Vegetable Care

Learn about fall vegetable gardening advantages, opportunities, and challenges, including which crops do best for fall planting and overwintering as well as how to calculate the planting date.

Learn how to use row cover, insect mesh netting, and shade cloth to exclude insect pests and protect vegetable plants from cold or hot temperatures and intense sunlight.

Protect and improve the soil in a vegetable garden by planting cover crops. Learn which cover crops to sow at particular times of year, and how to manage them when you're ready to plant vegetables.

Learn how to select and apply fertilizer to vegetable gardens.

Learn how to grow microgreens and baby greens as a healthy, low-cost, easy homegrown vegetable crop you can produce indoors.

Proper care of the plants growing in your Salad Table™ or Salad Box™ will provide a steady supply of leafy greens.

Use these handouts as an introductory guide to learn the basics of setting up and maintaining a vegetable garden in the ground, in raised beds, and in containers.

Drip irrigation for the home vegetable garden.

Learn the basics of fertilizing, watering, and weeding a vegetable garden to keep your plants healthy and productive.