Planting my fall garden Sunday

Had a huge worm problem last year with broccoli. Anybody have any advice?

You can cook then leaves of broccoli & brussel sprouts just like you do with mustard greens.

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You can cook then leaves of broccoli & brussel sprouts just like you do with mustard greens

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Yes you can. I learned that from a janitor at my school a couple of years ago. I thought he was jerking my chain, but damn if he was right. No fall garden for me this year. I put down pumpkins instead of the regular fair.

My pumpkins are doing okay, I was watering them twice a day back in July/August though.

I'm planing broccoli, spinach, carrots, beets, and turnips this year

plan on seeding this weekend

Picked my first round of turnip greens yesterday and going to cook them tonight with the last of my deer from last season.

Lettuce, cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower are in and growing. Had to re plant beets and carrots because of bad seed held over from last year.

Should be picking first round of fall snap beans today and my purple hulls are setting right now.

Garden novice here. How do you seed? Do you use the little Jiffy peat pellets and then transplant a couple of weeks after the seeds sprout? By the way, organic seeds suck. 85% never sprout, at least in my brief experience.

I am new to the gardening thing. I just have a small bed, roughly 3x8.

I just pulled up the previous owners tomato and banana pepper plants, neither of which I have any interest in at the moment.

So since I just pulled those plants up, do I need to add new soil or anything?

I am mostly interested in broccoli, brussel sprouts and carrots.

I dont want to over-plant, so any suggestions on amounts is appreciated.

Can I grow bell peppers in the fall or is that more of a spring/summer thing?

Yeah, I've been vigilant with watering the pumpkins. I've got about a dozen male flowers, but no female ones yet. I've read that this is normal. It's my first time trying pumpkins.

They definitely love their water. I started out with seven dust to keep the bugs off, but that was keeping the bees away so I had to stop. I've had several small pumpkins develop (the size of a fig), and then they would turn yellow and die. I finally realized that they were being eaten by bugs. So now I'm back to putting seven dust on them and they seem to be doing great.