You may be thinking that the gardening season is over. You have had a great gardening year and an abundance of fresh produce. So you may think that it is the end of gardening til next year. Hold up right there !!!!
While you have an abundance right now it will soon start to dwindle. It is time to extend the vegetable growing season by planing a fall garden. A fall garden will help you add more veggies to your supply and offer more growing season. The fall garden will require leess time and labor as the soil was worked previously in the spring. Kale, swiss chard, broccoli and cauliflower all are at higher quality in a fall garden.
First thing first you need to remove all previous crop residues before seeding fall veggies. So start with tilling and fertilizing. Then you are ready to plant the seeds. Keeping soil moist is needed til seed germinates. It is beest to get crops such as lettuce, kohlrabi, leaf lettuce, mustard, turnip, and winter radish in garden starting in mid to late August.
No interest in fall gardening then work on preparing your garden for next year. Debris clean up, weeds, and anything that does not belong in garden needs removing. If interested in covering your garden during fall plant rye, wheat or ryegrass. These plants will help smother out weeds and increase organic matter content of soil
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