Texas's January Garden Guide | What to Plant Now for a Spring Harvest

Hey friends! If you’re gardening in Texas, January is the perfect time to get planting. With USDA Hardiness Zones ranging from 6a to 10b, your options depend on where you live, and this video breaks it all down for you.
What You’ll Learn:
Leafy Greens: Perfect for Texas’s cooler months, grow lettuce, kale, spinach, and Swiss chard in zones 8 to 11.
Root Vegetables: Carrots, radishes, beets, and turnips thrive in Texas’s diverse soils.
Fruiting Vegetables: Start tomatoes and peppers indoors in zones 8 to 10, or plant snap peas in cooler areas.
Herbs: Grow cost-effective crops like cilantro, parsley, dill, and basil based on your zone.
Key Tips:
Use mulch to retain moisture and regulate soil temperature, especially in sandy or clay soils.
Start fruiting crops like tomatoes and peppers indoors to get ahead.
Protect plants from cold snaps with row covers or frost blankets.
Watch this video to match crops to your zone and get the most out of Texas’s gardening season. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more zone-specific gardening advice!
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Get growing with this Texas-specific guide tailored to your zone!

[@Liz-og9gc]

Yessssss! Texas gardening is what I need! So many on the different coasts and we are not represented as much. Amanda @She's a Mad Gardener is very good about her Texas zone 8 garden. It is nice to see others! I am in North Texas as well. Thanks for the info and happy to have found you. 🤠

[@purtis99]

North Texas, East of Dallas

[@LowEffortGardening]

Thanks for the correction

[@vishalbadra8049]

Haha impatient gardeners , I am also one of them . 🌿

[@dorokaiyinvil5705]

So much waiting lol🤪

[@kaylinklimple2167]

I'm in Texas 8b zone. Our first freeze this winter - 27 degrees yesterday morning. Yes, greens, carrots, cabbage, kale do well this time of year. My peach tree needs some cold time!

[@BirdieBlrrrd]

My poor peach tree 😂😂😂

[@Theultrazombiekiller]

I am up in Amarillo, it was 5 degrees yesterday morning haha. My wife and I have a huge backyard garden/micro homestead and we are literally counting down the days until march 1st, thats when we start our seeds indoors. 7.5 more weeks.

[@LowEffortGardening]

I'm counting down the days to sprint myself! Thanks for watching and commenting. I hope to hear more about your garden come spring

[@char8a291]

Yea! Been Looking for an experienced gardener in north Tx! I grow in containers and a few new raised beds. Thanks for naming specific types of veggies that won’t bolt so fast! My biggest challenge is finding the right soil combination. Big box store bags are horrible soils for me. Suggestions? Thanks!

[@LowEffortGardening]

I'm happy you found the channel, I don't grow in containers but if I did I would use 4 parts peatmoss, 2 parts perlite, 1 part coconut coir, (worm castings, kelp meal, fish bone meal, azomite, greensand to factory recommendation)

[@Seon892002]

5:47 Where? Florida? Texas zone 8b here

[@LowEffortGardening]

Texas!! I was not supposed to say Florida

[@yaima0901]

Can these be planted directly outside or do I need to start them inside?

[@LowEffortGardening]

Inside or under cover is always best if you have the room and resources or if you are conserving seed. If you have a lot of seed and are ok with slower and lower germination rates, outside is absolutely fine.

[@janeesimone]

3:19 🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️😅

[@LowEffortGardening]

Haha 😆

[@horselover123962]

What would you recommend for ammending the soil? For the Cen Tex region. Thank you

[@LowEffortGardening]

In Cen Tex you probably have heavy clay. If that's the case, you'll want to break that up by adding expanded shale throughout , add 4 inches of compost on top and sow or plant directly into that.

[@Suzie-he9ni]

It will be 11 degrees here in 8b next week. Should I still plant what was shown here and cover the items with a tarp or wait.

[@LowEffortGardening]

If the soil is workable, you can still plant, as all the varieties I mentioned are cold-hardy and germinate well in cooler soils. However, if seeds are scarce, it’s better to wait.