Joshua Siskin offers five weekly tips for gardeners.
She writes, “With few exceptions, vegetables are best harvested in the cool morning hours so that they stay crisp and store longer. Harvested too late, they become limp and wilt quickly, having evaporated much of their moisture and absorbed the midday heat. This is especially important for leafy greens like lettuce, chard, and fresh herbs such as parsley and basil. It also applies to crisp fruiting vegetables like peas, and anything in the cabbage gamily like broccoli and radishes.
While benefiting from soil still warm from summer heat, days are cool. Conditions are perfect for germinating seeds of leaf and root vegetables, cole crops, and peas. Green manure crops such as clover also germinate reliably now. If you have a patch of clover and wish to increase it, you can achieve that goal by digging up pieces and planting them in bare ground. I have done this successfully by excavating six-inch by six-inch chunks of clover “sod” to a depth of three inches or so.
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