If you can't wait any longer, you can harvest certain vegetables in September. These include potatoes, turnips, beets and radishes.
When summer comes to an end, it is harvest time for many types of vegetables. But you shouldn't harvest everything right away, but look at the plants and the fruits first, because not all of them are ready yet. It also doesn't hurt if you heed the tips we give you here:
- Beets, beets and radishes are harvested from September. Only harvest the large specimens here. The little ones can stay on the plant until mid-October. This gives them another growth spurt and they get really big and heavy.
- If you want to harvest potatoes earlier, it helps if you regularly hoe the soil and pile up the potato plant. Otherwise, potatoes are ready to harvest from the end of September. They are brought up with a digging fork on dry days and should lie there for a while to dry off. At a storage temperature of 2 to 8 degrees, potatoes can even last for several weeks.