So I will admit that this year has not been my most stellar gardening season.

I'm going to blame it on the weather mostly.

We've had an extremely hot, extremely dry and oddly windy summer, which we just usually

don't have our wind in the summer.

And my outdoor garden especially has just been weird.

I had a lot of stuff that just didn't germinate. I have a lot of baby plants that got just

beat up by the wind and kind of stunted them and so I am licking my wounds, making it through summer.

Things look pretty good right now,

but I have to admit that I am planning

on a bit of redemption in my fall garden this year. So contrary to what I thought for many years you don't start a

fall garden in the fall. You start it now, which is mid-summer if you're listening to this when

the episode comes out.

And that can be a little bit disorienting

because if you're anything like me or your region

is similar to mine, I'm kind of in that honeymoon

season of gardening right now.

Everything's planted, everything's's growing it looks pretty decent and the

insanity of harvest has not yet started and so I'm just kind of tootling along and

it's really easy to forget that now is when we need to start planting

our seedlings, potentially back in your house on your seed racks, or thinking about

cultivating beds or areas in our gardens for those fall crops.

So if you are intrigued by the idea of planting of fall garden this year,

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