Use this Fall Vegetable Gardening Guide to extend your garden by growing vegetables in autumn. Includes a list of plants that grow well in cool weather and tips for fall gardening.
Fall brings cool weather and a mild cold front that cool weather vegetables need in order to flourish. During the fall months you will notice your lettuce growing faster. Its crops become darker, sweeter, and crisper. When you carry cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli into the fall season you will see uninterrupted growth. Increase your vegetable bed with fall vegetables that don’t do well in the summer heat to extend your growing season. With a well thought out plan you could be saving hundreds of dollars by growing your own vegetables and you will have little need to visit the produce market.
Planning your fall garden is easy if you know what you can plant. There are a lot of vegetables that are cool weather cops so I suggest making a list of the things you are currently buying at the produce market and start growing those things first and then add a couple new things. You can always add more next year.
All of the listed plants can be started by seed indoors in early summer and then brought out to transplant in late summer or early fall. Plant all fall crops before the first frost so they have plenty of time to settle their roots in the ground.
The secret to having a successful fall vegetable garden is to have a well thought out plan. You must use the summer season to carry over plants into the fall months, replace plants that you pull up and add fall crops to your beds for a continuous supply of produce.
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