Fall Gardening Resource Guide! Wait! It’s not fall yet, why would I be worried about my fall garden yet???
Well it turns out if you want fall garden on most parts of the northern hemisphere August is the time to begin.
Along with harvesting, preserving and storing your summer grown crops. You also have to start planting your fall crops and your need to start working on options for protecting those fall crops. That’s why I decided to create this Fall Gardening Resource Guide.
I know a lot of successful gardeners who are also wonderful bloggers. All these folks have blogs packed full of articles of all different aspects of gardening this time of year.
I sent out a message to all my blogging friends asking for their best fall gardening and related tasks posts. And boy did they come through! Turns out there are a lot of people that are very passionate about fall gardening. So this week I’ve created this Fall Gardening Resource Guide for you. I’ve included over 100 different posts, both from Stoney Acres and many other great blogs.
All the post revolve around 4 topics that should be on your mind this time of year: Fall planting, Season Extension, Canning and preserving, and storing your crops fresh. I’ve done my best to organize them in a manner that will be helpful to you! Enjoy!
Fall Gardening Resource Guide
Fall planting
August is the time to focus on most of your fall planting, the target date is the window between 8 to 6 weeks before your first average frost. For most of us here in the north that window will fall sometime in the month of August. Of course those of you that live in the warmer areas (think zones 8,9,10) your planting dates will be much later. But even in the warmer climates you want to start thinking about your fall gardens soon. Below is a list of different blog articles that will help you with your fall planting:
General Fall Garden Advice
9 crops you can plant in August for fall and winter harvest
13 Quick Growing Vegetables for Your Fall Garden
12 Vegetables To Plant NOW In Your Fall Garden
15 Frost Tolerant Vegetables to Grow in the Fall Garden
Time to start thinking about your Fall garden
What does the arrival of 10 hour days mean for your garden?
7 Tips for Preparing the Fall Garden
How to Plan a Successful Fall Garden
Transitioning The Garden From Summer To Fall
Starting a Fall Garden in the Sweltering Heat of Oklahoma
Know when to harvest these 25 organic vegetables
Gardening Where it is Cold (Zone 3)
Planning and Planting a Fall Garden
Planning {and planting} the fall garden
How I Prepared for the Fall Garden
When Should I Start My Seeds? Printable seed starting calendar
Crop Specific Posts
Growing Carrots for Winter Harvest
Growing Fall and Winer Carrots
Growing Lettuce in the Fall & Early Winter
Tips for Digging and Storing Sweet Potatoes
How to Grow and Preserve Pumpkins
Beginner’s Guide To Winter Squash
How to Grow Garlic – From Planting to Harvest
Growing, Harvesting, and Storing Garlic
Planting Garlic in the Fall Garden
Planting Organic Garlic: The Basics & Common Questions
Harvesting Dandelion Root Tea from your garden
How to Grow Swiss Chard in your Fall Garden
5 Vegetables to Plant Now For a Fall Harvest
Pod Casts:
Fall Gardening Prep 10 Tips to Improve Your Soil
Save Money With A Backyard Chicken Fall Garden [Podcast]
Planting a Fall Vegetable Garden
Season Extension
Unless you live in Zones 9 & 10 you are going to have to deal with frost this fall and winter (even you warm folks will have frost every once in a while. So you need to have a plan to deal with protecting your fall (and even early winter) crops from frost and cold temperatures as the year progresses! There are several different options for extending your season these include fabric row covers, cold frames, mini hoop houses, high hoops and green houses. Below is a list of several resources to help you learn how to build and use them:
Protecting your garden from Early Frost
Polytunnels: Extend Your Growing Season
Move a Portion of Your Garden South
Winter Growing Conditions in a Greenhouse
Make a Hoop House to Extend Your Growing Season
Canning & Preservation
Fall is also canning and preserving time! As your summer fruits and veggies start to finish off you will want to be putting them away for the winter. Below is a huge list of resources for canning and other food preservation methods:
Canning
Apples
Canning Apple Butter using a Crock Pot
Homemade Apple Butter in the Slow Cooker
How to Pressure Can Apple Pie Filling
Crockpot Apple Butter with Canning Instructions
Pears
Tomatoes
How to Make and Can Tomato Sauce
Carrots
Pickled Carrots with Ginger & Dill Recipe
Raw Water Packed Carrot Recipe
Pumpkin
Potatoes
Others
Chicken Bone Broth Soup with Canning Instructions
Cranberry Sauce with Canning Instructions
Fresh Beets Packed in Water Recipe
Pickled Beets with Dill Recipe
Freezing
Other Methods
8 Ways to Preserve Pumpkin at Home
9 Ways to Preserve Apples at Home
Dehydrating Foods Without Electricity
5 Simple Ways to Preserve Apples
A to Z Guide to Dehydrating Vegetables
How to Dehydrate Your Own Foods
Helpful Guide To Drying Homegrown Herbs
Preserving Green Beans- Leather Britches
Fresh Storage
Along with canning, freezing and drying you will also have many crops that can be stored fresh, garlic, onions, potatoes, carrots, pumpkins and all of the winter squashes are stored whole and fresh. Below I’ve included a bunch of different resources to teach you how to do this, weather you are using a root cellar or just a cool spot in your basement, this list contains a bunch of different posts to teach you how to store your crops for the winter:
Building and Using a Window Well Root Cellar
The 5 Easiest Vegetables to Store
How To Store Potatoes Most Efficiently
Five Foods to Store for Winter
How to Harvest, Cure and Store Onions
It’s a matter of having a Root Cellar
Root Cellars 101- Root Cellar Design and Use
10 Tips for Storing Vegetables Without a Root Cellar
Other Fall Garden Advice
Along with all the above resources, there are also things you need to be doing in the fall to prepare your home and garden for both the winter AND next spring. Here are some guides to help you there:
Five Steps to Get Your New Garden started this fall
8 Garden Tasks you should be doing this fall
5 Reasons why you should plant a garden next year
Preparing your Garden for Winter
Preparing the Garden fo Winter
Fall Leaves: A Valuable Soil Builder
Fall: The Perfect Time to Build Healthy Soil
Fall Blooming Flowers for the Bees
Cleaning and Sharpening Garden Tools
Fall Gardening Prep 10 Tips to Improve Your Soil
Basic Guide to Saving Seed From Your Garden
Well, I hope you found Fall Gardening Resource Guide helpful, I don’t often do these kinds of “round up” posts but I felt like there are so many great posts and articles floating around out there right now that we need a spot to put them all together and make them easy to get at!! If nothing else this will give you hours of reading enjoyment, Right!!
Did I miss some posts? Do you have a favorite site that helps you with your fall gardening? Please leave a link in the comments section and if the site owner agrees, I will add the post to this resource guide!
Growing Peas in the Fall
Wow! What a resource! I have bookmarked the page so I can continue to come back and reference all this great info you have compiled. Great job, thanks!
Thanks Cheryl, It was a surprisingly large amount of work!! I’m glad you like it (I’m also glad it’s done). Whew. . .