In this video, I share 9 veggies I planted this week that you can start right now in your vegetable garden! These crops make excellent fall garden crops for the upcoming fall gardening season. Your growing season is not over, gardeners! These are some of the best garden vegetables to start in August and get your fall garden growing big!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 9 Vegetables I Started This Week
0:56 Tips Growing Brassicas
3:45 Why Starting Transplants Is Best
4:59 Importance Of Succession Planting
6:04 Protecting From Heat And Frost
7:42 Growing Late Season Basil And Leeks
10:26 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 9 Vegetables I Started This Week
0:56 Tips Growing Brassicas
3:45 Why Starting Transplants Is Best
4:59 Importance Of Succession Planting
6:04 Protecting From Heat And Frost
7:42 Growing Late Season Basil And Leeks
10:26 Adventures With Dale
Enough time for onions? I've sprouted my onions for the southern hemisphere.
Just done this last week and like you most of mine have already germinated. I have also sown over wintering onions that do well here. Great for having a constant supply of onion. Great video as always, thanks.
Thanks for your response, I just became a subscriber. Thanks again.
I live up near Norfolk and try to do things similar to you since we are the same zone 8a. My broccoli and Brussels sprouts have germinated but are growing slowly because I have to keep them in my garage under grow lights.
I was doing so well – SO WELL – I started broccoli, cauliflower, and romanesco from seed and put them under a grow light in the spare bedroom. Talked sweetly to them each day. I had great germination. Then the air conditioner broke for the duration of a 10-day heat wave, and none of those little sprouts could hold on in 94F. 😣 We just got a new A/C, so this weekend I start from scratch.
Thank you Sir for many valuable info. Great video!
I like how I totally just start growing anything I want at anytime with no respect to the seasons as a new gardener 😂 all because my pepper and tomato plants are fruiting like crazy also just transplanted my habaneros and tomatoes again today…happy growing
Have you seen a Clyde's Garden Planner? Covers every zone, when to start inside or direct seed for both spring and fall and predicts the harvest and amount to expect if following the guide. Not having time between my job and traveling for that J O B… and gardening, of which i enjoy the harvest and relaxation, this thing takes the guesswork out of the equation for me. I post a month calendar on the inside of my garage door. Put up a single sheet for each month, write down what, when, and even grass care for that month, including lawn treatments by the week… so its in my face to remind me as i leave every day.
Works for me.
Love the video's. Always good advise!
This is my first year growing and I've been having a blast. I live not too far from you so we're in the same zone and my Collard Greens have germinated and are on their way. Being a rookie I definitely made the biggest mistakes by not staggering any, and just direct seeding them but everything is looking good. I'm probably just going to give away a bunch of Collards to friends and family for Thanksgiving is it keeps growing as it has.
This heat and drought is killing us in Louisiana but I'm working on fall starting now
It's still too hot here in TX…I will give it another two weeks or more.
What happens if they get leggy at first? Will the plants recover if I put them under lights after they started out leggy?
I am in west central Florida and have tulsi basil, lettuce leaf basic, thai basil and mammoth basil growing very well in dappled morning sunlight. The tulsi is a perennial here and I have had lots of harvests off of several plants grown in partial shade. The mamoth basil was started in February and is just now showing signs of flowering, but I may let it so that it will self seed itself for spring. Tulsi is seeding now but it doesn't change the taste. I tried the Prospera basil from Johnny's this spring and it was just okay, not as strong as the tulsi or thai. I will start genovese basil seed now too. I hear the king richard leeks are the ones to get as they handle heat well and you can keep them in the ground longer until you need them.
Great advice on staggering the transplants, somehow I always end up with all my broccoli and Romanesque ripening at the same time. Still looking forward to you showing us how you consume, store, share your crops. My Rottweiler’s favorite are the snow peas. Thanks in Cave Creek Az.
The weather forecast in Sylacauga Alabama has the temperature increasing into the triple digits. I was hoping to try a third attempt with carrots, and sow beets, kohlrabi, cabbage, winter choi, and Pak Choi. I have Lincoln peas soaking and sprouting. They will have to go into the soil by Sunday. I'm going to have to delay beets and carrots until the temperature cools. The Kohlrabi, Pak Choi, and cabbage can be started indoors. The Yellow Heart Winter Choi and Komatsuna will sprout in warm soil, up to 95F, and do not do well as transplants, so I will have too wait a few weeks to sow. While beets can be sown indoors, they do not like their roots disturbed. It stunts their growth for a few weeks, so it is best to wait for cooler temperatures. I have a bed that gets shade from my pole beans, so I might try direct sowing in it. The sprouts for my turnips, rutabagas, and Late Nagasaki Cabbage are doing well in the heat. I am expecting my crookneck squash to start flowering anytime. I have Brandywine, Black Cherry, Sun Gold, and Sunrise Bumble Bee tomatoes ripening on the vine, harvesting a lot of Oriental Yard Long Beans, Rattlesnake Beans, and assorted peppers. I'm waiting seed husks to dry out on my basil, so I can harvest the seeds. In about two weeks, I will be starting tomato seeds for my fall/winter experiment—still want fresh tomatoes for Christmas and New Year's Day. I am also going to try transplanting eight my best producing/favorite peppers into my polytunnel for winter peppers this October. First, I have to figure out how to take my GreenStalk tower apart with them in it, without damaging the plants. The things I do in the name of science….
This works great for raised bed gardens. I do a in ground garden and just can’t see myself transplanting over 1000 pea seeds lol. Great information though!
When do you start your onion seeds?
Awww Dale
Thanks for the great advice.
Bro you've taught me soooo much, bone meal + veggie feed been going off on all my plants and now pops too! I'm in Hillsborough so awesome being in same zone or close. Well done! Hope to see the ops one day but worst case we're growin! Thanks again and take care!
Great video again. And great timing.
This summer FLEW BY….It is so hard to believe we are preparing FALL 🍁 GARDENS.
planted my brassica in raised beds under 40 % shade cloth and got huge germination
Should you fertilize vegetable seedlings at all before putting them in the ground?
I am in central Texas. When do you suggest I start?
Didn't the thunder shirt work? Poor buddy.
Thank you for a great video again.
Cut the basil about 10 or 15 cm. Remove lives, and put in jar with water. After some days your basil will have roots. You can do same with leaves on top. Cut it about 5 cm remove lives, put in water and you will have roots and new plants.
It's been in the 100's here in Idaho. So I feel your pain.
Could you please tell me where you buy your shade cloth…for some reason I can't access that information.
I’m super excited about a fall garden this year. Have plenty of seeds sown, now to find places to plant them 🙈 Too late for Brussels sprouts for me, but I’ll be trying them next year for sure. I’ve also started onions, as I’ve heard it’s possible to overwinter them, even in colder zones with some protection. It’s all an experiment for me, learning along the way.
I estimate our fall planting timing is a few weeks after yours.
I’m just trying to keep my garden alive. It was 110 today.
All my basil is doing well in this heat believe it or not.
Always great info 👍🏾 Thanks again 👍🏾
Yeah…I left my seeds outside 🥺
I can recommend F1 Aspabroc. Once you snip the first head in the center, the side shoots are cut & come again. I started mine under grow lights and supported the seedlings with cut up toilet paper rolls until they were strong enough to stand on their own. They produced all through the fall, winter and spring here in zone 7b ( Chattanooga). When I finally pulled them up, the main stems were like little tree trunks 😂
Dry your basil
What varieties of leeks do you recommend as being reasonably heat tolerant? PS hi Dale. Poor baby didn't have his comfort-coat on!
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What would I do with 30 head of cabbage? Hmmm. I would keep two and donate the rest to the local food bank.
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Oh, which seed starting mix are you using? I remembered you really only used peat pellets before
Its been a rough summer. Even my chile peppers failed.
HELP!! How do we start walnut, pecan, peach, etc..hard seed fruits n nit seeds?
Soak only? Soak n break out of shell them plant? Totally lost!!!
After how many weeks u take out my cocuber I take out side the become sleep
Awesome! Great timing. Thank you 😊👍