Plan Your Best Season Yet!

We just added a free 8-page Vegetable Garden Planner you can download and print — goals, a master planting list, a shopping list with budget tracker, a planting log, and a blank layout grid for sketching your beds.

Grab it while it's fresh!

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If your porch, patio, or balcony pots are looking tired now that tomato season is winding down, don't put them away yet.

Lettuce, kale, chard, spinach, and radishes all do beautifully in containers once the weather cools — and pots let you carry everything to shelter the night of an early frost.

See what to plant and what size pot each one needs:

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Scarecrows, Anyone?

We just added a free printable Vegetable Garden Care and Maintenance Chart to the site — a beautiful at-a-glance reference covering all seven areas of summer garden care.

Download it free by clicking the link below:

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It's Not Too Late to Plant

August feels like the end of the growing season, but it's actually prime time to start a fall crop.

Lettuce, spinach, kale, radishes, and bunching onions all germinate quickly in still-warm soil and finish up in the cool weeks ahead.

If you have any bare ground or an empty pot right now, this is the week to fill it. More on timing and crop choices here: fall-vegetable-garden.html

BACK TO SCHOOL? WE HAVE FREE WORKSHEETS FOR KIDS

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With school just around the corner, this is a great time to bookmark our free kids garden activity library. Teachers and homeschool parents love these — and they are all free to print.

A few favorites:

Vegetable Garden Scavenger Hunt — three grade levels from Preschool through Grade 4, perfect for an end-of-summer garden walk

Vegetable Flash Cards — 32 vegetables, great for learning plant names

Gardening Activity Workbooks for ages preschool through 7th-8th grades.

Plant Life Cycle Worksheets — six levels from Preschool through Grade 8

Cut and Paste Activity Sets — color, cut, and create for younger children

Everything is free to download and print as many copies as you need. Visit our Kids Gardening page to see the complete library.

A WORD ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER

Happy gardening, Charlotte

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