When to start a fall garden in texas
North Texas Gardening ~ How to Plant a Fall Garden in Texas
good morning everyone hillbilly Jill
here with North Texas vegetable
gardening canning recipes a little bit
everything today is September the 1st
and as we've been talking about in our
previous videos we are getting ready to
plant our fall garden so stay tuned we
have done our first pass with the tiller
here are my bell peppers that I've
managed to keep alive throughout the
summer you can see they are still
producing I've got some basil out there
and some sage that I transplanted from
spots am I have to trim that basil back
a little bit these are the two main
squashes that I was telling you about I
planted these oh my god a month ago and
the reason why I planted them in August
here is because I grew them last year
but I planted them in the spring with
the rest of my garden and they they
didn't really produce it was almost too
hot for them until the fall and by the
end you know that he had already taken
its toll on much of the foliage and it
looked pretty raggedy so this year I
planted it in the middle of August or
around the 1st of August and I think
it's going to do just fine I'm already
seeing little squashes in there and you
can see it's flowering and it looks
almost like zucchini and summer squash
only it it grows like cucumbers and Mike
in lumps and so we do trellis them to
keep them off the ground and I've been
training this one since I plan to do
this since I started coming up but you
can see the first pass we got quite a
bit of work done we have some tomato
plants back there that we're trying to
salvage and we think that we might be
okay until the first freeze we've turned
them back a little bit dug up around
them so anyway we're fixin to get
started planting some of our things some
of it we're gonna have to wait a little
bit longer we do still have some pretty
hot weather in September in Texas so we
will not what we know we can today and
get it going and hopefully we'll be able
to share with you our fall and winter
garden
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okay you just saw my Husqvarna and it's
very best we're preparing our soul a lot
of the things that I'm getting ready to
plant has very little seeds lettuce
celery rhubarb beets onions so we have
to make sure and get our soul just as
fine as we can get it and then once we
get them in the ground
we're gonna have to keep them wet until
they start sprouting September first
today here in Texas we'll be able to
have a fresh spinach and salad Macon's
and all that probably welling into
December and January here sometimes we
don't even get our first freeze until
close to Christmas but somehow I think
this year is gonna be different
I think that we've already started out
with a very cool September we had a very
cool August too
and so I'm thinking that it's probably
gonna be a little bit sooner maybe
around how first frost maybe around the
end of October 1st of November this year
ain't nothing like the smell of dirt
when you're getting ready to plant
you can see how find my soul is starting
to look here we've added some organic
matter we did that a couple of weeks ago
and we've let it we've killed it in and
we've let it sit so we're getting ready
to plant I've smoothed out the soil I'm
a little onion bed here and I've already
got my little tag so I know what's there
so now it's time to plant I'm gonna
plant these little seeds probably about
a half-inch deep now it's time to plant
my spinach I've raked up ten by three
foot swatch here next to my onions these
grow plants that are about 25 inches
across so we're gonna plant some about 6
to 12 inches apart I got the spinach
planted are you planted those about a
quarter of an inch deep I did put them
uh like I said about 12 inches apart
probably have about ten heads in there
hopefully that's gonna come up really
good now I'm fixing starting my cabbage
I've raked my little area cabbage goes
in really shallow and it says that it's
not gonna start doing good until we hit
75 degrees during the day
but that's with it already leafing so
I'm gonna try something this year and
I'm gonna go ahead and put it in the
ground now because I think by the time
it does come up we're probably are gonna
be 75 degrees during the day now it's
time to plant the red romaine lettuce
remember that on some other videos I
tell you that we get our seeds from
Baker heirloom seed company these are
all non-gmo heirloom seeds we have
terrific look with them every year we're
able to harvest some of ours on our own
the way you plant red romaine lettuce is
it see the seed sits almost right on top
of the ground so I'm gonna rake this
over and smooth it out and then I'm
gonna sprinkle my seat and I'm just
gonna rake it a little bit and we're
gonna wet it down real good
I got my red baits in the ground these
need to be grown on a row anyway now
it's on to my turnips got them turnips
in you just broadcast them on top of the
soil and lightly rake over him next I
got me a little all row here of a
radishes I built me a row up and I've
just sprinkled the seeds right on top
and I'm just gonna take my rake and I'm
gonna rake over them and cover them just
a little bit okay y'all I got it done
it's a been an all-day thing still have
a couple of things that I'll plant
probably around mid-september I have
some iceberg lettuce and I have some
celery then I'm gonna put in the ground
but I'm just afraid that these next
couple of weeks we're still gonna be a
little too warm for it it's taking me
all day to do this but it's gonna be
very very well worth it when this stuff
starts coming in so stay tuned to my
channel maybe we can learn something
together on fall gardening here in Texas
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