(upbeat music) >>As the summer ends and fall fast approaches, now is a good time to think about what you're going to do with your fall garden.

One of my favorite things about fall gardening is it's much cooler.

It's less work, rather than your summer garden where you have to go out and prune a lot and do a lot of things.

Fall garden, you can just plant things and let them grow, such as your beets, your radishes, your carrots.

There are a ton of things that you can grow in the fall, so let's just get started.

One of the first things I like to consider when starting my fall garden is the soil conditions.

Whether you're a new gardener or an experienced gardener, you always want to make sure you have some good soil.

I take a little bit of my old and I mix it with the new, and it comes out just the way I like it.

And it also stretches your soil so you have more soil for less money.

We're on a budget, don't forget.

Second of all, check your first frost date.

That's the date where the ground starts to freeze up at night, the temperatures reach in the 30s and below.

So you want to make sure you have your seeds started well in advance before your first frost date.

If you don't know when that is, just look it up on the internet.

Type in your city and state and ask, "When is my first frost date?"

and it will tell you.

And you want to plant your seeds accordingly.

So today what we're going to do, we're going to start off by planting some seeds.

Whether you're using cups, containers, take what you have and make it work.

Okay?

So I'm going to fill this up, and this is my mixture of old and new soil.

(dirt crunching) It doesn't have to be rocket science, you guys.

Make it fun.

Get the kids involved.

Get your family and friends over.

(shovel knocking) So once you get your soil all nice in there, give it a little shake, a pressing, not a packing.

You don't want to over compress it because your water won't seep through.

(container crinkling) And then I water it a little bit, (water can clicking) just like so.

So the seeds already have a moisture base just like that.

And now we're going to plant the seeds.

We're going to start off with some radish.

And I always plant two to three per cell, so we're not waiting on plants to grow that are not going to grow.

Okay?

You can also direct sow these in the ground.

But if you're growing in an apartment or in a small space, you can grow these in containers as well.

Then you will put a thin layer (container crinkling) over top, just like so, and just give it a little tap, (fingers tapping) just like that.

Now what I'm going to do is use my seed tray to start several varieties of these.

So I'm going to put that one there, and then I'm going to start another one.

I'm going to plant lettuce.

I'm going to plant some beets.

And I'm even going to plant some beans for my fall garden.

So remember, starting your fall garden can be fun, easy, and you can do it.