Vegetable Garden | Vegetable Growing Season Isn’t Over
If your summer vegetable garden wasn’t as productive as you hoped it would be, you still have a chance to put some backyard produce on the kitchen table.
According to University of Nevada Cooperative Extension horticulture expert JoAnne Skelly, late summer days with their cooler temperatures provide excellent growing conditions for many vegetables, including lettuces, chard, kale, collards and spinach.
“A number of vegetable gardeners are unaware of the opportunities for growing late-season crops,” said Skelly, the Cooperative Extension Educator for Carson City and Storey County. “They get all excited about gardening in the spring, do all the work and then simply wait for their tomatoes and other warm season crops to ripen, never realizing they could extend their season.”
Skelly said other vegetables worth planting in August include Chinese cabbage, peas, carrots, beets, some herbs and radishes. Root veggies grown in the fall often taste sweeter because of the warm soils and cooler air temperatures, Skelly said.
“Beets are a vegetable for all seasons,” Skelly said. “You can eat their leaves and roots. They are hardy to 15 degrees if covered with a layer of mulch to protect the roots.
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