From Roanoke.com….
During the dog days of summer, gardeners who have planted spring crops often begin pulling up the old and putting in the new. These incoming vegetables, planted in late summer, will be ready for harvest anywhere between six and eight weeks after they’re planted, even into November and December depending on their frost resistance.
Starting a new garden in the fall requires a flurry of activity: The sod must be killed, the plot then tilled up, the soil tested and amended — then the planting can begin. Bruce Feldberg, who started Riverside Nursery in Salem in 1989, suggests planting lettuces, kale, beets, turnips, spinach and mustard greens for fall or cool-weather gardens. He said his nursery has plants available at the proper planting times. Barbara Leach with Virginia Cooperative Extension said kale and Swiss chard can carry through the winter.
