Your Summer Gardening Checklist: How to Keep the Bounty Coming all Season - Sunset Magazine
Plant To extend the harvest, plant seedlings and seeds of the same vegetable (broccoli or lettuce, for example) on the same day. Maintain Before adding plant waste to the compost pile, chop it upâor run over it with your power mowerâto speed decomposition. Prune deciduous fruit trees as soon as they are done fruiting, to help keep trees smaller and fruit within reach. More Videos From Sunset When planting annuals, pinch or prune off flowers and buds to direct all initial growth to the roots and help avoid transplant shock. Protect Spread a thick blanket of straw between plants in ve...