Vegetable Garden | Don’t Give Up On Your Garden Just Yet
Right now your vegetable garden is probably looking bedraggled and bug eaten. The squash and bean bugs have hatched multiple times and have taken over the garden. It’s time to hang it up and move on to other things and let nature take it’s course.
If that is the way you feel, you are what I call a ‘fair weather’ gardener. But we still have at least 12 weeks of frost free growing time so don’t hang up those gardening gloves just yet.Rip out the nearly dead and completely dead vegetable plants and get ready for some fresh beginnings.
With the recent rains we’ve had, now is the time to go to the nursery and pick up some fresh transplants, or to search for some half price seed packets that the stores are dying to get rid of.
I’ve just finished planting some leftover seeds for summer squash, spinach, lettuce, arugula, cukes, cilantro, beets, sunflowers and radish. When I order my seeds in the fall, I make sure I have extras in hand when the first rush of planting is over in the spring. At this time of the year, once in the ground, the seeds jump out of the earth and shoot up because of all the warm nights. Not like in the spring, when nights were
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