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220-Fall Succession Planning and Planting Tips, with Meg Cowden

| Podcast, Prepare

Our fall gardens really can get started as early as spring when we sow seeds that take many months to mature (hello Brussels sprouts), but July and August present even more opportunities to plant crops that will be ready to harvest come September, October and even later. To share her best tips for succession planning […]

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How to Protect Cool-Season Crops in Hot Weather

| Prepare, Video

Planting cool-season crops poses a challenge when the weather is still hot, but there are tools you can employ to protect plants that don’t tolerate the heat.      Once plants are in the ground, apply a layer of about two inches of mulch over the bare soil around the plants, then water it […]

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Easy Edibles for Every Fall Vegetable Garden

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To help you get started on a fall vegetable garden, I am sharing my 10 favorite easy-to-grow cool-season crops. Beyond the summer crops that we so often associate with an edible garden — tomatoes, squash, corn, green beans — there’s a whole other world out there that doesn’t get started until things cool down. Plant […]

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