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.

Review slides from class 2

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.

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