It all depends on where you live of course.
If you live here in East Texas then it is time to plant, just certain things that is. Vegges that do well in cool weather, or even a freeze can be planted now.
Yesterday my Dad and the boys set out onion plants. We also just bought cabbage and broccoli plants yesterday, but i am not sure if they ended up getting those planted in or not yet.
But if they didn't get those in yet they will soon.
Another good thing to plant now would be cauliflower plants, and radishes would do fine.
We planted our garlic bulbs back in October and they are growing now and doing good. When the spring weather hits they will really take off.
Also we have in turnips, collard greens, and mustard greens that we planted in the fall time ( i think it was Sept.) They have done well and we have got lots of greens to eat off of them. Now the turnips bottoms are getting big and we are eating them. Very yummy. Not every one is use to eating the turnip greens ( i believe that's a real East Texas thing), but we eat the greens early on when they are young and tender, and then when the turnip it self gets big we start eating them. To pick the turnip greens with out setting back the plant, you just randomly pick the bigger leaves. ( not cut the whole top off as you would for the spinach or swish chard plants.
A couple other things that could be planted very soon would be beets and carrots.
Here in our neck of the woods I do not get that long of break from gardening as my Northern counter parts do. But whats nice about this is that we have fresh garden vegges all the more. There really is not much time at all that you could not have something in the garden here. But i usually am so tried of gardening by the time summer is over, that the last thing i want to think about is fall gardening. So we do not always put something in in the fall time, and if we do it is just a few rows. I did it this year because i really wanted something in the garden while my Dad and Mom were here from the frozen North. ( sorry all you fellow Albertans! :)
One thing nice about fall and winter gardening is that it takes much less up keep. You don't have to worry about watering ( i only did to get the plants started because it was dry when we planted), and no weeding hardly at all.
Thanks again for listening to me ramble!! Maybe you can use this gardening bits of info if you live around here or with like weather. But if not hope you enjoyed any way!!
In Him,
Mae
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