Roxie, I planted beets and leeks from seed this weekend. I also have tomato plants to replace the worn out summer crop. I will probably wait a bit, but will be planting, radishes, Swiss Chard, spinach and arugua. Good luck with your fall harvest. I love this time in the Garden after that nasty heat breaks

Roxie, You will find that planting dates vary about a month across the state, depending on how far north versus south people live and garden. Those who live further north need to plant earlier because their first freeze comes earlier, and those of us who are further south plant later because the cold weather arrives later down here.

I have been waiting for rain too, down here in southcentral OK and now that it has fallen, I'll probably plant something for fall---maybe next week. We had 3.4" overnight and then .25" this afternoon, so my soil is going to be too wet to work for a while. We needed it though, because without rain, a fall garden wasn't going to have a chance. Most of the warm-season crops from my summer garden still are going strong (okra, winter squash, southern peas, some sorta-tired but still producing cucumbers, peppers, herbs, melons, summer squash, peppers and a few tomato plants I haven't pulled out yet), so anything else I plant mostly will be cool-season crops and I'm not in a big hurry with them because we've still been awfully hot. I do have fall tomatoes planted.

I probably will sow seeds of carrots in about a week, and pickling cucumbers as well because the ones we have are getting old and tired and are slowing down and I want to make more pickles. Other than that, my plan is mostly for cool-season plants---broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and for greens for salads---lettuce, Swiss chard, kale, and then maybe some cabbage collards and radishes.

Here's the Fall Gardening planning guide from OSU. You'll see that for almost every vegetable listed, there is a range of dates. The way these dates work in the fall is that folks in NW OK try to plant close to the earliest date, folks in SE OK try to plant close to the latest date, and folks in between those two extremes choose dates somewhere in between.

OSU Factsheet: Fall Gardening

Some of us routinely plant later than we should simply because it can be so hard to get cool-season plants to sprout, grow and stay happy in horrid August heat and drought. Since this August is starting out cooler and wetter, it may be a really good year to try to plant on time. (I probably won't succeed at staying on time......). Planting late doesn't bother me because I have frost blanket weight row cover I can use to cover plants if really cold weather threatens early. Often, we will have just one or two early cold nights and then we get another month or two of good weather. For much of OK, the first autumn freeze doesn't arrive until November, so there's lots and lots of good growing season left.

Hope this info helps. Ask more questions if needed. You'll get lots of good help here.

Dawn