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It’s now late July and in this Organic Gardening How To we want to talk about starting a fall garden. I know, we’re still picking a lot of summer vegetables, but if you want a fall garden, you need to think about it now.

To determine when to start planting your fall vegetables, you need to have some idea about when your “neck of the woods” is likely to get it’s first frost. If you’re not sure, you can click on this Farmer’s Almanac link to get an estimated date for the first frost in your area.

Now, that you know when your area is likely to get its first frost, you have to decide what kind of fall vegetables you want to plant. Once you know that, determine how many days it takes those vegetables to reach maturity and then you can calculate your latest planting date.

For example, the Farmer’s Almanac estimates the first frost for our location will be November 1. I just love home grown cauliflower and I want to be sure that I have some in my fall garden. Cauliflower has a maturity date of 90 days, so the latest date that I should plant these seeds is August 1 (that’s why I planted those seeds this morning!).

Below is a list of vegetables that are ideal for fall gardening and an estimate of their maturity dates:

In many ways, fall gardening is so much easier than spring gardening. In the spring, we had to plant our seeds indoors and had to wait until the last frost to move the young plants outdoors.

In a fall garden, we just plant the seeds into the soil and Mother Nature does the rest.

Watch this Organic Gardening How To video for some additional tips about fall Gardening:

Remember, keep notes on everything you do, when you did it, and how well it worked. Notes like these will make your Organic Gardening How To so much easier in the coming years.

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