Planning Your Georgia Fall Garden

Although we are in the middle of a hot summer it is time to think about your fall garden.   We have put together a list of “tried and true” cultivars of cool-season vegetables.  These recommendations come from UGA’s Vegetable Planting Chart.  The transplants or seeds should be easy to find at your local feed-and-seed store or easy to order from seed catalogs.

Broccoli – Marathon, Packman, Patriot, Premium Crop, Bravo, Decathion

Cabbage – Blue Dynasty, Bravo, Early Round Dutch, Rio Verde, Green Jewel

Carrot – Chantenay, Scarlet Nantes, Sweetbites, Sweet Delight

Cauliflower – Absolute, Early Snowball, Graffiti (purple), White Magic, Symphony

Collard Greens – Blue Max, Georgia Southern, Hevi-Crop

Kale – Vates, Dwarf Siberian, Blue Armor, Blue Knight

Lettuce – Butterhead, Romaine, Buttercrunch

Mustard Greens – Florida Broadleaf, Southern Giant Curled, Red Giant, Savannah

Onion, Green – White Portugal

Onion, Dry Bulb – Burgundy, Excel, Grano, Red Creole, Savannah Sweet

Radish – Cherry Bell, Scarlet Globe, Champion

Spinach – Melody, Winter Bloomsdale

This is not an exclusive list of what will grow well in Georgia but a good list to start with.  If you have had great luck with other cultivars, please let us know.  It is always fun to see what others are growing successfully.  Your local UGA Extension office is full of Master Gardener volunteers who have fun trying new things; find out what they are growing!

Happy Fall Gardening!

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Becky Griffin

Community and School Garden Coordinator at UGA Extension

Becky Griffin helps school and community gardeners succeed! This includes organizing school garden teacher training with county agents, assisting schools with STE(A)M goals, and creating resources on starting and sustaining successful gardens.

Becky is a Georgia Certified Beekeeper and works with community and school gardeners to increase beneficial insect habitat.She is the coordinator of the Great Georgia Pollinator Census, happening this year on August 19th and 20th, 2022.She is also part of UGA's Native Plants and Beneficial Insect Working Group.

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