Cool Season Vegetable Gardening

Vegetable crops are classified as either 'warm-season' or 'cool-season' according to their optimum planting time. Cool-season crops are generally planted in early fall to early spring because they do not tolerate the heat stress of the summer. However, cool-season crops vary in the specific horticultural practices needed for optimum production.

Join Matt Jones (Extension Horticulture Agent) and the Extension Master Gardener℠ volunteers of Chatham County for a workshop or webinar targeting home and community gardeners on how to grow cool-season vegetables.
Participants will learn about planting techniques and timing, best varieties, common problems, and harvesting methods for broccoli, cabbages, carrots. kales, lettuces, onions, peas, potatoes, and asparagus. Participants in the in-person workshop will learn more about soil sampling and fertilization, garden sanitation and clean up to reduce diseases and pests, how to sue planting calendars, methods for planting seeds and transplants, plant partners (companion planting), planting in containers, and crop rotation.There are two options to participate in this event:

Register to receive a pre-recorded webinar (200 slots available)

OR

Register to participate in an in-person workshop in Pittsboro, NC, which will include a pre-recorded webinar (30 slots available) taught by the Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Chatham County.

All registrants will receive the pre-recorded webinar, to be released on August 7th.The hands-on demonstration will include tips on choosing resistant varieties, growing tomatoes, scouting for pests and diseases, and harvesting tomatoes.

For more information, visit: https://chatham.ces.ncsu.edu/cool-season-vegetable-gardening/