In zone eight we always plant garlic in the fall but I'm not sure about your zone. I usually harvest garlic mid summer when all but about seven of the leaves have turned brown. Pull them up and let them dry out in a shady spot for a week or so until all of the leaves dry. At that point you can use it or store it for the winter. It will last from four to ten months or so depending on variety. Onions from sets usually do better as green onions rather than bulb onions. The green onions can be harvested all winter if the ground isnt frozen. If the onions don't go to seed in the summer they will start to grow large bulbs and when the tops start to die down they are ready to pull. Good luck. Theresa.

I plant Fall Peas in late July / early August. Your dates will be close to that; the U KY vegetable planting guide gives a date of August 1st for Fall peas. U-KY publication: "Home Vegetable Gardening in Kentucky"

I would like to try to plant some potatoes in early fall for harvest in late fall. These are seed potatoes I just harvested. If I plant them around the 1st of Sept when temps drop usually below 90*F will they sprout. My first frost date is around 10/1 but I do have season extension capabilities. My problem is not knowing whether they will sprout. Do I need to maybe put them in the refrigerator for a while. Or am I just way off in trying this. I have Kennebec and Russet Norkotah potatoes. I am assuming because the weather will be colder that I will probably only have new potatoes before a hard freeze comes along.

Picture would help...do you have any branches below? If so, then tie one up a little for a new leader. If still some cambium intact at the brake, [only needs a little] then you're good to cut scion early spring when you cut the trunk. If no branches below the brake then it will push out new growth.