Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We have Meg Kouten back on the

show, founder of Sea to Fork. We're talking this week about fall gardening, all sorts

of things, when it comes to great varieties, season extensions, succession planting,

and Meg, you've got this set of recommendations for long season crops to plant today. So I

guess the first question I have is like, what do you count as a long season crop?

Yeah, so I kind of think of, I break down our crops into like quick crops, main season

crops, things that will crop in like around three months, and then a long season crop

is like a four month or a longer time frame in the garden. And the reason I kind of like

to distinguish those three buckets is because a four season, four month season is kind

of like a growing season for a lot of people, right? Four to five months in kind of the

colder northern climate. So anything that's going to take the majority of our growing

season to mature, I consider a long season crop.

Okay, that makes sense. And then as far as recommendations for you, like the stuff that

you really like to grow, what are some of the standouts, like maybe like three or four

of your favorites?

Yeah, so a lot of these crops, so that they're going to get so to different points along

the season, but they're all going to hit, you know, they're stride in the fall. And that

is harvesting or curing or so, Brussels sprouts are one of my very, very favorite fall

crops. And they're kind of the mainstay of our garden because I have them sowed right

now. I sowed them. I sowed them in the end of April here every year. I sowed them earlier.

We've actually harvested Brussels sprouts in the middle of July here in Minnesota one year.

And I remember like boasting to one of my organic gardener friends, farmer friends at a farmer's

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