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After you've harvested some great summer crops but before you winterize your garden, why not squeeze out a fall crop? When it comes to popular root vegetables, there are few more beloved than the ...

Many fall vegetables need to be planted in the spring when the weather is favorable and rainfall is abundant. But some fall vegetables can—and should—be planted as late as the end of summer. For a ...

With the first frost quickly approaching in many regions, some gardeners think that fall signals the end of the gardening season. You may be happy to know that it's far from true. What you can plant ...

Many people think of spring as the best time to plant vegetables, but if you ask rooftop gardener James Mastaler, fall is actually the perfect time to start! “Fall is a surprisingly wonderful time to ...

What’s actively growing in your vegetable garden in the middle of October? You may have some late winter squash yet to be harvested, but warm-season stalwarts such as cucumber and summer squash are ...

Fall offers some of the best vegetable gardening. In fact, autumn's cool weather and Jack Frost's nippy touches can enhance the flavor of healthy greens like collards. Spinach often survives winter, ...

There’s lots of planting to be done in our vegetable gardens this month. The late summer/fall vegetable garden includes plantings of both warm-season vegetables (many of the same ones we planted in ...

Enjoy a harvest earlier in the season by getting these veggies started indoors at the right time.

Most readers know that I am an ornamental gardener. I have not vegetable gardened for many years and never have in Amarillo. Texas Gardener magazine publishes spring and fall planting guides. The fall ...

If gardeners can irrigate fall vegetable crops, now is the time to prepare for them. Have you arranged for fresh seeds and seedlings? Gardeners also should know the condition of the soil — that is, ...