Popular Garden Vegetables for a Fall Harvest
Several popular garden vegetables you can plant in summer will produce some wonderful crops to harvest in winter.
There are popular garden vegetables that can be planted early in the summer for fall harvest or early winter harvest.
When you plant in the summer it will mean a little more planning than your spring planted garden.
You need to know the plants that tolerate the summer heat and the frost during the colder months.
Many vegetables will adapt well to summer planting to harvest in late fall.
Your garden growing season expands with planting a fall garden which will give you another harvest a short time after the early crops finished producing.
You can extend a fall harvest even further by giving the crops some protection from an early frost by planting them in garden vegetable cold frames that have covers.
Many cool-season vegetables produce the best flavor and quality when they have cooler weather to mature.
The middle of June, July, and August are the times to plant your vegetable gardens that will produce a harvest during the fall and winter.
You will need to figure out what you are going to do with the remains of your spring vegetable garden before preparing the soil for your new fall and winter garden.
All the weed growth and crop residue will have to be removed from the old garden before you prepare any soil.
Once you have finished that till the soil to about eight inches deep.
If you used large amounts of fertilizer for your spring crops, you most likely will not need to add any before you plant a fall crop.
If not apply roughly 1 to 2 pounds of 10-10-10 fertilizer per a one hundred foot space and mix in completely.
In order to have good germination of your plants in late summer it is vital that the soil surface does not become dried out and to make sure the soil temperature does not go over 80 degrees F.
This problem can be resolved by using some shade netting you can attach onto some wire that sits a few inches above the ground.
Your fall vegetable garden seeds should be planted twice as deep as your spring vegetable garden seeds.
When you plant seeds deeper, and when the shade that comes from a tall plant nearby or a previously used trellis will help protect your seeds for this next crop of vegetables.
The majority of popular garden vegetables for fall are going to need about an inch of water every week.
Sometimes it is best to do a deep single watering instead of a frequent shallow sprinkling.
But you may also find that germinating seeds and young seedlings need a little watering more often because the seedlings should not dry out.
New transplants will profit by a shallow watering just until the roots develop enough to spread.
Fall vegetables benefit from nitrogen just as your spring vegetables.
The leafy vegetables will profit from a nitrogen application anywhere from three to six weeks after planting.
Some garden vegetables you can plant in early summer are: Brussels sprouts, early June for winter harvest; purple sprouting broccoli, end of June for early spring harvest; Royal Chantenay carrots, throughout July for later fall harvest; Autumn King carrots can be planted late summer because they tolerate the winter conditions; fennel, late June for fall harvest; winter-hardy leeks, through mid-June for harvesting in April; and Oriental greens, mid-June through mid-July for a fall harvest.
There are some vegetables that can be planted late and they are: overwinter cauliflower, plant the seeds indoors in the middle of July and transplant outdoors the middle of August, curd formation will not start until after spring frost; onions you can plant in August and can pull out the thin onions through February to use as green onions and in the summer harvest the bulbs; spinach can be planted continuously for an ongoing supply.
If you plant new seeds every three weeks through the summer and fall you will get a winter supply that will run into early spring; turnips are a fast growing crop that you can plant anytime May through August not only for the roots but also the greens.
These are popular garden vegetables that can be planted in your fall/winter harvest gardens.
There are popular garden vegetables that can be planted early in the summer for fall harvest or early winter harvest.
When you plant in the summer it will mean a little more planning than your spring planted garden.
You need to know the plants that tolerate the summer heat and the frost during the colder months.
Many vegetables will adapt well to summer planting to harvest in late fall.
Your garden growing season expands with planting a fall garden which will give you another harvest a short time after the early crops finished producing.
You can extend a fall harvest even further by giving the crops some protection from an early frost by planting them in garden vegetable cold frames that have covers.
Many cool-season vegetables produce the best flavor and quality when they have cooler weather to mature.
The middle of June, July, and August are the times to plant your vegetable gardens that will produce a harvest during the fall and winter.
You will need to figure out what you are going to do with the remains of your spring vegetable garden before preparing the soil for your new fall and winter garden.
All the weed growth and crop residue will have to be removed from the old garden before you prepare any soil.
Once you have finished that till the soil to about eight inches deep.
If you used large amounts of fertilizer for your spring crops, you most likely will not need to add any before you plant a fall crop.
If not apply roughly 1 to 2 pounds of 10-10-10 fertilizer per a one hundred foot space and mix in completely.
In order to have good germination of your plants in late summer it is vital that the soil surface does not become dried out and to make sure the soil temperature does not go over 80 degrees F.
This problem can be resolved by using some shade netting you can attach onto some wire that sits a few inches above the ground.
Your fall vegetable garden seeds should be planted twice as deep as your spring vegetable garden seeds.
When you plant seeds deeper, and when the shade that comes from a tall plant nearby or a previously used trellis will help protect your seeds for this next crop of vegetables.
The majority of popular garden vegetables for fall are going to need about an inch of water every week.
Sometimes it is best to do a deep single watering instead of a frequent shallow sprinkling.
But you may also find that germinating seeds and young seedlings need a little watering more often because the seedlings should not dry out.
New transplants will profit by a shallow watering just until the roots develop enough to spread.
Fall vegetables benefit from nitrogen just as your spring vegetables.
The leafy vegetables will profit from a nitrogen application anywhere from three to six weeks after planting.
Some garden vegetables you can plant in early summer are: Brussels sprouts, early June for winter harvest; purple sprouting broccoli, end of June for early spring harvest; Royal Chantenay carrots, throughout July for later fall harvest; Autumn King carrots can be planted late summer because they tolerate the winter conditions; fennel, late June for fall harvest; winter-hardy leeks, through mid-June for harvesting in April; and Oriental greens, mid-June through mid-July for a fall harvest.
There are some vegetables that can be planted late and they are: overwinter cauliflower, plant the seeds indoors in the middle of July and transplant outdoors the middle of August, curd formation will not start until after spring frost; onions you can plant in August and can pull out the thin onions through February to use as green onions and in the summer harvest the bulbs; spinach can be planted continuously for an ongoing supply.
If you plant new seeds every three weeks through the summer and fall you will get a winter supply that will run into early spring; turnips are a fast growing crop that you can plant anytime May through August not only for the roots but also the greens.
These are popular garden vegetables that can be planted in your fall/winter harvest gardens.
