Check your local freeze date to choose vegetables for October planting. Fast-maturing cool-season crops are ideal for late fall harvests. Hardy plants like garlic and kale go dormant in winter and ...

Close up of a wild brown rat in Autumn - Callingcurlew23/Getty Images Can't seem to get rid of those pesky rodents, no matter how many traps you set? Well, your fall vegetable garden might be the ...

Ensure crops have enough time to grow by checking the "days to harvest" information on seed packets. Plant cold weather leaves in September, alliums in October, and winter hardy veggies in November.

However, contained within these bookends of the vegetable garden season are various opportunities for multiple or succession plantings. Mid-July is what we consider the beginning of the fall growing ...

This southern favorite is not afraid of the summer heat. Okra is a hardy, drought-tolerant vegetable that you can plant a few months before the first frost for an abundant autumn harvest. Work the ...

Fall is spinach's season. Spring-planted spinach bolts. Fall spinach thrives. Swiss chard remains a real trooper and just plain pretty. Bok choy and Chinese cabbage grow fast and taste best in cool ...

There’s lots of planting to be done in our vegetable gardens this month. The late summer/fall vegetable garden includes plantings of both warm-season vegetables (many of the same ones we planted in ...

For most Central and South Texas gardeners, the fall garden is the best time to have a vegetable garden. Now is the time to get started. Cat’s claw vine is very difficult to control and spreads by ...