• Order seed for your fall garden.
• To grow your own transplants, start seed of broccoli, kale, collard, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and cauliflower in containers of potting soil this month.
• Sow parsley seed direct in the garden or in containers. Soak seed in warm water for 6 to 8 hours before sowing.
• Sow lettuce, spinach, arugula, and other salad greens in the garden or grow in containers.
• Direct seed carrots, beets, rutabaga, and kohlrabi.
• Pull up a few hills of peanuts to determine  if they are ready to harvest.
• Buckwheat is a great, fast maturing cover crop that can be seeded in bare areas anytime between April and September. Allow to grow for 30-45 days and then till in to improve your soil.

• Spray peach tree trunks with permethrin to prevent peach tree borers from killing trees.
• Harvest apples when a twist of the wrist will release them from the tree. Many red apple varieties fail to develop good color in our climate.

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