Good for you! It is so exciting to learn how to sow seeds and gives you lots more choices in varieties to grow. I'm not familiar with your zone, but here, we plant collards, kale, and broccoli in late July to set in the ground in mid to late August. You might want to check on your area. Timing is everything when it comes to fall gardens. (Which is frustrating because it's much more difficult to find good info for fall gardens than for spring plantings.)

Thanks Donna. According to the local independent garden center, I am about right on the broccoli, and too early to set out Spinach yet. The photo below of my planting guide is lousy, but I use it , then plant out when the seeds decide to sprout. I blew the carrots date for sure, but will plant out anyway. The schedule shows December is OK too for carrots.

Beautiful, and you're way ahead of me. It's been so busy here I just started a small 9-pack of broccoli and a split 9-pack of kale and chard. I think that might be it for my winter garden this year, other than lettuce in a bit.

One thing that might save you some space under your lights: I usually start lettuce in one of those little aluminum loaf pans - the small ones, not like meatloaf pans. Just fill it with potting soil/seed starting mix (whatever you usually use) and then scrape your lettuce seeds into the top like you would direct seeding. Water, put some plastic wrap over the top until they germinate - don't worry about poking holes in the tin, just be careful not to keep it soggy when watering. I then transplant outside when they're about 2-3 inches high (after hardening off of course) - they tolerate having their roots teased apart very well. Anyway, I can literally fill a 4'x12' raised bed with way too crowded wall to wall lettuce out of one little loaf tin.

*edit* I call mine a winter garden to attempt to avoid confusing people who have strange things like frost and snow during the winter months ;) In really temperate zones, we grow summer gardens in spring/summer/fall, and things people would normally plant in spring and fall during the winter.

this looks very good. Greens are the foundation of health. do not forget to plant a cover crop where you don't grow anything.

nice picture and planting chart. but the word carrot has only one "T"