🍁 FALL (September–November) Garden Tasks

This is Austin’s best growing season—mild temperatures, fewer pests, and long harvest windows.

Garden Tasks

• Replant warm-season crops for fall harvest in early September:

  
  

  • Tomatoes, peppers, squash

  
  

• Restart cool-season crops in October–November.

• Refresh soil with compost after summer exhaustion.

• Watch for fall armyworms in early fall.

Veggies to Plant in the Fall?

Warm-season (early September):

• Tomatoes: ‘Sweet 100’, ‘Celebrity’ (cherry tomatoes do best)

• Peppers: shishitos, poblanos

• Green beans: bush types (fast maturity)

• Summer squash: yellow, zucchini (fast harvest window)

Cool-season (October–November):

• Broccoli: ‘Packman’, ‘Green Magic’

• Cauliflower: ‘Snowball’, ‘Amazing’

• Cabbage: ‘Savoy’, ‘Early Jersey Wakefield’

• Carrots: ‘Nantes’, ‘Bolero’

• Beets: ‘Detroit Dark Red’, ‘Golden’

• Radishes: all varieties

• Lettuces: romaine, butterhead, mesclun mixes

• Garlic: plant in late October–November