Happy Friday. Today's Q&A is a perfect follow-up to Tuesday's episode where we talked about

when to take out summer plants. Well, today it's going to be more focused on what to remove

to get ready for the fall garden. Because I don't know about your garden, but with my garden,

I have a very large spring and summer garden. And I do do a lot of

gardening in the fall, but I don't have enough fall crops to completely fill my garden. So that

actually works out well because there are certain things that I want to keep in place for a while.

And then there's certain areas that I need to get ready for some of those

fall crops. To give you a little bit of a timing example, there are certain crops that will go

until, unless there's a disease problem, that will go and continue producing until you're frost,

if you have a frost. And so for me, that's going to be like pole

beans, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, indeterminate tomatoes. But there are certain fall crops that need to be

in the garden like two months ahead of time, ahead of that. For example, my carrots and lettuce, for example, broccoli, cabbage, those need to go in

the garden before those summer crops come out. So how do we make space for the fall garden crops?

And I think you'll find a lot of this to really echo what I talked about on Tuesday's full

episode. But for me, the crops that are going to come out to make room for a fall garden are going to be

determinate tomatoes such as my romas.

I take those out to get ready for a fall crop.

What I've been doing the past several years that has worked out well is I take Roma tomatoes out.

I usually have time

for a quick cover crop such as buckwheat. But even if I didn't, what I do is I take out the Roma

tomato plants and that's where my broccoli goes. And so that's when summer crop comes out and then

the fall crop goes in. The same thing with bush beans. Also, any squash that has

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