Fall Vegetables
With cooler weather on the way, now is a good time to make room in your garden for fall vegetables. If some of your summer vegetable crop is finished, perhaps it's time to send them off to the compost pile and plant a few of the various cole crops and lettuces. Cabbages, Broccoli, Collards, Kale, Turnips, Radishes and a variety of lettuce types will keep you supplied in fresh vegetables long after the summer crop is finished. Seeds can be started indoors now, then transplanted outside. Many garden centers have already started these seeds for you and you can purchase seedlings two or three weeks in growth and ready to transplant. Be sure to offer some protection from hungry critters with a fence or special cloth cover that allows light and water through, or try planting in containers to foil their little appetites.
Cool weather crops tend to do better in the fall than in the spring, due to fewer insect pests and the temperatures moving toward cooler rather than toward warmer. If frost is a possibility overnight, you can cover the plants and still have good crops for quite a few weeks more. No extra fertilizer is necessary, however a bit of compost around the plants will give them nutrients that may be depleted from the summer crop. Of course, if no rain is occurring, water when necessary.
These plants require little attention and offer lots of great eating for many more weeks before it will be time to shut the garden down for the winter.
By: Sandy Weinkam
Gardening Expert at A.J. Greenhouses
Cool weather crops tend to do better in the fall than in the spring, due to fewer insect pests and the temperatures moving toward cooler rather than toward warmer. If frost is a possibility overnight, you can cover the plants and still have good crops for quite a few weeks more. No extra fertilizer is necessary, however a bit of compost around the plants will give them nutrients that may be depleted from the summer crop. Of course, if no rain is occurring, water when necessary.
These plants require little attention and offer lots of great eating for many more weeks before it will be time to shut the garden down for the winter.
By: Sandy Weinkam
Gardening Expert at A.J. Greenhouses
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