Check your local freeze date to choose vegetables for October planting. Fast-maturing cool-season crops are ideal for late fall harvests. Hardy plants like garlic and kale go dormant in winter and ...

Recommended varieties: Early-season tomatoes such as ‘Bush Beefsteak’, ‘Celebrity’, and ‘Early Girl’ are ready for harvest 70 ...

Fall is a prime time for growing root vegetables and leafy greens like spinach and kale. These crops truly shine in delicious autumnal dishes, from hearty stews to roasts. Late-season vegetables tend ...

Mulching is one of those garden chores that pays off all season. A thick layer of mulch helps steady the soil temperature and prevents moisture from escaping. Straw, shredded leaves, or wood chips are ...

However, contained within these bookends of the vegetable garden season are various opportunities for multiple or succession plantings. Mid-July is what we consider the beginning of the fall growing ...

Market season begins to wind down for most farms as fall rolls around. In northern states, the chill of fall comes on quickly, and it becomes harder and harder to grow profitable yields. Without ...

While winter does bring rest, it’s not winter yet! No matter where you farm, you can still grow yields of fall crops. Sow October seeds, and in a couple of months, you’ll be selling beautiful produce ...

There’s lots of planting to be done in our vegetable gardens this month. The late summer/fall vegetable garden includes plantings of both warm-season vegetables (many of the same ones we planted in ...

Late winter is the moment to tuck cold hardy vegetables into the soil so they are ready to surge once the light returns and ...