There’s nothing quite like a vine-ripened tomato or a crisp salad made from fresh garden lettuce and herbs. Whether you grow veggies in the ground or a raised planting bed, success begins with the soil and includes careful attention to watering, fertilization and pest control.
Tending to backyard vegetable gardens can fill many hours of enjoyable downtime in the great outdoors. What’s more, the bounty produced by such gardens provides healthy, fresh foods to gardeners and their loved ones.
Although spring and summer are widely seen as the peak of gardening season, the mild temperatures of autumn can be a prime time for planting vegetables as well. Certain late-season treats like carrots, kale, spinach, and turnips can thrive in fall gardens. Many different foods are quick crops that can go from seed to table in about six weeks. When sown in early fall, these vegetables will be ready to put on the table for mid-October feasts. Beets, green onions, broccoli, and cabbages can be planted in late summer for fall harvest. Gardeners who live in hardiness zones eight through 10 (the Southern portion of the U.S.) can plant fall vegetables as late as December. Many of these plants can tolerate light frost, which may even help sweeten the vegetables.
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