Class 2: Vegetable Short Course
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Year Round Vegetable Gardening
During class 2 you will learn the basics of year round vegetable gardening, including planting times and methods, season extension practices, and tips for success with individual crops.
Learn more about growing a wide range of vegetables – check out these vegetable crop fact sheets and online resources:
- Clemson Extension vegetable fact sheets
- NC State Extension vegetable fact sheets
- Recommended Varieties for the Piedmont
- Central NC Vegetable Planting Calendar
- Growing Vegetables Organically, from Georgia Extension
- NC State Extension Home Vegetable Gardening Handbook
- Additional vegetable gardening resources from NC State Extension
- Additional vegetable gardening resources from Clemson Extension
Extending the Growing Season
- Building cold frames, Missouri Extension
- Learn more about high tunnels
- Row cover fabrics can provide several degrees of protection. Learn more about their use
Watering Your Garden
- This fact sheet from Mississippi Extension provides a good overview of garden watering principles and practices
- Clemson Extension has an excellent series of fact sheets on drip irrigation systems
- Learn how you can harvest rainwater to water your garden.
Nutrients and Fertilizers
- Understanding the soil test report, in-depth explanation from NCDA&CS
- Learn more about nutrients, soil pH, and fertilizers from the Extension Gardener Handbook Soils and Plant Nutrients chapter
- Fertilizing with Organic Nutrients, factsheet from NCDA&CS
- Changing the pH of your soil from Clemson Extension. Covers use of lime to raise pH and sulfur to lower pH
Yields, harvest tips and more:
- Expected Vegetable Yields, Louisiana Extension
- Harvest Guide, Clemson Extension
- Harvest and Storage Guidelines, Missouri Extension
Use Extension Search to find research based information from Cooperative Extension systems across the U.S.