Start your fall veggie garden.
August 26th, 2009
Even though it’s hot outdoors, August is when you start your fall vegetable garden.
Garden centers now offer everything you need to grow cabbage, broccoli, onions, lettuce, greens like collards and more.
Before putting transplants in your garden, work in some aged compost to enrich the soil and slowly feed the plants as they grow.
Most fall vegetables are green and leafy, meaning they thrive on ample nitrogen. When you put in the transplants, work a half cup of 10-10-10 fertilizer around each. When you finish, water thorougly.
Every two weeks, apply a light topdressing of 10-10-10 fertilizer along the sides of plants and water in throughly.
Remember, you only need a small space, like 10-by-10 feet to have a bountiful vegetable garden year-round.
The key is once one crop is finished, put in another crop to keep the harvests going!
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