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Maintain a Healthy Garden  * Written by: Tonny Youg When the sunflowers are in full bloom, you know it is time to plant your fall garden. Some of the vegetables are great for the fall like Kohlrabi, beets, carrots, endive, lettuces, broccoli and spinach. In this post, I am going to start with carrots. The temperature of vegetable garden seeds is very important to their growth. Some cool season crops like spinach won't geminate if the soil is too warm. In fact, it needs to be below 75 degrees. I am planting carrots which don't mind zero temperature up to 95 degrees. But they will be happy when it gets cooler. Just cover the seeds with soil. You don't have to plant them deep. Just about a quarter of inch deep would be fine. Add a little bit of water and it is done. Good garden equipment can increase the gemination of the seeds. If you want to plant the spinach soon, you can put the shade fabric over the bed to cool the soil down to the right temperature so ...