Summer is waning, although it may not feel like it, and fall is on the way. In the garden, that means it’s prep time. The growing season in Las Vegas is shorter than spring, but it is long enough to get some good veggie crops in. Some seeds should be started now to be transplanted to the outdoor garden bed or a good container on the porch or patio.
Gardening and Homeschooling
We put gardening in our homeschool schedule around the end of August. It gets us outside and active and is a signal that the homeschool year has started. We have some units on the cycle of seeds and weather to pair with our homeschool gardening. A good way to know what to plant when is to look at the number of days the veggies you plan to harvest will need to mature. If you plant in mid-August, you will have roughly 15 weeks left in the growing season. Plan to harvest no later than the last week in November and you should be just fine. I turn to online resources like Garden to figure out what we’ll be planting and when.