Planning the Garden for Fall
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
It might seem too early to plan for fall, but it’s not! You have to plan this early, especially in colder climates, due to the “Fall Factor.” Margaret Roach and I explain what this means in today’s show.
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Margaret Roach is a liifelong organic gardener and the founder of A Way to Garden, as well as the newly re-released book A Way to Garden.
Learn More: Fall Gardening 101
How do you keep a productive and healthy garden in the fall! In this episode we go over:
- Why PROTECTION is the #1 rule of Fall
- What crops will thrive in your garden
- A few products you may want to consider
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. I am Kevin and I'm here with |
| 0:06.9 | Margaret Roach. She's a lifelong organic gardener with an amazing website, amazing podcast, and a book sitting right in front of me, all called |
| 0:15.4 | A Way to Garden. |
| 0:17.6 | We're giving one copy of this book away. |
| 0:20.4 | Funnily enough, little play on words there but we're giving it we're giving one away and and you can get it if you review this podcast on iTunes leave a comment on what you think of the podcast, and just put away to Garden at the end |
| 0:34.9 | so I know that you entered, and you'll be in. |
| 0:37.1 | So with that said, we're going to talk about a really cool topic that I just hadn't really read it in quite this way and I thought you explained it really well |
| 0:46.2 | and this would be fall veggie gardening and most people are probably listening |
| 0:49.5 | of this in July I'm a big fan of fall and I almost would call it my favorite season over spring if I |
| 0:56.7 | had to pick one or the other I almost like fall over spring or at least whatever fall |
| 1:00.7 | I have here in zone 10b. my fake fall, we'll call it. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay. How does that, if I'm a fall gardener, if I want to try my hand at gardening in the fall, |
| 1:11.0 | what do I need to think about when it comes to starting my seeds because there is a twist to this? |
| 1:16.4 | Definitely and you know I learned a number of years ago from organic gardening |
| 1:21.8 | excuse me organic farming friends that they do their calculations you know they |
| 1:28.6 | plan out all their fields and what's going to go in what row when and they have successions and you know |
| 1:34.7 | field number one this area is going to have this on this date and then that's going to get |
| 1:38.5 | harvested and another thing is going to follow it and in doing, they calculate obviously days to maturity, you know, you look on the seed packet and it says, |
| 1:48.0 | oh this erugla is, you know, 21 to 40 days to maturity and you figure, okay, well then something else can go in at 40 days or |
| 1:54.6 | thereabouts but that's all geared all those days to maturity things are |
| 2:00.6 | geared to a spring sewing when light is intensifying, days are lengthening, not declining. |
| 2:09.7 | Once you get passed around where we are right now, whether in your area or my area, the light is actually |
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