Removing Summer Plants, Preparing Beds for Fall

Summer is still in full swing but we need to prepare for the Fall garden. We harvested potatoes and amended the bed for root vegetables like beats, carrots, rutabagas, turnips, and radishes. We transformed most of our tomatoes into salsa, and pasta sauce. Now the tomato beds can be used for broccoli, cauliflower, kale, bok choy, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and cabbages. We filled our freezers with green beans, and the beds are being switched to peas. The corn produced a couple of bushels for the winter and we may still have enough time for some field peas before the frost. Gardening does not end with the summer harvest.