Video: Build Your Raised Bed Vegetable Garden in the Fall

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The fall is a great time to redesign and or build your raised bed vegetable garden. It is a lot cooler out and that makes the work so much easier! Fall is the time to clear out spent vegetables and remove debris. It is also the best time to build and redesign. Preparing raised bed frames now and building up the soil in the fall will provide you with ready to go vegetable planting beds come the spring.

You can also plant a lot of vegetables in the fall. You can put down collard green and kales. You can plant garlic, leeks and onions. Many greens can handle hard frosts and freezing and they will start producing for you in the spring. If you have time, before heavy frosts, you can plant radishes and lettuces. If you have enough time you might even get in a round of peas.

Video: Swiss Chard: A Spring, Summer & Fall Vegetable

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Swiss chard is a cool weather crop I plant in the spring. I have been harvesting it since late spring, through the summer and take a look at how it is doing now in the fall. It is a great greens crop that you can harvest over 3 seasons. The variety I am growing is 'Bright Lights'.

Video: Planting Fall Garlic in Earth/Raised Beds

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Garlic is a great fall crop. In Maryland, September - early October is a great time to plant fall garlic.

You can simply plant the garlic found in your grocery store. If you have time, you can order your garlic from catalogs or online and choose from over 100 varieties.

Planting standard is about 4 inches deep but you can go a little more shallower where the winters don't deep freeze your garden.

Garlic needs a minimum of 2 weeks of 40 degree or colder weather. Garlic needs this as a natural process. The cold weather prepares it to form large bulbs come spring.

Here is my video showing you how to plant garlic in a raised bed. Fall planting is a great idea! You'll get spring greens for salads and th bulbs will come the end of spring.

Remaking a Raised Bed Herb Garden

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I remade my 10 year old herb garden. The video shows you how overgrown it was and the process for remaking it. I built a 2x6x8 raised bed garden frame and framed in the new herb garden. Fall is a great time to redo your garden.

How to Quickly and Easily Build A Raisded Bed Garden Frame

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The video explains it all. You can make frames for raised beds quickly, easily and cheaply. I recommend them for your garden. No better time to build them but in the fall for next season.