(lively music) >>As the weather changes and temperatures begin to drop, you can continue your gardening all season long.

So, today, we're gonna be planting three different cool weather crops.

First, you wanna start off with a nice, even soil.

This is a mixture of compost and general soil, and you wanna make sure it's nice and loose, you guys.

Make sure it's nice and loose.

So we're gonna section off an area, just like so.

You know, just take you a little garden shovel and make you a space, and I like to cut mine into squares just like that.

You see that?

You can also use a sheet of paper, eight and a half by 11, and make you a square.

So, today, we're gonna start with arugula, and what I do is I simply just take a gardening shovel.

You can use your hands, and if you get starter plants, that's great, because, at this time of year, starting from seed could be a little tricky.

So we're just gonna take our arugula.

Plop it right down in the soil.

Give it a good base, just like that, okay?

And then we're gonna do another one right here.

Easy peasy.

Gardening can be fun, simple, and easy.

We have arugula.

Next, we're gonna plant leeks.

I'm gonna make another row here, and leeks can be interjected and interplanted with a lot of different crops.

They're so easy to grow and they don't require a lot.

Loosen up the root ball.

We're gonna take our hand, put it right down in there like so, and cover it up.

Give it a nice base, a nice little soft packing like so.

And one of my most favorite things to grow is cabbage, and, today, I'm gonna be planting some purple cabbage.

These are very frost tolerant, you guys.

They will take a frost and keep on moving.

So we're gonna take our cabbage plant and just plop it.

Break the root ball down a little bit and just plop it right in the ground.

Give it a strong base, just like so.

Give it a nice pressing, and what you're gonna do is water these and give 'em a little fertilizer.

I like to use a 10, 10, 10, which is an NPK, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and just water 'em in.

So, when growing your cool weather crops, you can expect to harvest all different times of year.

Like, the arugula, I like to cut them around the edges, and the middle part will keep growing, and you'll have salad all year long.

Our leeks, we're gonna put these in the ground now, and they will be available early spring of next year.

You'll have an early harvest.

You'll be ahead of the game.

Our cabbage is gonna come in next spring as well.

So, just take your time and plant different things at different stages, like this kale.

I'm gonna plant this and this is gonna come up all year long.

My cauliflower, it's gonna come up all year long.

So, remember, grow what you can grow, eat what you can eat, and live, love, and laugh.