How to Grow Fall Vegetables
- 1). Purchase a soil tester from a hardware store or garden center.
- 2). Collect a soil sample from your vegetable garden, sprinkle it over newspaper in a dry area of your home and wait for it to dry completely.
- 3). Follow all instructions on your soil tester to determine the pH, or acidity level, of your garden soil. The pH must be more than six in order to properly grow fall vegetables.
- 4). Add one pound of lime for each 100 square feet of your garden, multiplied by each half a point that your soil is too low on the acidity level. For instance, if the pH of your soil is five and you have a 100-square-foot garden, you would add two pounds of lime.
- 5). Till the soil thoroughly to refresh it and get air circulating within. Remove any weeds and mix in an inch of compost to freshen the soil drainage. If you have had drainage issues in the past, you can use up to two inches of compost.
- 6). Plant the vegetables per instructions on seed packets or from your local garden center or nursery. Depth of planting and spacing will vary by vegetable.
- 7). Water the plants with an inch of water per week. Do not water them if you have at least one inch of precipitation during the week, as overwatering can easily damage roots.
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