One of the more common questions that I get is how to know when to plant for fall,

especially if you're in a climate that doesn't really frost over, but this episode will answer it no matter

where you live. I mean let's talk first about the crops that do well and fall so

salad greens, cabbages, broccoli's, anything like that does fantastic and fall, root crops, carrots, you know, all sorts of stuff like that.

They don't want to germinate in warm soil, certainly not soil at the time of release of this podcast because it's quite hot, but you still

need to grow them and you still need to figure out when you want to grow them.

And so what you have to figure out is your first frost date, the first time that it gets very cold, cold enough to frost, in fall for you.

So there's a lot of different ways to do that. Hardiness zone is a good one.

Honestly, calling your local county extension is a good one

or just remembering from last year roughly when it happened

is also a good one.

And so that's the date at which, in theory,

you cannot grow past, although we'll talk about some things

that you can do to extend that because there's actually quite a bit but that's a

good rule of thumb for when ideally you want to have stuff coming to

fruition coming to harvest, right?

And so let's say that it's 60 days from now.

Well, let's bump it up to 80 days from now.

So if it's 80 days from now and you're growing broccoli, well broccoli takes about 70 to 80 days to grow.

So that means that you pretty much need to get your broccoli started right now.

That's what I would say.

And so you need to make sure that you have enough time before it gets too cold that the plant you want to grow will mature.

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