Cool Season Vegetable Gardening - Extending the Growing Season

Vegetable gardens are rarely planted all at once. To get the most from the limited space of a home vegetable garden, there are several methods of extending your vegetable harvest throughout the vegetable growing season. Extending the vegetable harvest is easy enough to do, but it takes a little pre-planning as your getting your vegetable...

Succession planting is used in vegetable gardening as a way to extend your harvest by staggering or successively planting crops or planting varieties with staggered maturing dates. There are basically 4 methods of succession planting outlined here.

The first vine ripened tomato may still be a few months away, but there’s plenty to keep you busy in the vegetable garden. Take advantage of the cool, wet weather of spring to put in multiple crops of peas and lettuce. It’s also a great time to get your perennial vegetables, like asparagus and rhubarb, started.

Cool weather vegetable gardening offers many advantages, not the least of which is the colorful choice of crops that can be grown, like 'Bright Lights' chard, ‘Red Russian’ Brussels sprouts, ‘Osaka Purple’ mustard greens or any of the many other suggestions offered here by Cathy Wilkinson Barash for the National Garden...

Cool fall weather can mean a second chance for your vegetable garden. If you do a bit of planning, you can grow leafy greens, root vegetables and even crisp heads of cabbage and kale, well into winter. Many vegetables sweeten with a touch of frost. Here are some tips.

Many gardeners in cool climates thing fall is the end of the gardening season. Actually, many vegetables enjoy the cool, rainy season and will grow well in fall. However, you'll need to get them started a little earlier. Here's how to prepare your vegetable garden for a fall season.

Vegetable gardens don't have to shut down in the fall. The vegetables discussed here have no problem growing in cool weather. Keep you garden growing as long as you can.

The cool season is the best time for growing lettuce. It stays crisp and the chill sweetens its flavor. But don't give up on lettuce, just because the weather warms. These tips will keep you in lettuce for most of the summer.

Tips for starting plants early and keeping them growing well into the end of the gardening season.