Most kitchen gardens peak in June and quietly disappoint by August. It doesn't have to be that way. Succession planting is the one practice that keeps your Nevada County garden producing from spring all the way through October into November — and it's simpler than it sounds

Most garden tool advice assumes you have a shed full of equipment and a free Saturday to use it. This is not that. Here are the four things worth having in a Nevada County kitchen garden — and why everything else is optional.

Every spring the same question surfaces — this is the year the tomatoes work, right? It usually comes down to three things, and none of them are bad luck. Here's what's actually going wrong in Sierra foothills gardens, and how to fix it before the season slips away.