Chumasande MatiwaneAutumn is a good month to become complacent in the garden, with plentiful daily harvests, and cooler autumn air allowing you to finally harvest a few veggies from your garden finally. If you time all your plantings right during the warmer seasons, you’ll get a nice, steady autumn harvest for several weeks.
Most leafy greens take very little time to mature and can be eaten at most any stage of their development. They can be harvested in any season and can still be worthwhile. Most greens are cool-season veggies, meaning autumn is the time to harvest them.
Spinach
One of the most common greens in most gardens. They can be planted late in the summer for an early to mid-autumn harvest. Depending on the severity of autumn, they can also be harvested later in the season. Imagine picking fresh leafy spinach until the first hard frost.
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Brassicas
Autumn is the ideal time for brassica vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. These cold-hardy crops will benefit from being harvested this season as they prefer the cooler temperatures of autumn, resulting in sweeter and more tender harvests.
Carrots
Carrots are root plants perfect for autumn harvests. The cool season of autumn is what these plants prefer, but they can also be harvested in early winter. On top of being cool-season harvests, some carrot varieties are also best sown in autumn, expecting harvest in winter, but that all depends on the winter garden tasks you provide for them.
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Squash or pumpkin
Squash and pumpkins are perhaps the image most people have in their minds when thinking of autumn vegetable harvesting. Autumn is the prime time for harvesting any squash or pumpkins you have grown.
Whether you grow them vertically, in containers, or in your vegetable patch, you should look forward to harvesting them.
Kale
Similar to spinach or lettuce, kale is a fast-growing vegetable that needs to be planted in late summer and harvested by autumn. Super-nutritious and is a cut-and-come-again crop. It doesn’t really matter what variety you grow. Harvest a few leaves from each kale plant, and don’t take any from the top rosette, and you can get many pickings from your kale plants throughout autumn and winter.
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