What to Plant in Texas for Fall 🍁 15+ Vegetables to Plant NOW!.

Hi there, I'm Kara and I'm gardening in Zone 9A just north of Austin in Georgetown, Texas. Today we have got to get all of my remaining seeds in the ground for the fall veggie garden. Let me show you what we're going to be doing today. Alright so today we've got to get all of the seeds in the ground. So yesterday I spent quite a bit of time inside in the AC in my office getting things prepared for what I was going to plant today because the best gardens start with the best plans. What you'll want to do is sketch out a rough plan and why the reason I did this inside is because you guys know it's you know hitting triple digits. What I've done is made a sketch of my beds and what I want to plant where. So that's what is here on this plan and then I got my seed packets and organized them by which bed they go to. I also went ahead and got my markers for each bed and what's going to be planted in them. That way those are already ready to go and I can just stick them straight in the ground. I obviously didn't want to be outside too long today because it's going to be super hot so the goal is just to get everything planted. So for example this says side bed yard, I put a little sticky note on there and then I got all of my packets for that particular bed, put them together here in this paper clip, went ahead and put the date that I'm planting, the name of the plant and then have them all right here and then side bed yard corresponds to right here, side yard and then I have my plan here of what's going where. So I can just quickly look, boom, got this, got my seed packet and then we're ready to roll. So doing it this way just gets you super organized, it gets you less time out in the heat because none of us want to be out in the garden right now in August in Texas, it is so hot. Hoping it looks like maybe what, maybe ten more days of these triple digits, that's what I mean we're hoping, that's it. And then we'll be cooling off at the cold front and it'll be 98 degrees, yay! So let's spend as little time as we can out here but I want to tell you my process and how I do this so that if you're new to planting seeds you'll know what to do. First things first, I have some exciting stuff here. I actually planted these peanuts back in the spring and I don't even know if I have a, if I have a marker, it's probably buried in here somewhere. I want to say I probably planted them around March 20th-ish, that's usually when I try to aim for my plantings. But what I want to do today is get these hopefully picked out. Let's go ahead, we're going to pull some together. This is my first time planting peanuts and I just want to see what actually happened because it's been about 150 days and I hate to pull these because they're so beautiful and green. They're like one of the only green things but I'm just going to gently tug and see if we have, oh yeah, look at this y'all, what? Look at all these peanuts. So basically, if you didn't know, peanuts grow underground and so here we go. Let's try and see if we can crack them open. Look at that. So these are all going to be filled. Okay, I'm excited, this is fun. So if you haven't grown these before, I got these seeds from Southern Exposure, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. I feel sad to pull all this beautiful greenery out of here but it's got to go. I think what I'll do next season, and I talked about this I think on my last video, is that I'm going to plant these peanuts over there in that herb garden where I won't even have to pull them this early and give them even more time because it looks like they maybe could have even used a little more time because it looks like some of them are still developing. Which is crazy because they've been growing them forever. So maybe they needed a little more time. I honestly got these as a trial because my husband eats so much peanut butter and I thought, well, maybe I can make some but I don't know how much peanut butter I'm going to make with this. Not very much. I wonder if there's some in here that I missed. Ooh, look at those worms. Good soil. Okay, on to this bed of peanuts right here. Let's see how many we can get out of here. This one looks like it has more so far. My goodness, shake off the dirt here. Oh yeah, this has quite a bit more on it than that other plant. I don't know why. Maybe it gets more sun over here, it needed that. That's quite a bit right there. Looking good. Right, look at all this vines, it takes up a lot of space so if you had a lot more space than I do, maybe like out on some acreage, or not even acreage but a little more space, I'm sure you could get a lot more peanuts than I'm getting. Okay, here's the great peanut harvest of 2026 along with one that was trying to start a new plant. So all of that pile of greens, which, oh I'm so sad, those were so pretty, gave us this many peanuts. And so each of these are full of maybe three or four, you know, little peanuts in each one. So there you go. If you want to grow them, not much to it, just stick them in the ground and let them chill for 150 days, you'll have beautiful greenery in your August garden and then you'll be rewarded with some peanuts. I think that was fun. So hope y'all enjoyed looking at how that goes. Never grown those so I thought it'd be fun to show them. Anyways, so now we've got room in our beds to get this whole shebang going. And boy do we need to get going, it's already steaming hot. So let's start, actually we want to start right here on this side because it's already in the sun so let's start where it's going to be the hottest. So first things first, let me get, this is the front bed, middle back front, this is the front. Let me show you what we're going to plant. Okay so in that front bed that I showed you where the sun is beaming in, the first thing we're going to plant are these magic cushaw pumpkins and they are going to vine up on the trellis so they'll be up and out of the way and go over the trellis. These, they want soil temps, it says from 70 to 95 degrees and sown half inch to one inch deep and they emerge in five to ten days. This is from Southern Exposure, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. I've been getting lots of questions about where I get my seeds from and I like to try different places, that way I can see, you know, what germinates the best, what comes up the best, what makes the best production. And so this year I tried out this seed company and so far I'm really impressed. The peanuts we just picked were also from here. I think they were called like Virginia, I can't remember the name, I'll pop it up on the screen, I'll look at it, Virginia something. But anyways, this is this for the pumpkins and then also, so that's going to be on the outside of the trellis and then underneath the trellis I'm going to plant these trombocino squash. I did these in the spring and they were awesome and the only thing is, of course, is the vine borers got them, so we're going to give them a go again. I'm going to be more diligent, I always say this every year, but I'm going to be more diligent to make sure they're not getting my plants, so just going to have to do that. So this is going to go on the underside and then I'm going to actually put this, let me see where I said I was going to put this, this is why I have a plan. Oh, so when the trombocino goes up, next thing I'm going to do, which this will be October, I always plant garlic bulbs, I get garlic here probably in September is when I'm going to order my garlic and then I'm going to plant bulbs inside of where the trombocino is going up, then I'm going to have bulbs of garlic and then so in front of the garlic, just to have some beautiful pollinators, I'm going to put this right on the very edge, this calendula and so we're going to plant those seeds today. So these three are what we're doing and that's on the front bedside, so let's get going. So basically what we're going to do is just dig a trench right here up against this trellis and this is where the pumpkins are going to go. I just take the end, I have this shovel here and I just take the end of my shovel, it has this nice little hook and that'll dig my one inch trench. So just take it right here and go along. By the way, this morning I came out and I've already watered in my soil, so these seeds have a nice moist place to land, which is what you want, so make sure you do that before you get to planting. All right, we've got our one inch trench here, then we're going to grab our seed packet of our magic cushaw pumpkins, let me show you what these look like. So there you go and then we're just going to pop them down in and I'm going to do about, well those came together, one about every maybe three inches and you're probably thinking, wow that's close together. Well yeah, but if I have squash bind borer damage and I lose a few, then at least I have some to back up on. So I would say about for my garden, you can do as, you know, your spacing as you wish, but for me I don't have that much space, so I'm going to take advantage and plant as close as I can. Can always take out plants, but I can't ever put any back in once it's time to plant. All right, so I don't know, that was probably about 10 seeds and then you're just going to take your hand and do like this and cover them up and for the sake of time, after we're done planting everything, I will come back in and water everything in. I'm not going to do it right now because we're trying to beat the heat. All right, so last thing for that, simple as, get our marker here that I already made inside while it was nice and cool and just place it right here so we remember what we planted. Done. All right, let's pop over to the other side and do the trombocino squash. All right, so here's our trombocino and I'll just plant the rest of what I have here, which isn't very many. So one, two, three, four, five, six. We have six seeds to plant, so let's space those out accordingly. One, two, I'm going to just put them in the middle of these. Three, four, five, six. Cover it up, get our marker and put it in there. Okay, and then like I said, all of this right here is all going to be garlic in October is when we plant those. So I'm just going to make some areas here. I would say right along this drip hose is where I'm going to put some seeds here on the outside. Just kind of make a little trench with my hand. Look at that worm wiggling around. Let's see how deep these need to go. Quarter inch to half inch, so not very deep for the calendula. Ah, of course I get one little breeze right when I do the seeds. Here's what they look like. So I'll just pop these in every so often right next to that worm. I'll get a few more. Okay, cover them up, put a marker. Okay, next up is going to be this bed right here. I'm calling this middle bed. So let's go see which ones we have to plant. I moved these over here in the shade. It's too hot over at the picnic table. So middle bed. On the trellis, I'm planting sunflowers. So I'm going to have some sunflowers go up that trellis right there. And then brussel sprouts will be behind them. But brussel sprouts cannot come out yet. It's still too hot as well as broccoli. So sunflowers are going to be on the trellis on the outside. And on the inside, I'm going to plant Delicata squash. And then on the outside, very outside right here, along the edge, I'm going to plant these mustard seeds. And they are going to help deter pests away. I got these at McIntyre's here in Georgetown. They're our local nursery. They've been in business like 50 years. So anyways, I got these in bulk from them. I'm going to plant those right along the edges to deter pests away from the brussel sprouts and broccoli. But today, what we're going to plant is mustard seed, sunflowers, and Delicata squash. So I have everything ready to go right here. I have my mustard seed label, my Delicata, and my sunflower. See how the planting yesterday, getting all that done, that just makes this move so much faster. And to be honest, y'all, I'm already just sweating out here. And it's early in the morning. It's just going to be so hot. So Delicata squash is from Baker Creek. The sunflowers I got at McIntyre's Garden Center. And they are the botanical interest. You could also get botanical interest online from like Epic Gardening. They sell these. So yeah, here we go. Okay, let's start with the sunflowers first. Mongolian giant. It says to plant these a quarter inch to half inch deep. So not too deep. So just take your trowel or whatever you want. You could even just use... I mean, honestly, it's not that deep. You could just use your hand. I'm just going to make a shallow... I want these... Actually, let's come out just a little more so they can be right up on that trellis. Kind of eyeball it here. That looks about right. Okay, so we'll just go all the way across to the very end. It says these are delicious seeds that are perfect for snacking. You can mix with dried fruit or you can leave it on the plant for birds to grab. I've seen people roast sunflowers. That looks good. And you probably know what sunflowers look like if you've ever eaten a sunflower seed. So there you go. All right, let's just pop these in. These love the heat so they'll be fun to grow. Plant these a little further apart because they're going to be giant and too close. And you just go all the way down just like everything else. And if you take anything away from this video, let me tell you this. Make sure right now in these triple digit horrible heat that you're coming out in the morning and the evening and watering these seeds in. They have to have moisture to germinate and they're going to have to have moisture over the next at least two weeks with our temps. So make sure that you're coming out and watering morning and evening. I've been coming out really late because it's been so hot, like nine at night. All right, here's our marker. Sunflower seeds in. Okay, and then I'm going to go on. Oh, actually, let's stay on this side so I can finish this side up. So right here along the edge is where I'm going to because this is going to be Brussels sprouts, but not yet. That'll be in September. They're inside in my office in seed cell trays and they're doing great, but it's not time for them yet. So let's put this mustard seed right here on the edge. And y'all, this is bulk seeds. This was $1.50 at McIntyre's. Super great deal on their bulk seeds. And it is a lot of seeds. Let me show you. Look how many seeds are in there. Can you see that for $1.50? Hundreds. Check out McIntyre's if you're close to me in Georgetown. Love them. All right, so we're just going to sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle, straight up chaos gardening all the way through. All right, they're all in. Let's cover them up and let's throw in our marker. All right, let's head to the other side and get Delicata in. All righty, Delicata squash going right up here against this side of the trellis. We're going about an inch deep on these squash seeds. Again, these Delicata squash are from Baker Creek. They're out of Missouri. Have very good luck with their seeds. I've used them for a long time. They have great, beautiful seed catalogs that you can get for free. These say these sprout in about five to ten days. Package on that Delicata. I love Delicata squash. They grow really well here. Okay, again, I'm probably going about, I don't know, three inches apart-ish. And my soil, if you didn't see in previous videos that I use, is from HEB. And I use the New Earth Top Shelf Compost. And then I top that with Fox Farm potting soil. I have used Fox Farm soil for about 20 years and it is my absolute favorite soil. It has great nutrition in it. Helps everything grow very well. It's a little more expensive. This is HEB. It's about $19.99 a bag. But what I do, if you're on a budget like me and you're spending all your money on groceries, what I do for my soil is, in my curbside order, I throw in one bag. So for my top soil, I just throw one bag in my curbside order every week. That way I already know it's part of my order. And then I'm not, you know, buying hundreds of dollars at one time. I'm just buying 20 every week. So that's my little tip if, you know, you want to spread it out for your budget. All right, so middle bed. Middle bed done. Front bed done. Now we're on to the back bed. Okay, here's the plan for the back bed. Trombocino squash is supposed to go on the inside, but I'm actually out of seeds. So we'll just scrap that. Here on the outside, these are Seminole pumpkins. I'm just going to add in a few more down here that I lost on the end. And then we're going to plant in front of that. We're going to plant borage right here along the edge. And then on the other side to match the side we just planted, I'm going to put more calendula on that edge. So it'll be pretty. So those will look the same. So calendula, borage, Seminole pumpkin. That's the plan. Here we go. All right, we've got our Seminole pumpkin. Just going to plant a few. Let's see where that one ends. Right in here. I think I'm going to plant four. And they're going to look just like every other squash seed. Just like that. Let me put one back. So we'll do one, two, three, four. These do really good here in Central Texas, these Seminole pumpkin. They're from the Machata family, which are actually a little bit more resistant to vine borers. I mean, they're still going to get them. So you're going to have to pay attention. Whoa, I actually didn't even make a marker for that. I forgot one. Oh, well, I know what it is because I already have them in line. Okay, and then next is going to be borage. This is what they look like. I got these from McIntyre's, but again, they're the botanical interest. You can get them online. And these need to go a quarter inch to half an inch deep. And they'll get about 36 inches tall. So up in here somewhere, look really pretty. So I'm just going to plant it along the edges. I love to have all of these pollinators in the garden. Obviously, it's super beneficial. And also, it's super beautiful. Who doesn't want to look at beautiful things? I do. And I'm just going to sprinkle them in. Okay, we've got right there to right there. Put our little marker. And we'll just continue down this way. I have some little chives there on the end already. You're just going to have to trust that I'm getting these seeds in here because you cannot see them. Okay, cover it up. And you can see how nice and moist my soil is because I've been watering it morning and evening. That's what you want. Okay, borage right here. And let's pop over to the other side and put in the calendula. So we planted calendula right here. So I want to put it right here. So I have a matching look right here next to this irrigation. Go ahead and put in the markers. Kind of put them at the beginning and end. That way I know where I started those. I'm just going to sprinkle the rest of this in here. Kind of spread it apart. Okay, cover them up real good. Okay, so we got all of the south bed planted. So next step, here's the most important thing you do today right here. Get everything watered in. And then we'll be back out tonight to water it all in some more. And in the morning and so on and so on and so on. Next up, we're going to go over to the side yard and get those planted up. All right, next up is going to be our raised bed that's over in the side garden. And I have three things I'm basically planting today. Main thing is carrots. I'm going to plant these purple dragon carrots from Baker Creek. I'm going to plant these Saint Valerie carrots from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. And I'm going to throw some zinnias in there for pollinators and color and beauty. Got my three markers ready to go. So let's head over and get that planted out. And maybe we can do it before the AC comes back on without all the racket. I wouldn't bet on it though. It's so loud over here. So sorry if you hear the AC. But my side yard is right here where the AC is. So the plan for here is to actually plant these zinnias here in the front. And I'm hoping they'll grow kind of tall and give this a little bit of shade. Because this bed over here gets so hot. The east sun comes in here in the evening and just beams right down on this. This is a garlic chive that I left in here. This is going to be celery right here. But those are inside the house right now. It's too hot for them to come out yet. So zinnias here. And then inside here is where we're going to plant St. Valerie and purple dragon. And I think purple dragon I'll put on the back side. Probably do a couple rows there. And then a couple rows right here of this. So let me go ahead and put markers. So remember St. Valerie's here. Whoops that's an old scarlet geranium. That's an old marker. I do reuse these. So if I have a good side I'll put the good side of the marker. So we'll put that there. And then we'll know right here it's going to be zinnias. All right. The carrots I'm just going to sprinkle in. They're very hard to see because they're little bitty seeds. And then I can just come back and thin those out. It's going to be kind of hard to get back in here but I'll get it done. So we'll do two. I've got some blackberries in here that are very pokey. All right just sprinkling these in chaos gardening style. Let's see where they come up, huh? Again key to this is going to be keeping your beds nice and moist. Water morning and night. And this bed I have to pay a lot of attention to because it dries out faster than others and it doesn't have irrigation. Okay those are planted. Next two rows and then I'll cover them all up. These St. Valerie did really good in the spring by the way. All right. Carrots are fun to plant. You just get going on them little bitty seeds. All right cover everything up. Okay dig a little trench right here. I'm going to stop it right here at the end because I want celery to go over there. So next up is going to be zinnias. All right we're just going to sprinkle these zinnia seeds all in here. Get them all nice and covered up and boom we're in business. All right this bed's planted out. Now we're going to do this one and then this side yard will be done. All right so I'm actually going to plant these I think right here on this end and down there on that end. So they've been soaking here in this water overnight. So I'm just going to make a little trench right here. So I think these will be pretty along the edge and then I'm probably going to plant some lettuces here in the near future. So I'm going to leave that middle section open. I'm just going to grab some which nice is these are really nice and big. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, let's plant ten here. Of course I only made one marker. I'm gonna have to go make another one. I'll forget for sure what I planted right here. Maybe y'all will remember. All right and then right down here let's plant some down here along this. This will be pretty right here. I don't know I don't know what this is. Pull this up. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. All right there's still some left in there but now I'm just going to set those up right there. Let's get everything watered in before I forget. It's already really hot today. We just can't catch a break from this heat. We can only hope that that El Nino is going to bring us some rain that they keep talking about. I sure hope so. All my new seeds and plants would love some rainwater. All right so just getting these watered in and then the last bed that we're going to actually do is the herb garden so we'll get on that next. All right the last bed that we actually have to plant is our herb bed and I've got English thyme to plant today, parsley, creeping thyme, cosmos, and cilantro. So let's take all these over there this big old pile. I'm not going to spread these out. I'm getting so hot y'all. I'm just like on to the next thing. So let's get over here and get them planted. The sun is coming out and I mean it's about to be a scorcher. 106 today with no end in sight. This is for all my dedicated gardeners doing their fall gardening in August. If you're like me, congratulations. We're all crazy together. All right let's plant some parsley right here in this area. Parsley likes nice cool temperatures and so that's why we're getting them planted now so they can be in here in our winter garden. I'll do three back there and I'll leave this for pretty flowers up here. Gracie! This is the parsley I'm planting. This giant Italy parsley is what the seeds look like. So we'll just sprinkle these right in here. Cover them up and pat them in. Let me look for my parsley label right here. Parsley, parsley. Okay all right and then right back here all along the house on this taller spot behind this basil which this basil usually kind of flops forward. Let me move it forward some. I am going to plant some English thyme back here and here's the seed packet that I have and I'm just going to make like a straight line. All right so we're going to plant thyme right back here. These are so tiny. I mean you can't even see them. There's just dirt all over my hands. I'm just sprinkling it all in here. Okay I guess I made one. There we go. Put it right there. Okay as for the rest of this I'm actually I've mentioned this before but I'm just going to sprinkle creeping thyme seed all throughout here and just see what comes up. We're going to chaos garden style it just sprinkling it all around. I want it to kind of like create a blanket of that. So yeah here we go. Let's see Eden Brothers. Like I said I just buy from whoever and see what works. All right these are tiny honey. I'm literally just going to sprinkle them all around. We'll see what happens. It may do something. It may do nothing. We'll never know until we try. That's the joy about gardening right? It's kind of a mystery. All right put a little bit of faith in that because who knows those are just all over. So I'm not even going to put markers. I'm just going to remember famous last words. Let's see what else so English thyme parsley. Oh I have I have mint seeds and these will not go in the herb garden. A word of the wise if you ever plant mint do not plant mint in a bed. Always always always always in a container. These will spread and take over your entire yard. Mint will. Do not plant it in a bed in a container somewhere you want it to stay. So these are not going in the herb bed. I just put them with the herbs because I know I need to plant them. Okay next up is cilantro and I think for cilantro it needs to go back here in this sunny section. So I'm going to plant it back there along the back side. Probably a couple rows of it just in this blank space where all this nutsedge is growing. Talk about a nemesis. Can't stand nutsedge. Can't ever get rid of it. All right so these will go there and then along here along the front I'm going to plant those pretty cosmos. So here we go and here's what cilantro seeds look like. The thing about cilantro is when it's too hot it bolts and so that's why we're planting it in the fall to hopefully make it last longer because it's gonna hopefully eventually get cooler than it is right now. Holy moly. All right that's probably enough. Cilantro gets crazy. All right and then let's plant some cosmos here in the front just for some pretty color. There we go. Last thing and I'm glad because I'm hot and I'm tired but I'm glad to have this all done because after this week I have two teenagers who are in marching band and so after this begins band insanity and we will be so busy. So gotta get it done. This is how the cosmos seeds look. We're just gonna sprinkle them through. They almost look like cut up pine needles. Sprinkle them through here. That's it. Cover them up and that my friends is the last of the fall garden planting for August. All right so we got this entire south bed planted. All this in here is done ready to go. We got the side yard planted all here all here and then all of the herb garden and that concludes the seeds for the August garden. I hope this gave you a great idea of what you can be planting in your garden and look forward to hearing how you're burning up alongside me. If you enjoyed this video make sure to like and follow for more helpful gardening tips. Let's grow together.