The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
August is the perfect time to refresh your garden with cool-season favorites like spinach, chard, kale, and lettuce that thrive as temperatures drop and can carry you into a flavorful fall harvest. With the right soil prep and steady watering, you can keep fresh vegetables coming well beyond summer.
The healthiest leafy greens do more than fill a salad bowl. Turnip greens, arugula, kale, bok choy, and watercress supply key vitamins, fiber, and antioxidants that support heart health, bone strength, and healthy blood sugar.
Essential Concepts
Leafy greens: vitamin-rich, low-calorie, high-fiber
Top picks: turnip greens, kale, arugula, bok choy, watercress
Benefits: heart, bones, blood sugar, immunity
Keep your garden thriving through fall by planting late-summer favorites like spinach, lettuce, kale, beets, radishes, cabbage, broccoli, and beans. With the right timing and a little care, you can enjoy a plentiful harvest well into the cooler months.
Craving a quick garden harvest? Discover five fast-growing veggies—including radishes, lettuce, spinach, bok choy, and arugula—that can go from seed to plate in under a month, even in small spaces.
Essential Concepts: Darker vegetables usually contain more nutrients. Carrots, spinach, kale, asparagus, and lentils supply key vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber that support vision, bone health, heart health, blood pressure, and digestion.