When You Should Plant For Fall 

Lovely - you posted this 2 years ago and it popped into my 7/8/24 feed right when I needed it! Good info, thank you. I’m gonna pop some summer & winter squash into seed trays today. 👍🏻

Try this for simple tomato sauce( came from the internet somewhere), put any tomato( forget peeling), chopped onions, peppers if you like, browned meat if you like, whatever seasoning you like, pressure cook ( Instant Pot is good) for 20 minutes, use immersion blender to purée. No need to remove seeds, can use tomatoes with tough skins, will all be tender, but, thinner than most sauces. Reduce on stove or add a thickener. Perfect for those forgotten freezer tomatoes with thick skins that need to go!

Count me in as one who loves salt on a melon, any melon. Try salt on an apple, it will change your world. And of course salt and pepper on a tomato is the only way to go.

It took me 5 years after I moved to Florida (from Maryland) to plant a fall garden! I got real tired of the mammoth weeds we get here in an empty plot, so two years ago I decided to have a year round garden. It was only successful with advice and inspiration from Hoss Tools! I’m a real southern, year round gardener, now!

Talked to a very polite gal at your business today. Gave me all the answers I needed. Thx for sharing for running a great vustomer service business@ Blessings, julie

This show and topic does have PERFECT timing!!! I just started doing fall gardening the last couple of years and I have yet to get my cabbage and broccoli planted at the right time! I’ve been late every year and ironically those are my families favorites! Please do a show soon on when to get those cabbage and broccoli transplants started!! I’m in west central Georgia, Harris County, so I’m not too far off from the same Planting times as you are….. if any! ALWAYS LOVE THE SHOW WHEN MS SHELIA IS ON!!! Great information, and lots of it!! THANKS HOSS!!👍😃👍

I'm with Miss Hoss. Salt on the watermelon. :)

Thank you for going over crops that are good for the fall. Just started my garden this spring and was wondering what I could plant. Very good information.

This helping me to get my mind right to get my fall garden in! I guess I’ll be buying me some seeds here ASAP ! Keep them coming great stuff thank you 😊

Like how y'all break that down & make it simple to figure out when to start planting again, thank you for sharing.

A lot of good information. Love having Ms Hoss on . Starting using her corn method last week and oh my goodness it’s so easy and good . The lady knows her stuff .

Just started my seeds for fall 2 days ago! Great minds think alike! I just recently found your channel and love it! Thanks for being there💕

Love this video. Live in South Georgia as well. We are relatively new to growing anything other than tomatoes, so this content is really up our alley. Please do more videos like this of when you guys plant what.

Great information - as always!!

Gardening is so weird this year! Heat didn’t set in till last week. I’ve had more pest problems than ever. My tomatoes are just starting to ripen. Tons of pods on my Lima Beans-just waiting for them to plump. Here’s hoping we all have great harvest despite all the odds! I refuse to be discouraged!🤪

Great show! I needed that info. Thanks.

I'm a middle of the watermelon eater myself! 2-3 get knocked down every week around my house. Love you guys

Dehydrated watermelon makes a great "candy like" treat. It's so good! It concentrates the sweetness and taste into bite size pieces. I slice long pieces about 5" x 5" or longer and about 1/4" thick and lay them on trays to dehydrate at 117°f for a few days or until rubbery. Then I use scissors and cut into 1"x 1" squares and dehydrate until crisp. Oh yum! Store in mason jars, vacuumed sealed. Good for many many years!

Another great show thank you guys 👏🏻

Really helped me out here in 7b, thanks guys.

Like I said before, I just love y'all! When I lived in Zone 9b, yes, we had a little longer warm season, but the flip side of that is there are a number of things that I can grow here in Zone 8b that won't grow at all there. And in Central Florida, you really had to be lucky - The end of July through October is usually the worst of hurricane season. I can't begin to tell you how many times I'd plant something only to have it decimated by a tropical storm or hurricane! While the weather can be challenging here, it seems like it's just a tad easier to deal with. Sheila!! I'm making curried zucchini pickles tomorrow - They are yummy!

Thank you for all the information

Fantastic information. Thank you and enjoy your watermelon ☺️.

Thanks I loved this information!

Planting squash and Mac Pack cucumbers now! We sell lots of produce got to keep it going! Got late half runner beans running now! Late tomatoes starting to bloom ! April we set out 900 Mountain fresh tomatoes! Made lots of bushels of tomatoes! Planted Rattle snake beans and Blue lake pole.still coming in lots! Love your videos! Thanks so much! Really helped a lot on the late stuff! Happy Planting! MARLENE Willoughby in Fair play SC zone 7!

Thanks for information got everything ready for. Fall just planted last tomato 🍅 pepper

Thank you for the great information.

We just crave Tajin on most fruit,especially watermelon and nectarines! Sweet, salty, hot spicy. 🥰

IN MY AREA ZONE 9B IN CENTRAL FLORIDA I CAN BASICALLY GROW YEAR ROUND AND I AM ENJOYING THAT BECAUSE I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO A LOT OF PLANTING THIS SPRING DUE TO SURGERIES AND THE PLACE I RENT SELLING BUT I HAVE BEEN TOLD WE CAN CONTINUE TO LIVE HERE IF WE WANT SO PLANTING I WILL BE DOING.

Have extra watermelon left? Cube it up put on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet cover with another piece of parchment and put in the freezer. When frozen remove and vacuum seal. You’ll be eating watermelon year round. Frozen watermelon cubed makes great ice cubes for lemonade and a really good frozen treat on a hot day!

Thank you! I will be growing more corn and peas in Alabama!

North GA here, I'll start most my fall garden @ the start of august. my Seminole pumpkins will go strong the entire season so I dont need to start a second crop as they produce all season. My summer squash and cucumbers have already been planted for the second run,and i'm still pulling abit from my 1rst cucumbers. Ill be planting out my fall crops the start of august. cole crops,bush beans. potato's,carrots & beats, followed by onions and garlic a couple months later

Funny you laugh at the thumping method have some crazy looks in the grocery store before 😆🤣

Yummy 😋 That looked good 👍

Another great video! I'm with Greg, don't salt my melon!

I cut opened a lemon drop watermelon last night. It was so cute and little. Yellow inside and out. did not take pics just ate it. It was good!

I'm with Momma Hoss on team salt! And to go even further...i like to add chopped up mint and a squeeze of lime juice...so good!

This year the weather in Texas has been weird. I have 1 greenhouse tunnel that I am planting seeds in. I am hoping to get 2 more pretty soon.

Great topic. 👍🏻

Very helpful, thank you

Fall/Winter gardening is my favorite! Being in south central Florida, we seldom get a frost or freeze.

Infoative show, and for that I’m great full, but just put a packet together of seeds we should buy relative to our zone. And when to plant, now that would be next level of helping gardeners grow! I would buy as I have before. I’m in zone 8 as well, 10 miles north of Savannah.

...aaand this is why ya'll are the 'Best Dadgum Gardening Show on the Internet' lol I think the [harvest window] is the part that is the hardest to find good info on for all the different vegetables when trying to put together a good succession plan. That would be a REALLY USEFUL tool to have, especially for items you haven't grown before. Maybe a chart that shows an estimated harvest window for each type of vegetable. I struggled with this a lot. I would have items started and ready to go in and the previous crop wouldn't be finished. The DTM doesn't really help you with that part. Anyway, thank you so much for all the time you put into these shows, etc. because you are truly 'helping people to grow their own food.' God Bless.

Right on with salt I’ve alway put salt on my watermelon also. For 65 yrs. or more.

Last year I didn't listen to locals who knew what they were talking about and I planted pumpkins second to third week of June and I had pumpkins ripening in mid-August. Here in excessive Arkansas heat 100-day pumpkins can turn into 70 and 80-day pumpkins. So this year I waited till July 3rd to put my seed in the ground, can't always go by the days of maturity on a plant package.

Right on

Good evening y’all!

This was a good guide for me I’m in Georgia but for my area the almanac puts my first frost at November 3…. I’m going to take a chance because I currently only have one butternut squash formed I’m going to drop a few more seeds and hope I can get a few more

The only thing that killed my tomatoes last year was the sunlight not coming over the fence and house enough in November, lol. Otherwise I think I could row year round. I had no idea I could start peppers this late, I'll give it a try!

My grandma used to say look for the bee sting

I just picked two. The tendril was brown and dried up and has been for a while. The bottom was somewhat yellow. They weren't nowhere near ripe. It can be frustrating. I wanted to pick them before this tropical storm came through. Oh well, still plenty on the vines.

That melon isn’t ripe yet... you got wait till they turn red... I learned something here. Thank you

That's a beautiful watermelon! Praise God

AWESOME AWESOME

Fall garden verry verry interesting. Maybe include preservation ideas for processing veggies somewhat immature when growing season ended too soon. Green tomatoes can make a tasty relish if I remember correctly. There may be more edible relishes etc for immature veggies that aren't ripening soon enough. Thanx again....

The more webbing marks (scaring) on a watermelon the better, that is what i was told when i was young and learning from a lifelong gardner in his late 60's. Supposedly everytime a bee visits the flower it will create more webbing on the fruit when it develops and will make the watermelon sweeter.

I always use salt on my watermelon!

I'm with Mrs. Hoss. I use salt on my watermelon.

I love watermelon with salt but rarely buy one. I have the hardest time getting a good one.

How do you know when to pull your Bella Rosa plants versus waiting to see if they’re going to make more?

Salt on a watermelon and black pepper on a cantalope :-)

Can you offer insight and advice into a project we are starting . We are starting an educational garden and food preservation classes as well as gardening classes. We just need some advice what would be the best way to begin the educational garden. Whether with all the veggies or with just certain ones. Would love to speak with you about it. Any advice that could get us on track right.

Watermelon with seeds taste sweeter

Try a bit is chili powder and a squeeze of lime juice on your watermelon.

As always another good video. I have a question though... Me and my neighbor both grew Sugar Baby watermelon this year for the first time. Neither of us got one bigger than a softball. We're new to growing watermelon. We're in Florida zone 9b and we grew in raised beds. Any help?

Question; does using trip tape with 12" spacing make any difference on crops with much closer spacing, say carrots or raddish?

I’m thinking about pulling up my drip tape and installing French drains.... I have another round of okree coming up but it keeps going under water every day this rain down here in the south is Insane I don’t know how I’m gonna grow anything outside of a green house .... my garden has had standing water at least 5 days a week since February and it hasn’t dried up enough to run the wheel hoe yet this year

Just curious, what about rutabagas and kohlrabi for planting times in the fall?

My pepper plants start kicking back into high gear when temps begin to drop in the fall.

Tried some of your water melons this year all doing well except the seedless only the pollinators germinated planted twice with no luck any advice

Just a question...are u talking about seeds being direct sown or sown to begin transplants in green house?

My ambrosia is silking now!

Oh, and the best watermelon is the one you’re going to eat next.

With regard to fall planting and frost dates: sure, you certainly dont want less time than time to maturity for a crop however, things slow down quite a bit when grown in the fall, so it takes longer for the crop than what is on the sticker. the maturity time as on the sticker is for when crop is grown in perfect conditions for growth of that crop.

AMEN, to NO SALT on your watermelon. If it needs salt, then its not a good melon,lol

Thinking of purchasing some okra seed from you, is it to late to plant it now in zone 8B? Southeast Alabama

I only plant late beans. My early beans never do well

Did I miss it? I didn't hear the part about the spray schedule.

Greg you didn't say that this was the best daggum garden show on the internet! I know it is though. :)

Does Miss hoss have speghetti sauce recipe

I'm in zone 8b, I'm wondering why do we plant potatoes February 14th? Can we not plant later than that and get more than 1 crop?

When should we get carrots, onions and garlic in? Can we plant potatoes for a fall garden?

One of ya needs a pumpkin patch. You know you want pumpkin pie

What's a second... Is this no longer the best dagum' garden show on the radio? .... And internet...?

I planted corn and fat roots are showing a little. I just cover it with dirt. What does that mean. I am in AZ.

LOL ask you what time it is and he tells me how to build a watch!

My corn stock has the pollinators on top but no corn🤔

What's the seedless watermelon accidentally found in the wild like the seedless oranges are in a Grove?

Wish you could do this for 6b

Beans do so much better in the fall did it last year and omg I canned so many jars best crop we ever got. My squash did better as weel

Every time I think about Growing some fall sweetcorn here in Northeast Florida all I could think about hurricane season nothing but make a man wanna commit himself to a mental institution after seeing all that corn Destroyed

Watermelon seeds are really good for you! Research it and chew them up! I’d rather have a seeded than a seedless!

You think salt on watermelon is bad? I have seen multiple people put pepper on watermelon.

Someone said two fingers in between stripes of watermelon!!

Mrs Hoss what is your channel? Would love to follow you too!

Sinnin and saltin!!

Greg: "I think it's a sin to put salt on a watermelon." 😂😂😂

You didn't say "best dog garn garden show on the internet and radio" :(

I must be a sinner cause I have to have salt on watermelon, cantaloupe, apple and peaches.

Gregg tried to play it cool, but that salt really bothered him 🤣. I'm a weirdo that likes watermelon non salted or salted, depending on the day.