Get a Jump on a Cool-Season Vegetable Garden

The vegetable garden is in full glory during summer, filled with ripe tomatoes, rapidly growing squashes, hot and mild peppers, melons, cucumbers, corn and a host of other summer vegetables that can threaten to take over your yard and your kitchen. Most fruit trees are in full production, and berries are at their peak. Is it any wonder that by fall, most people are looking forward to relaxing indoors with a seed catalog and planning for next year rather than actively nurturing their own edible landscape?

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