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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Succession Planting for Fall Harvests

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In a fall garden, succession planting is the best way to really maximize that tail end of the true growing season. Meg Cowden shares her techniques in today’s show. Connect With Meg Cowden: Meg Cowden is the founder of Seed to Fork, a Zone 4a/b gardener who’s all about zone-bending, season extending, and succession planting. She’s got a book coming out soon too, so stay tuned. Seed to Fork Blog Meg’s YouTube Channel Meg’s Instagram Meg’s Pinterest Meg’s Facebook Page Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design.   Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Hope you are doing well. We've got

0:17.0

Meg Counten back on this show. She is the founder of Sea to Fork and a huge successions

0:23.0

soar. Something that I do quite a bit of actually Meg, but I think certainly something

0:27.6

you've posted a lot about it and you're pretty well known for helping a lot of people out

0:31.2

with. And so today we're talking about succession planning for fall harvest. So I'm curious

0:35.3

as to your approach, timing methods, all that kind of stuff.

0:39.0

Yeah, I mean, this kind of encapsulates a little kind of the whole thing we've been talking

0:43.6

about already. If you think about timing, if you think about the lead time of all the

0:48.7

different vegetables that we want to grow that are going to get harvested in the fall,

0:54.0

or sort of slotting those vegetables into your garden along the entire growing season,

1:01.0

and some are hairs and some are tortoises, right? Like they're going to, they all are

1:06.3

going to come to the table around the same time. Some of them might come to the table sooner

1:11.5

and have repeat performances, right? But the whole idea of succession sewing is to, there's

1:18.8

a lot of different ways to slice it. But kind of what I'm thinking about in terms of succession

1:23.5

planning for fall garden is continuing to sew. So with regard to cabbage, I have cabbages.

1:33.6

I've sewed three or four succession of cabbages already, and it is only May. And I will

1:39.2

sew probably one or two more. And what that does is in our climate, we can have cabbages

1:47.2

season from the end of May until October, November. And that, yeah, it really is. Like when

1:57.8

I think about that, I'm like, I know which one really does suck. I'm not going to lie to

2:01.0

you. Like it really sucks. Like it's bad. It's like two months worse than it needs to be.

2:07.9

But like I can grow cabbage in August. And it's like an all-polish of a cabbage out of

2:13.3

the garden in the middle of August and make like an awesome coleslaw. And so what requires

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