The end of August and the beginning of September are the end of the active harvest. The beds are empty, only pumpkins, late cabbage and individual bushes of tomatoes and peppers remain. But, believe the site Our site, in September you can still have time to pamper yourself with tasty, healthy and fresh products from your garden.
The first thing we advise you to definitely grow in September is radish. This is an early ripening vegetable that turns out to be less bitter in the fall than in the summer heat, and less watery. Radish can be harvested within 20 days after planting, everything will be in time!
Do not forget to plant new beds with parsley, dill, basil, coriander, green onions in early autumn. And freeze all those fragrant condiments for the winter. It’s easy – wash, dry, cut as you need, place in containers or simply wrap portions in foil. And in the freezer – in winter you will not look for herbs for hot dishes. And you will definitely know that your seasonings are natural and healthy.
Salads perfectly tolerate a drop in temperatures up to +5 ° C and even small frosts. In September, it’s time to pamper yourself with fresh watercress leaves and lettuce. At temperatures up to +17 ° C, the taste of their leaves will be special, without a pronounced summer bitterness. By the way, the fast growing watercress is often grown as a microgreen. How to do this, the portal wrote in detail.
Another greenery that does not like the heat is spinach. So in September he will be comfortable in the beds, and it will be possible to harvest green leaves with a delicate taste within 30 days after planting.
Arugula is also capable of tolerating frosts down to -5 ° C and grows well when it is not more than +15 ° C outside. After 25 days, you can already cut off the healthy mustard-nutty leaves that are so good in fresh salads.
Chinese cabbage. Not Beijing! It is Chinese, its second name is pak-choi. She does not have a head of cabbage, only a rosette of green leaves on fleshy white roots. Pak Choi grows quickly – in 40 days you will harvest. Feels good at temperatures not higher than +18 ° С, +25 ° С for Chinese cabbage it is already hot.
Residents of the southern regions of our country, where there are no frosts in September, will have time to grow green peas. He ripens within 30 days after planting, tolerates a decrease in temperatures to +2 ° C. Even if the weather does not allow the green peas to give you the pod harvest, plant this plant in early fall anyway! Peas are an excellent green manure that improves the structure of the soil in your beds.
Mustard salad, it is Russian, gray, leaf. Another excellent green manure and just healthy greens, the harvest of which you can harvest in two weeks.
Don’t relax after harvesting staple vegetables! In September, as our autumn gardener calendar says, you still have a lot of work to do. And there is every chance of getting an additional harvest of greens for the winter..
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