The end of summer doesn’t have to mean the end of the growing season. Now is the time to plant a fall vegetable garden and fill your pantry with cool-season crops well into late autumn. Some of the best quality vegetables are produced during fall’s warm days and cool nights. These environmental conditions add sugar to late-season sweet corn and cole crops, such as cauliflower and cabbage, and crispness to carrots.

Fall vegetables are harvested after early September. They consist of two types: the last succession plantings of warmseason crops, such as corn and bush beans and coolseason crops that grow well during the cool fall days and withstand frost.

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