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Fall/Winter Vegetables: John Dromgoole

fall vegetable seeds and transplants John Dromgoole Central Texas Gardener
Fall is an excellent time in Texas to grow vegetables from seeds or transplants.
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Starting from seed lets you grow varieties that may not be available as plants and is also very inexpensive.
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However, if you start too close to first frost, transplants are much easier. Be sure to keep floating row cover handy to suspend over hoops or other structure to keep plants warm (especially seedlings) when temperatures close to freezing are expected.

Start beets, carrots, radishes from seed

Seed or transplant: arugula, cilantro, parsley
Transplant: parsley (easiest), rosemary
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Annual (and can re-seed): arugula, cilantro

Annual or biennial (can re-seed): parsley

Seed or transplant: Swiss chard, Pak choi
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Perennial: rosemary (though check for hardy varieties; some require spring planting)

Plant strawberries in November
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Get Texas A&M AgriLife Extension’s planting guides for Central Texas.

And these are great books to guide you for soil prep, fertilizing, planting, pest control and harvesting.
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