The zucchini is starting to produce and summer salads are a staple of evening dinners. It's tempting at this time of the year to put your feet up, relax and enjoy the bounty of your hard work. Yet by November, I'm often left wishing I had put in a little more effort in during the summer so that I could harvest fresh food through the wintertime.
Summer is the ideal time to start a winter garden.
A couple of weeks seeding and transplanting will result in a kitchen garden that will produce well into the springtime. The first step is deciding what to grow. The next step is to find room in the garden. Although my squash plants are filling in every inch of their bed, I can usually find space where my spring veggies used to reside. Often enough, there's now room since the lettuce and early spring greens are all harvested.