Originally published by SowTrue Seeds
- Start seeds indoors for heading cole crops for your fall garden now. Direct sow radishes, carrots, beets, turnips, and kale in late August through September.
- Sow peas in mid to late August for a fall crop.
- Finish starting seeds inside for fall crops like Brussels sprouts, and other heading Brassicas.
- Warmer parts of this zone can plant a fall crop of potatoes. Try to get them in by the second week of September.
- Continue your bug removal and pest damage inspections! Remove and treat as needed.
- After the last raspberry harvest for the year, prepare for next year while also avoiding diseases by pruning out old flowering canes. Leave only three to four young canes per foot of row. Wait until spring to prune back shoot tips.
- Avoid pruning trees and shrubs since doing so this late in the season can stimulate new growth that will not harden off in time for the cold winter weather ahead. Delay pruning until the end of the dormant season early next spring.
- Seeds can again be sown for a late crop of leaf lettuce, mustard greens, Swiss chard, and spinach.
- Continue deadheading flowers which will allow plants to use energy reserves for a final flower display.
- Harvest vegetables such as beans, peas, squash, cucumbers, and okra regularly to prolong production and enjoy peak freshness.
- Remove old plants which have stopped producing to eliminate a shelter for insects and disease organisms.
- Every weed that produces seed means more trouble next year. Control weeds before they go to seed.
- Harvest cantaloupe when the stem separates from the fruit with gentle prodding.
- Sow a fall cover crop, if using.
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