Mississippi ’s fat soil , rainfall and quick temperature sustain productive fall vegetable garden . plant life fall gardens in the late summer and quality varieties that mature apace . Warm - season crops may be harvested until temperatures drop below freezing — normally in late dusk except on the warm Gulf Coast . you may rise cool - conditions veg plants successfully in Mississippi into December and January , if pass some protection .
Warm-Season Plants
In Mississippi , plant affectionate - season vegetables in midsummer for nightfall harvesting . Tomatoes , gumbo , white pepper , bush beans and mad apple should be plant in mid - July . select variety that mature in 75 24-hour interval or less to see a crop before first - frost . Use seedlings rather of come for these vegetable . just warm - weather varietal choices for a Mississippi fall garden include Better Boy , Cherry Grande , Celebrity , Sweet 100 and Mountain Spring tomatoes , Contender bush fleeceable beans , and TAM mild jalapeño and banana tree peppers . Because the vegetable transplantation ’s roots will be shallow during the first month of growing when the weather condition is red-hot , water the transplants daily using a soaker hose or drip mold irrigation .
Cool-Season Plants
Plant coolheaded - time of year vegetable in mid to tardy summer for fall garden . Vegetables such as broccoli , beets , Brussels shoot , cabbage and cauliflower postulate longer to mature than leafy fall vegetables and should be plant in August . Mississippi gardeners come up that these crops develop better sense of taste and are more productive by senesce in cool declination conditions than similar spring crops .
Leafy veg can be planted in September . Choose transplants for vegetable other than leafy 1 . The Alabama Cooperative Extension Service , supporting areas with growing conditions similar to Mississippi , recommend Green Comet and Green Duke broccoli variety ; Snowball , Snow Crown , Violet Queen cauliflower plants ; and leafy varieties like Blackseeded Simpson , Salad Bowl , Red Sails Bibb lettuce and Bloomsdale Longstanding spinach . nerveless - time of year vegetables tolerate Robert Frost but need protection from freezing temperatures . apply a row cover cloth or sheets when nighttime temperatures are below 32 degrees Fahrenheit . Keep nerveless time of year vegetable plants moist with everyday tearing until day temperatures pretermit below 80 F.
Fall Herbs
Herbs complement light vegetables in preparation and salads . Treat basil , dill and fennel as tender - weather crop . Mint , sage , oregano , cilantro , piquant and Petroselinum crispum act like cool time of year vegetables . Rosemary is a recurrent herb that becomes a modest bush in Mississippi gardens . Except for Basil the Great , herbaceous plant plants require less water in a fall garden than vegetable flora .
