Most gardeners plant their gardens in the spring or early summer.
When hot weather has ended the harvest of tender lettuce, scallions, and sweet green peas, they forget about these delights until the following spring. If you are one of those gardeners, consider the possibilities of fall gardening. While the first frost may terminate your fall lettuce, a variety of vegetables will continue to grow after the first frost. Beets, broccoli, cabbage, collards, kale, carrots, cauliflower, spinach, turnips, mustard, and Swiss chard can all be planted in August or September and harvested well into the fall. Even some of the frost-tender vegetables like beans and tomatoes can be started late in the summer and harvested until the season ends.