Vegetable Gardens
There’s still time to make plantings of bush and lima beans, Southern peas, okra, summer and winter squash and sweet corn. Also now’s the time to make in-between plantings of eggplant, pepper and tomato plants. During June, jump start seedlings of tomatoes, brussels sprouts and collards for an autumn crop. Mulch tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and other long-season crops. This helps keep down weeds and holds in moisture during the hot summer days ahead. Several materials are useful as mulch: old newspapers, shredded paper, fertilizer bags, old sawdust, leaves and pine straw. Mulching is well worth the trouble.