You may not know this, but watermelons do famously in South Dakota. In fact, the town of Forestburg provides the state with watermelons, and it’s good business. Glaciers cut through East-Central South Dakota in ancient times, leaving the sandy silt of moraines along and within its path. While much of eastern South Dakota has clay …
The early July garden in zone five begins to add yellow to the green harvest basket. Beans, summer squash and peas fill up the bowl this time of year.
July is when the zone five garden gets going. Expect to harvest cherry tomatoes, summer squash, baby carrots and cucumbers.
What can you grow in Zone Five for an August harvest? Almost all vegetables common to the United States. Carrots, beans, apples, squash, tomatoes peppers…
The August Garden is bountiful from the first to the thirty-first. Expect a colorful harvest of peppers, tomatoes, melons, beans, cucumbers…
The September garden is wild and productive. Winter squash, carrots, peppers and potatoes do the best in the USDA Zone 5 garden.