GREEN ACRES is the place for me….
Only a few more days until my sweet red (and
some yellow) ripe tomatoes are off the vine. If
you missed the summer planting window for this
season, no sweat. There’s plenty of time to
ready the garden for fall. You read correctly, I’m
talking fall. Now is the time to plan and till the
soil to get ready for planting mid-summer; about
What you can plant now: Create a green kitchen garden.
mid-late August depending what zone you live.
Herbs are great to start any time especially in urban settings.
My Favorites: Arugula, Basil, Cuban Basil (a robust perennial),
Greek Oregano, Pineapple Sage ( 8’ perennial), English
TIP: Gardeners just
Thyme and Tuscan Rosemary
have to play it by
ear. All that hard
“We garden the old fashioned way by recycling farm or
yard waste into compost and improving the soil instead
work can be gone
of stripping the nutrients year after year. Plants grow
over night. Keep a healthier and stronger in good soil. Mulching, cover
close eye out for
cropping and other organic techniques allow us to leave
improved soil year after year for our grandchildren as
signs pests and
well as have a better garden with delicious vegetables.”
disease. Cindy Martin, The Tasteful Garden
USe alternative
To order healthy plants grown using organic
insect “eliminators“
techniques from Cindy and George (another good
like Spectrum; looking George) … guaranteed to arrive healthy and
Garden Safe. Spray
ready to plant.
tastefulgarden.com
may be applies up to
day of harvest.
acehardware.com
Beet Orange Tower
Not much to this recipe,
yet it looks very fancy.
Tastes even better. This is
a refreshing combination
of orange and beets
drizzled with olive oil and
good balsamic vinegar.
Favorites For Fall Planting: Thinking Ahead. Mix french
yellow & green beans, mixed color beets, florence fennel,
endive and rainbow swiss chard.
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