21 Vegetables to Plant in September!

It's September, so it's too late to put anything into the garden, right? No, there is so much you can plant this month and I'm gonna show you everything we're putting into our garden, our clients' gardens, so that you can do the exact same, no matter where you're growing. If you've read my book, Leaves, Roots, and Fruit, you know I love to divide plants this way because it really helps simplify the process of picking what to plant and also gives you a warning in advance of how hard this plant will be to grow, how long it will need to be in the garden. So let's kick it off with leaves first. Leaves are gonna be so easy to grow in September and most leafy plants we can harvest from within 45 days of planting, up to 60, 75 days after you plant those. And the asparagus that can all be planted from seed put directly in the garden. So spinach, arugula, any kind of romaine lettuce or spring mix, all those lettuces can be direct seeded into the garden in September. You'll be able to harvest little small leaves from these plants within about 45 days and you'll get to harvest from these again and again for 60, 65, 70, 75 days. Most of these plants will make it through the cold and frost, but they won't last if it gets really, really cold for a long time in the low 20s or even the upper 20s. So you wanna plant these now and get some good harvest and then you can cover these up if there is a chance of frost to help the plants last longer. More leaves that you can grow this season would be Swiss chard and kale. These are biennial plants, so they're actually gonna last a little bit longer than those lettuces. They've got what we call Savoy leaves, bumpy leaves, and that gives them a little bit more tolerance of cold weather and frost and ice and makes them super great plants to plant right now because you'll get to enjoy them for a very, very long time. All right, so all those lettuces plus cilantro, dill, parsley, kale, and Swiss chard. And then of course there are chives. Chives are such a good steady herb. I don't think there's a season besides like deathly cold when chives don't thrive. So chives can go into the garden pretty much anytime, but especially now they'll do great. Let's move on to the root crops. We have first the root crops you can start from seed, and that's gonna be carrots and beets and radishes. These can all be directly seeded in the garden in order to get a harvest before it gets too cold. So especially your radishes, if you plant those now, you'll be able to harvest within 45 to 60 days. Beets are gonna take longer and so will carrots, but you can still get a harvest from 75 days on. Give them proper spacing to begin with so you don't have to thin them and slow down their growing process in the middle. And give these more sun than you do your leafy plants. More root crops that you can grow are in the amaryllis family. You've got garlic and onions. So garlic is perfect. In fact, the time to plant garlic is either this month or next if you're in the Northern Hemisphere. And garlic needs to be planted by cloves. And those cloves are gonna take a long time, so you might get some garlic greens before we get to the end of the year. But for most of us, that garlic's just gonna sit dormant until it starts to sprout in early spring and then give us a summer harvest next year. Onions are the same. If you're in a warmer place, you might be able to get onions before the end of the year. If you're in a cooler place, the onion will kind of sit there and lie dormant and then really take off in the early spring. All right, next up are our fruiting crops. Now, I have some unconventional fruiting crops that you're gonna think, Nicole, I don't think that's a fruit. But it's actually a flower, so we're gonna count it because flowers become fruit, right? So broccoli, cauliflower, Romanesco, all of these brassica plants that actually form a flower head that we harvest and eat, these all I count in the fruit category, one, because they're large, two, because they take over 90 days, and three, because the part you're eating is not the leaf or the root. You're eating the flower. The easier fruit to grow in September is sugar snap peas, snow peas, and fava beans. These you can plant directly by seed into the garden. These are super easy to grow. You grow them right up a trellis if you're using the vining style, and you'll be able to get a harvest in about 75 to 90 days. All right, you've seen all the things that we planted in our gardens over the last few weeks that we're gonna grow through September and October, even into November and December. So whether you're in a cool place, a warm place, or somewhere in between, there's something you can put into the garden this season that can last you for months to come. If you wanna get the dates for when to plant all the things in your garden, you gotta check out the Gardenery Calendar. You can get it at gardenery.com slash calendar, or we'll put the link for it right below this video. Thanks so much for watching The Gardenery Channel. Be sure to hit that thumbs up. Tell me what you're gonna plant to where you live in September in the comments below. And then, you know, subscribe if you're into that kind of thing. I'll see you next time.