#Vegetables garden planner windows#

This is also the best time to plant winter cover crops such as crimson clover, hairy vetch, winter peas, and cold-hardy grains. Start with large-rooted daikon and Chinese radishes, which need more growing time compared to little salad radishes. As the weather allows, direct sow coriander, romaine, bibb, and butterhead lettuces, and radishes galore. Sow a fast-maturing variety of carrot in a fertile bed, and cover it with an old blanket or shade cover to keep the soil moist between waterings. Shop local garden centres for seedlings if you did not grow your own. Set out cabbage family crops as they reach transplanting size, and cover them with tulle (wedding net), horticultural fleece or fine insect mesh to keep them safe from bugs. Crimson clover and other soil-building winter green manures are planted in early autumn Second Phase: 11 to 10 weeks before your first hard freeze Other excellent vegetables to start indoors or in a nursery bed include bulb fennel and parsley. Autumn is a great season to try new varieties of these and other cabbage cousins, such as super-tender ' Yellow Cabbage Collards' or beautiful ' Rainbow Candy Crush' kale. Indoors or in a sheltered place outdoors, start seeds of brassicas including broccoli, cabbage, collards, kale, kohlrabi, swedes, and fast-maturing varieties of cauliflower. If you are graced with mild weather, plant parsnips or beetroot in well-worked beds, and make a small sowing of an interesting chard like pale green ' Lyon'. In the first phase, there is just enough time to squeeze in a late sowing of fast-maturing salad cucumbers, summer squash, or French beans.

#Vegetables garden planner windows#

There are four planting windows for your autumn garden and it’s important to select the right crops for each period: Brassicas like swedes should be planted well in advance of your first hard freeze for a winter crop First Phase: 14 to 12 weeks before your first hard freeze Frost means the end for warm-season crops like tomatoes and basil, but it benefits cool-season plants like pak choi and kohlrabi by triggering the production of sugars in the above-ground plant parts.

Start by determining your first freeze date, which is often about three weeks after your first frost date. Pak choi is but one of many vegetables that grow best in the autumn A Four-Phase Fall Planting Strategy Autumn brings another chance to sow and grow cool-season veggies, from blemish-free arugula to sweet little carrots.īut which crops to choose? And how does it all fit together in a way you can handle during the often unpleasantly hot days of late summer? To help you explore the possibilities for your greatest autumn garden ever, here is our broad stroke guide to making the most of the last third of your growing season. So, it is truly a wondrous thing that you get an extra little growing season as summer turns to autumn. It’s been a rough summer for many of us, too hot or too dry or too many rabbits, and the list goes on.