24 Vegetables You Can Start in October RIGHT NOW!!!

Foreign. It's October, so you're probably thinking that the garden is closed for the season, but you're wrong. No matter where you live, there's something you can plant this month. So let's get started. All right, so the first thing you got to know is what kind of season you're working in where your climate has you. So we have a resource for you@gardenary.com calendar. That's where you can get the Gardenary calendar. This is going to help you understand your seasons. This is a most important part of gardening. So don't just listen to any old gardener on the Internet telling you where to plant stuff, because it depends where you live. So figure out your season. Are you in a cool season? That means there's a chance of frost. Are you in a warm season, no chance of frost. Are you in a cold season where it's definitely going to frost? It's more than frosting is freezing. So let's first start. We're going to talk about leaves. So for leaves, if you're in a warm season, still kind of, you know, temperatures are above 65 to 85 and there's no chance of frost, then you can grow all the greens, but especially kale, Swiss chard, arugula, those are going to thrive right now for you and do great even though it's warm, if you're in a cool season. So this is when the temps are starting to dip, there's frost happening, no worries. Still tons of greens to grow. My favorite is spinach. You can grow that from seed. You can also grow kale and Swiss chard and arugula, just like in the warm season. You can also grow romaine lettuce, buttercrunch lettuce. All the spring mixes, things that you think of when you think of salad, all those grow in the cool season. And here's the best part. You can also grow cilantro, dill and parsley. Those are my favorite herbs to grow in the garden and they love it when it's cool and they're all frost tolerant. So these greens are going to a little bit tender if you have a really hard frost. But they all don't mind the temperatures dipping below 30. All right. If it's cold where you live. So if it's dipping below 32 every single day, kale and cabbage are my two favorites for the coldest part of the year. Those have a nice bumpy savoy skin and they really are frost tolerant. So you want to plant those. Really by plant. You could put them in by seed. And they'll start to take off when the weather warms. But you could put them in under cover, under a cold frame, and they'll grow even when it's cold. They will not. They're not going to increase in size a lot, but they will survive. You can harvest from them even when it's really, really, really cold outside. All right, now let's talk about the second level that I teach in my garden system, the roots. Let's talk about root crops. These can grow in any of those climates, cool, warm or cold. And you don't need as tall of a bed. So that's the best part. I like to grow these in about 12 inch tall beds. Let's talk about which roots you can grow. If you're in the warm season, you want to focus on potatoes. I know it weird to grow potatoes in October, but trust me, it works. So if you're in the warm season, no chance of frost anytime soon. You could grow some quick new potatoes. Get those in the ground right now, you'll get a harvest by the end of November, hopefully early December. So potatoes are great to grow. You could also probably try to squeeze in some radishes and carrots. You're going to need to keep them really well watered if you're in a warm season, but those will work as well. Now, if you're in a cool season where you've got a chance of frost, then you have tons of options for root crops. Radishes, beets, carrots, fennel, all the things that grow in the ground, they tend to like it when it's cool. So not all the things, but those three things definitely like it. And those should all be planted from seed directly into the soil. Grow in a bed like this. I grow beets and carrots and radishes, all the things in this bed. And then also it's time to be planting garlic. So garlic is the thing you want to be putting into the garden during your cool season. Really at the start of it, really, like right after your first frost is a great time to plant that garlic. So you divide it up into cloves, put it into the bed. You're not going to get a harvest until like May, June, July of the next year, which is crazy. But this is the time. If you plant anything this month, this must be the thing. All right. If you're in a cold season, so it's already dipped into freezing, you want to put garlic into the ground too. You're just going to need to use like a cold frame or a tunnel to Warm up the soil so you can actually get this into the soil. But you need to be planting this too, if you haven't already. If it's super cold where you live, if it's really cold where you live. Another fun thing I've done is I go ahead and plant beets and radishes, carrots, buy seed in the garden, put frost cloth over them. I'm not going to get a harvest. They're not even going to grow until next spring. But they get this really nice start in the season. Think about it, the way nature works, right? If you had these plants that were untouched, carrots, radishes, beets, would go to seed. Those seeds would drop into the soil and sit there all winter and then pop up in the spring. So, so you can plant these even if you're in a cold place and you get a jump start on spring and you, you know, you're just going to like beat all your neighbors. They're all going to be jealous when it's like March and April and you have beets, radishes and carrots and they just have snow. All right, let's talk about fruit and finally fruit in my leaves, roots and fruit system. Have you gotten my book yet? You should get my book. Leaves, roots and fruit. Leaves are the easiest, roots a little bit harder, fruit hardest. Still do it. But just buyer beware. They take the longest in the garden, need the most sun, the most space, the most time, but you can still do it. So if you're in the warm season, if you're in the northern hemisphere, I'm guessing in the warm season in October, you don't have a really long time left in the warm season. So we don't want to grow things like tomatoes or peppers at this point in October because it's a little too late. But you can grow things that have like a 50 day, 60 day cycle from seed. So beans are great, cucumbers are great, maybe even like squash and zucchini. Things that are from seed, two harvests, 50 to 60 days. They're a great thing to grow if you're in the warm season. So we're talking really, really southern part of the northern hemisphere here. All right, we're talking Mexico, we're talking Texas, California, Florida. Those are the places where you would grow those things in October. Now, if you're in a cool season, so you've got a chance of frost, you're hovering between 40 and 60 degrees every day, Fahrenheit, then the fruit you're going to grow are going to Be peas, sugar snap peas, and fava beans and snow peas. Those are the best fruit to grow from seed. And then I know you're thinking, nicole, not a fruit, but broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco. I think that's the way you say it. I put those in the fruit category because they come from a flower, so they're not a leaf, they're not a root. And I know they don't look like a fruit and they don't have seeds inside of them, but they come. They're literally a flower bud. That's what they are. So we put those in the same category, especially if you're talking about the cool season. So broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, and all the peas, those are perfect fruit plants for the cool season. Now, the cold season, that's where you're gonna get me. There really is not a fruit plant to grow right now. You're not gonna get a harvest from this. But you could just like we do with the root crops, where we put them in the ground right now to get a harvest later, you could do the same thing with peas. So put the peas into the garden right now. They're not gonna grow too cold. You could cover them up with a frost cloth or with a cold frame, and then, boom, as soon as the soil warms, you're going to get these beautiful, nice peas coming out of the ground, and winter will have watered them for you. That's the coolest thing is, like, winter kind of freezes them, just holds them there, and then as soon as everything starts to thaw, it's going to do all the watering for you, and then, boom, you end up with peas way before everybody else. So that's kind of my hack with growing those things. When you're in a cold season is starting from seed, even when it's freezing cold, so that you get a jump on the spring season. So there you have it. Cool, warm, cold season. Something to plant in the leaves, roots, and fruit category in October. I told you, there's so much to grow this season. All right. At Gardenary, we are all about eating from the garden every single day of the year, no matter where you live. And I would love to teach you exactly how to do it. So you can go to gardenary.com, we have an incredible resource to get you started right away. And again, if you want to download that calendar, you can go to gardenary.com calendar that's going to show you dates and times, depending on where you live. Because gardening is totally regionally and locally specific. So don't get all your gardening advice from someone who lives in gardens in a totally different place than you. Thanks so much for watching. Tell me right below this video which thing you're the most excited for planting this October? Me. I'm going to plant tons of spinach. I love spinach. Not from the grocery, from the garden. So I'm about to put in a ton of seeds so that I don't have to buy it anymore for like months on end. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time. Thanks so much for listening to the Grow youw Self podcast. You can keep listening anywhere. You love getting your podcast delivered on Apple podcasts on Spotify, iHeartRadio, you name it, we are there for you. And if you want to read the notes and get our free resources to help you grow more, you can go to gardenary. Com Podcast.