Mary Choate owns and operates Coastalfields, a small farm that uses no herbicide, pesticide, fertilizer or antibiotics to raise fruits, vegetables, grains, hay, flowers, mushrooms, bees, chickens and geese, and has written numerous books on those and other subjects. Contact her at http://www.coastalfields.com/.

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Weekly garden planner ... it's not too late to plant!

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August 18, 8:58 AM

by Mary Choate, Denver Gardening Examiner

Radishes ... still an option

The heat wave finally broke, and the cool weather setting in can mean only one thing: fall is on it’s way! Time to get ready...

It’s not too late to plant a little more for this year’s harvest: short season crops such as radish, greens (lettuce, beet greens, mustards, kale, bean sprouts, etc) and turnips should have enough time to grow before the frost arrives. These crops are usually smaller in size, so even if you don’t think you have room in your garden you can probably squeeze in some seeds underneath something (especially if that something, like zucchini, is almost done).

It’s also time to plan ahead for overwintering crops: order your shallots, garlic, onion seeds, and other fall-planted crop seeds and starts now so that they’ll arrive in the mail in time to plant them next month.

It’s the peak of summer harvesting! If your garden is producing more than you can eat, try dehydrating it, canning it, or freezing it. Everything can be preserved with some ingenuity. This winter, when your garden lies bare, your taste buds will thank you!

With all the rain we’ve been having, you may need to make sure your garden doesn’t flood. A bit (or a lot) of soaking water doesn’t hurt most crops, but deep pools of water can kill or damage them. If you have pools of water in your garden that aren’t running off within a few hours of the rain stopping, or if they are more than an inch or two deep during the rain, you may need to dig channels for it to drain out of.

For more info: http://www.coastalfields.com/

Topics: lettuce , raddish , greens , zucchini , overwintering , garlic

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