While Everyone Else Is Watching Football MANY PEOPLE THINK OF SUMMER AS THE TIME TO PLANT A VEGGIE GARDEN, BUT OUR VALLEY CLIMATE IS IDEAL FOR CULTIVATING PRODUCE IN FALL AND WINTER. One of the most important things to do for a cool-season garden is to choose the right spot. Whether you are using beds or
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to get as much sun as possible,” Whitney says. If you have a summer garden, Whitney suggests leaving
containers, Valley-based urban gardener Whitney Wade sug-
plants in until they stop producing and flowering. Continue
gests choosing an area that, on a summer day, has six to eight
watering two times a week for four or five minutes, be-
hours of full sun. “And realize that, as we head into fall, the
cause water keeps the soil alive with beneficial bacteria and
area will have less light as the sun and earth shift. The idea is
organisms.