Thriving The Future Ep.37 – Planning the Fall Garden

Plant that Victory Garden!

You may think that gardening season is late, and you are just harvesting the tomatoes and the root crops and squash. If you live in the midsection of the country or the South, you can get two seasons in. Start succession planting now!

We live in USDA Zone 6A. Our average first frost date is Oct-20. In 2021 it was Oct-30. In 2020 and 2019 it was much earlier in October.

If I set Clyde’s Garden Planner (from Baker Creek) to the Oct-20 first frost date, these are the things that I can plant and harvest:

Clyde’s Garden Planner from Baker Creek Seeds, set to my first frost date of Oct-20.

Victory Garden

A good graphic of the Victory Garden flyer from the 1940s. Its a good guide for planting another succession crop.

Cover crops

Plant cover crops for an extra food harvest, deer food plot, or a cover crop to build nitrogen and cover the soil for the winter.

I use cover crop seed from Green Cover Seed

Green Cover Seed

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