Time to replant!

If the summer heat and drought killed off as much of your garden as it did mine, well...it just makes it easier to replant.

Kale and spinach, turnips, peas and green beans -these last 2  added to every bed to help with nitrogen whether you get a crop or not- you can even try for a second crop or potatoes ( you may need a lightweight freeze cover towards the end of growing...try Amazon for 2 of them for about $10.) Remember your compost and organic fertilizer, lime and minerals-whatever you are adding...I put out a few butternut squash; cucumbers might be possible too. some people like beets, arugula and lettuce...be creative.

anything that dies this fall- is just ground cover to be turned in next spring!

Later we will start lettuce and greens to sit  in the little green house. it can sometimes keep growing quite well, even into early winter!herbs need to come in, I think. I lose them even with cover.but while redoing herb pots for your kitchen, don;t forget to throw that used up potting soil, compost, etc right into your compost pile. by next spring the whole mix is healthy. I often start seeds in it and do my early pots with it.

my burned up tomatoes are setting new fruit, the peppers are attempting same ( goats ate em. every year-one great escape!)

the dug down trench for potatoes( 10-16 inches) ( then filled in partially with compost and potatoes started, leaving quite a mound of soil to add on top) worked beautifully. lots of lovely yellow potatoes-often 3 or 4 big ones and 10 or more small ones per hill.and the whole bed is so soft I think garlic. or whatever, will be in 7th heaven planted there.