. So, um I’m uh I’m probably going to let that go for a while. I don’t know exactly. I can’t remember when I’m going to have to plant in this bed right here. Here, but um I’ll get it pulled before I have to plant in it. That’s for sure. And I think that’s probably why I’mma pull it instead of I think that’s why I decided to pull it and not cover it because I’m going to need to plant in it for the fall. All right, let’s see if we can get down in here and find out where the next vine is. [Music] Oh, that’s off to the next one. This is off of the next one. But that’s a nice one. Look at that. And this is off of the one that I was digging. Wow. Can’t hold them. See them? That’s not bad. One of them split. Uh, I’ll take these in the house to for dinner. I mean, I won’t eat all of them for dinner, but you know what I mean. Cuz that’s not too bad. That’s not too bad at all. Like I said, this one is on a different one. But all of those on one. That’s a nice size right there. Some decent sized ones. So, [Music] I guess at any time now I can go ahead and harvest this. So, I’m not really concerned about this bed just yet cuz I think I’m going to plant onions over here. I’m either planting onions here or there. Um, raised beds are getting onions and garlic. So, so this one’s probably going to be garlic. This one’s probably going to be onions. So, I still got till November before I need this bed for anything. So, probably at least by mid October, these need to be out. mid to late October. These need to be out and then I can uh amend the bed and get it ready for for onions. Um onions are a heavy feeder. So I’m going to put a lot of rabbit manure in here, chicken composted chicken manure in here and just get it get it working. And then by mid November, um, I’ll be able to to put the onions in here. So, I got to redeem myself from last year, you know. Hey, I done told the story before, but I got to tell it again. I was out for the count. I’m talking about George Foreman hit me with a left hook. Took me out last year, man. I was 10 toes up. I didn’t move out of that bed for about two longer than two weeks. It was going on three weeks and uh but uh I didn’t get my onions in in time, you know. So the whole time I was thinking about them, too. That’s that’s how that’s how dudes be, you know. You be on your dag on death bed and you worried about some dag onions going in the ground. Uh but but um good Lord willing, this year we ain’t gonna have that issue and uh I’ll be able to get my onions in on time and I’ll be able to grow the crop of onions that I know I can grow. Um yeah, let’s check out this over here real quick. All right, so over here we got um the beans that I planted the other day. They’re looking good. Transplant shock is over and they’re going to start grabbing onto this Hordonova trellis here soon. This one right here already didn’t started. You see that? It’s already grabbing onto the trellis. All you got to do is just push it in there. Just like that. Just get it started. Just here. Let me see. Maybe put it over there like that. There you go. And it’ll it’ll it’ll do the rest. All right. So, I still got two months left on those. I got me some uh some uh volunteer tomatoes. I’m probably going to have a whole bunch of them cuz if y’all remember, I let them jo see See, look, there’s another one right there. I let them jokers die and uh fall to the ground right here. So, hey, I don’t mind. I don’t mind at all. Now, this one right here, let me get on this side. Get the sun hitting it. All right. So, this plant I’ve never grown before. It is a birdhouse gourd is what it’s called. Now, I got about two more months to get something from it. And uh we’ll see saw earlier today. Where did I see it at? Right here. Okay. So, I think we’re starting to get a flower there, but that may be a male flower cuz I don’t see nothing behind it there. Um, like I don’t see see I see another flower right there, but I don’t see the classic little oval shape behind it to uh show that it’s a female flower. But I’ve never grown these before. Getting another something coming off right there. So anyway, we got two months on that to see if it produces anything. And uh I’ll be real excited to to see if it if uh if I get some gourds cuz I would love to make birdhouses out of them. I think that would be pretty damw old pumpkin. Good old Simol pumpkin. I only got one. I think I planted two, but only one made it. And it’s looking amazing. It’s looking really, really good. And um like I said, I got two more months on it. So hopefully I get me a couple simol pumpkins up through here. And I think I got something else growing right here. I don’t think that’s the same. Yeah, that’s a different plant right there. So, um, that may be the other simol pumpkin. That may be the other simol. We’ll find out. I I I think that it is cuz I planted this one first and then the one down here died and I planted another one in it spot. So, that’s why it’s shorter and smaller. But, uh, this whole this whole thing right here is gonna be covered up with vines here in a little bit, probably in the next couple weeks. But, let me give you an overview of what my plan is. So, I’m already thinking for the spring. So, I have this uh trellis right here, and I got three more of these that I’m going to bring up here. I’mma put one here, here, and one here. Okay. And on those, I’m growing beans next year. Okay. Pole beans. I’m growing four rows of pole beans. I’m going to grow enough to can and I’m going to grow enough to save seeds from. So, next year, that’s what’s going right here. I haven’t figured out next year going this way yet. But this year, right here, I’m putting collars. Right here, I’m putting collards right here and right here. I got four different types of collards. I’m going to do four rows of collards down through here. I know you can’t really see the rows very well right now, but trust me, they are here. So, I’mma let the beans go for right now, and then I’m up in the air. I’m probably going to plant something here uh for the for the winter cuz these beans will stay here until the first frost and then after the first frost I’ll transplant in a winter hardy uh something right there. I haven’t decided. I got plenty of time to decide that. So, but I’m doing collards collards collards and collards for sure. And then the okra is going to come up in November as well. And then on the okra, on this okra row right here, I’mma do uh cabbage down through here. This flower row, I’mma do um kale. I got another kale that I’m going to do in this row that’s got the cover crop in. One of these dag on days, I got to get out here and uh I got to get these strawberries up. I’mma reuse the ones I can. Um, but I got to get the strawberries up out of here because I want to plant a crop in this row right here. So, I’m going to put um kale down this row as well. So, it’s going to be cabbage, kale, kale, and kale cuz I got two or three different types of kale. And then up here, we’re going to do broccoli. I’mma do two rows of broccoli all the way down. Uh I got two different types of broccoli. I’m going to do cauliflower in this one right here. And I’m going to do uh what was that third one that I was doing? I got cauliflower. I got kale. Kale. kale. That’s the three kales. They going back there. I got the two broccololis. I got the cabbage. Oh, hold on. One, two, three, four. I got another um collard that I need to put. So, that that other collard is going to go right there in that row. And then that row is going to be cauliflower. And then um all of the lettuce is going to be interplanted all through the garden. It’s going to go wherever I can find a spot for it. I got that little raised bed right over there that I can put something in. So I could put a lot of lettuce in there. But yeah, I think that’s going to be the plan for the fall. I do have some other things that I’m still going to be starting seeds for. And it’s going to be small stuff though. It’s stuff that like greens and stuff like that that I can put either back here in this uh overgrown bed right here. I can put greens in here. And I can put greens in here. I’ll probably end up cleaning this out. I got to clean this out soon. I really do. It It got away from me this year. This This one and this one right here really got away from me this year. But all the rest of them I kind of kept up with. But uh yeah, so that’s that’s kind of the plan and that’s the that’s the backyard garden. So, it’s kind of a backyard garden tour and a plan for the future and what’s new and all wrapped up into one. Well, that’s all I got for you in this video. Hope you enjoyed seeing the backyard garden. We got a little sweet potato harvest going on right there. Um, got to show you the seedlings. Oh, and don’t forget survival garden seeds. big sale, huge sale. Check them out. Um, it’s for Labor Day weekend, so I think it’s only through Monday. All right? So, take advantage of it while you can. My philosophy is, hey, you can’t ever have enough seeds because I mean, yes, seeds do go bad over time, but man, one one seed can make a thousand more seeds, you know, a million more seeds, you know. So, I’m all about uh stocking up on some seeds, especially uh those ones from Survival Garden Seeds cuz they do have a better shelf life than most cuz they’re uh they’re heirloom and um you can kind of hold on to those a little bit longer than you would some uh some hybrids or something like that. But anyway, I appreciate y’all being here. Um, I I I know I always say that, but y’all, I was sitting down today and I was thinking and I was like I was looking at, you know, kind of what everything I got going on. And you know, I got my I got my fall uh planting guide um out there on my website right now. And uh I’ve had quite a few people uh purchased that and give me feedback on it. And um you know that I would have never come up with that if it wasn’t for this community and me, you know, uh in this position. So um I really appreciate you guys more than you’ll ever ever know. And then on days like today, I was kind of in a little funk. And uh I said, “Man, I need to talk to my people.” And I’m telling you, whenever I talk to my people, man, I get happy. I get to smiling. I get to laughing and joking and stuff. So, um yeah, you know, I really appreciate you guys. Um this is more than just uh me teaching something or me showing you something. This is definitely a uh a fellowship and um even though I’m on this side of the camera and you’re on that side of the TV or the phone or whatever you’re watching me on um I feel like you’re right here. I feel like you’re right here and I’m walking you through my garden and uh you know it feels like I got somebody here with me that’s uh right here, you know. So, um, when I say at the end of all these videos that I appreciate you guys, I don’t really go in depth on it, but just know that I really, really, absolutely appreciate you guys, uh, more than you’ll ever, ever know. So, um, well, that’s all I got for you. I was about to say I appreciate you. Oh, man. But hey, I’ll see you in the next video.