You should still be getting some summer crops to do well, like tomatoes, peppers and sweet potatoes. In the fall and winter garden, remember to water when times are drier.

Here are some veggies that prefer October over March:

Broccoli: Plant transplants now through December.
Brussels sprouts: Harvest can begin about 85 days from planting seeds; shorter for transplants.
Carrots: Long and thin or short and stubby, carrots love winter.
Cauliflower: These are fussier about temperatures and will bolt (go to seed) if an extended cold spell (35-50 degrees) is followed by warm weather. They also don’t like the moisture content to fluctuate widely.
Chinese cabbages: They will bolt (flower and go to seed) if there is an extended warm spell.
Collards: They can be grown in Florida’s warm season as well as cold, as they are very frost hardy.
Kale: Kale matures in two months.
Kohlrabi: They can be harvested about two months from direct seeding, when they are about 3 inches in diameter. The leaves are also edible.
Lettuce: There are many lettuces and they grow like crazy in the winter.
Onions: Bunching onions, leeks, shallots and bulbing onions — the GranX types that produce Florida Sweets and Vidalias — need to be planted in October in order to form the swollen roots next spring. Be sure to get short-day varieties. Garlic should also be planted in winter. Chives grow best in cool weather, too.
Peas: English peas, which need to be shelled, and sugar peas and snap peas, which have edible pods, thrive in cool, moist weather.
Spinach: This vegetable prefers very cold soil to germinate.
Swiss chard: You can harvest leaves 60 days from seeding; steam the leaf and chop the midrib. Don’t cook Swiss chard in an aluminum pot; the chard contains oxalic acid, which will discolor the pot.
Turnips: These mature in two months from direct-seeding; they germinate in less than a week.

When choosing vegetable plants for fall planting, you will need to first check the maturity time from seedling to mature fruit and then will need to know when your typical first frost is. Late August is OK to plant tomatoes and beans, watermelons and cantaloupes, as temperatures begin to cool. In mid- to late September, you can start planting such things as lettuce, Swiss chard, and root crops. Into October look at planting onions, lettuces, greens, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and garlic. Into early November you can even replant more of those cool season crops. Keep some crop covers handy for any early frosts that might sneak in. Happy planting!

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