Today's Q&A comes from a question that I've received multiple times in my Instagram DMs,

and it goes along the lines of this. Is it too late to plant, insert cool season crop here?

Most of the people who are asking me this are telling me what zone that they are in

so that I can be aware of what their growing season is like.

So most of you know or can probably imagine that the answer to this question is definitely going

to depend on your location and on your climate. If someone from the northern U.S. is asking me

that question, my answer will be very different than someone in the southern U.S. is asking me that question. My answer will be very different than someone

in the southern U.S. Most of these questions, though, that I have received are from people who are in

my area or warmer, such as zone 8, even some people from Florida. I am in zone 7B in Arkansas.

That gives you a little bit of a reference here.

But here's the thing. Although you can go by different planting guides and planting suggestions

based on your average first frost date in the fall, assuming that you have a frost, a lot of your knowledge when it

comes to how late is too late or what will happen if I plant now, will come by your own experience.

So I don't want that to discourage you because it's something that you're just going to have

to play with and see what works well for you.

That said, I do want to give you an answer

to this question that I've received a couple of times,

especially in regard to people who are gardening in areas

that don't get to be too too cold in the wintertime,

like my area in warmer. And that is, you can plant a lot of these crops

now, although it's a little bit late because we are really fighting daylight. If your ground is still

warm and you can still get crops to germinate, what you may find, and this is definitely

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