While your baskets are filling with your long-awaited tomatoes, zucchini and peppers, you might not be thinking about the months to come. But the garden season doesn’t have to end when the weather cools off. Midsummer is the perfect time to start plants for a second harvest. Here are five vegetables you can plant right now and enjoy in a couple of months. Happy harvesting!
Marisa plants early and late crops like these to make sure she gets every last harvest out of her Wisconsin garden.
SWEET BASIL
Ocimum basilicum
By midsummer, basil is usually sending up flowers and setting seed, causing the
