Mid- to late-summer is an ideal time to plant a second-season vegetable garden that will come to harvest in fall. Hardy, cool-weather crops are well suited for the second-season garden. Cool-weather crops like to get their start in warm soil and come to maturity when days and nights are cool. Cool weather vegetables include leafy…
Succession Planting
Succession Planting Summer into Autumn
Succession plantings for autumn harvest are made in early- and mid-summer. Succession planting is the practice of planting a new crop in the same spot where another crop has just been harvested. Crops for succession planting in early- and mid-summer are cool-season crops—crops that mature and yield best when temperatures average in the 60s and…
Succession Vegetable Crops for Spring
Succession cropping is the planting of two or more crops in the same space at different times: a second crop succeeds a first as soon as possible after harvest and in some regions a third crop can succeed the second after harvest. Each crop in succession planting must come to harvest during its optimal harvest…
Succession Planting and Winter Storage
Succession planting in the home vegetable garden will supply the table not only through the summer months, but also for late fall and winter. Plan and plant in late spring and early summer succession crops for harvest from fall through early spring. Succession planting is the planting of one crop immediately after the harvest of…
Succession Cropping
Succession cropping will help you get the most out of your vegetable garden. Here are two succession cropping strategies: • Plant a portion of a specific crop a little bit at a time; for example, plant a row of beans today and a second row three weeks from now. This will allow for a staggered…
Planning Succession Crops
Succession planting will allow you to plant several times throughout the growing season for a continuous supply of fresh vegetables. To plan succession crops you must know two things: • The number of weeks of growing season in your garden. The length of the growing season is the number weeks between the last frost in…
Succession Planting
Succession planting means growing different crops in the same space one right after the other in the same season, or planting the same crop in different parts of the garden in succession at different times. For example: • A row of carrots is planted in early spring: after the carrots are harvested in early summer,…
