Tuesday

Time for beginning for the next season.

Here in Zone 7 it's mid summer and hot, crops are coming in and some are already at their peak. As your crops finish with their productions, it's time to begin clearing them from the garden, composting them, and planting late summer and fall crops since we have almost 3 full months of weather suitable for growing another full crop. Depending on where you live, you may have more or less time, but anywhere in the U.S. you should be able to grow cool season crops, lettuce and other salad greens, peas, cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, turnips, rutabagas, parsnips, and some short term crops such as squash, zucchini and perhaps cucumbers. In the lower 48 you may have time (zone 6 or higher) for a new planting of tomatoes and peppers, especially if you've started peppers and rooted tomato cuttings or have access to started transplants, especially if you are able to provide some frost protection when the nights start to become cold but there is still a lot of warm weather and sunny days before the first freeze.
If you've not started composting, now is the time to locate and begin a new compost bin since grass clippings, garden waste and leaves that will fall in a few weeks will give you a lot of material to provide organic matter when you begin your garden in the spring.

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