My Favorite Fall Plant Ideas in One Seed Collection

Fall gardening is the absolute best, and I'm so excited to tell you we've created an entire line of seeds to plant in your fall garden based on my top plants to grow this gardening season.

Our fall collection is ready to ship out and grow inside your garden. Let's look at the wonderful seeds included in our collection and when you can plant them.

What to Plant as Soon as Your Average Daily Temperatures Fall Below 85°F

"Fall weather" can mean different things depending on where you live. For those of you in warmer climates, you'll need to wait until your temps dip below burning hot to plant many of the plants we typically associate with fall gardening.

Fortunately, our fall seed collection includes plants you can go ahead and grow as soon as your temps drop below 85°F (29.4°C). Those seeds include:

• Calendula
• Sage
• Arugula Continue sowing seeds until temps rise above
• Mizuna
• Mustard greens
• Nasturtiums
• Bunching onions
• Rainbow Swiss chard

You can continue sowing seeds for leafy greens like arugula and mizuna all the way until you're about 6 to 8 weeks out from your first frost date. Your salad bowls are about to get a lot more exciting!

Pro Tip:

If you don't already know your frost dates for your area, you can find them based on your zip code here. Your first frost date is not the day you have to shut your garden down for the season. Many of the plants in our Fall Seed Collection are frost-tolerant, if not frost-resistant. Knowing your frost date just helps you better plan when to get these plants settled into your garden.

What to Plant Once Your Average Daily Temperatures Fall Below 80°F

You can start to plant some of these cool season plants as soon as your temps beginning dropping below 80°F (26.7°C), but you might want to cover your garden with shade cloth until sweater weather actually arrives.

Here are the seeds you can plant when you're moving into cool weather for a fall harvest:

• Bloomsdale long-standing spinach
• Curled parsley
• Flat-leaf parsley
• Slow-bolt cilantro
• Bouquet dill
• Fennel
• Gourmet lettuce mix
• Green leaf lettuce
• Red leaf lettuce
• Butterhead lettuce
• Parris Island Romaine lettuce
• Bibb lettuce
• Chinese cabbage

You can continue sowing seeds for fast-growing annuals like cilantro, lettuce, and spinach until you're about 4 weeks away from your anticipated first frost.

If you plant even a fraction of these seeds in your garden, you're going to have the most amazing homegrown salads for the next couple of months.

What to Plant When You're a Couple Months out from Your First Frost Date

You can start seeds for plants like kale, broccoli, and cauliflower when you're 12 to 14 weeks out from your first anticipated frost. These plants are frost-tolerant, so you don't need to worry about having them in your garden on chilly fall nights. By the way, our fall seed collection contains two different types of kale, Tuscan kale (aka Lacinato or dinosaur kale) and curly kale.

When you're 10 to 12 weeks from your first frost, you can start sowing carrot seeds in your garden beds. You can continue planting carrots even closer to your frost date because carrots are frost-hardy. Your harvest will actually taste even better after a light freeze. Our fall seed collection includes Danvers carrots and a rainbow carrot blend.

What to Plant in Fall 6 to 8 Weeks Before Your First Frost

As you move closer to your first frost date, you enter prime root growing time. Our fall seed collection includes the following roots, in addition to carrots:

• Beets
• French breakfast radishes
• Radish mix

Again, these plants can take the cold, so you don't need to worry about them as you get closer and closer to wintry weather.

If you live in a mild climate, you can also plant bunching onions now for a spring harvest.

Get ready for a super fun fall harvest when it's time to pull up your roots!

Order Your Fall Seed Packs!

I'm so thrilled that I'm able to take all of my favorite fall plants (35 plants in total), put them inside little seed envelopes, and ship them right to you! Each seed packet includes detailed instructions for how to plant, tend, and harvest your fall plants. All of our seeds are certified USDA organic and non-GMO.

We're also throwing in tons of support to make sure even the most beginner gardeners know how to start growing these seeds. When you shop the collection, you'll also get our Root Growing Guide, our Salad Garden Guide, our Seed Growing Guide (which breaks down the steps to plant, tend, and harvest each of our fall seeds), and our Fall Planting Plans.

I can't wait to plant and grow these fall favorites alongside you in my own garden!