This local organic farmer shares 6 tips for fall gardening. Tip #1: Start now.

By Maggie Heyn Richardson July 18, 2024

Ask a serious local gardener about their favorite growing season, and they’re likely to say fall. Sure, summer yields showy, long-awaited crops like juicy tomatoes, plump blueberries and sweet corn, but here in the almost-tropics, summer growing also brings a bonanza of weeds, heat and pests. Fall gardens are less vulnerable to those impediments while turning out a lengthy, sustained season of popular produce. Oh, and in the early fall,…