As Summer Heat Begins to Die Down, It Is Time to Start Fall Plants

 As summer fades away to cooler days, it is prime time to start fall plants.  

The selection is not as wide as spring, but still enough to make planting a fall garden worthwhile.  Many vegetables and flowers do not do well in the summer sunshine or heat.  These varieties, however, do wonderfully in cooler temperatures.

Fall-planted vegetables are great for holiday harvests, cold storage, or overwintering.  The use of season extension devices like cold frames, hoop houses, mulch, or frost protection fabric might bring even more options to autumn gardens.

Garlic: Garlic Thriving in cooler temperatures, planted in October, will produce a healthy harvest in the spring.

Carrots:  Carrots get their sweet taste and crunchy body from the cooler weather

Spinach: Spinach grows quickly in the lower fall temperatures

Turnips: Turnips produce a stronger taste in cooler temperatures too!

Green Onions:  Nearly all onions produce well until the 20-degree mark

Peas:  Legumes, no matter the variety grow best in cooler temps.  Sugar snap, sweet peas,

           and shelling peas do best in the autumn temps

Beets: Being semi-hardy, beets will grow well into the freezing time

Cauliflower:  Plant early as they do not hold up to freezing, but are well worth the time

Cabbage:  Unlike the less tasty grocery store versions; with over 400 different varieties, these are dandy in the cooler temps

Well, that's all I am starting this week.  Hope it all transplants well.