Plant a Fall Garden

It's not too late to plant a fall garden, as long as you plant your veggies before the ground gets cold.  I keep saying that I'm going plant a garden - save money at the grocery, feel good about growing my own - but I admit, to date, I've proven to garden with a brown thumb.  I've yet to grow tomatoes successfully when everyone else has bushels to show for their efforts!

Alas, my daughter's 4-year-old kindergarten class planted a garden and I'm feeling inspired all over again.  Maybe I will start with one or two things and go from there?  But what to choose?  Beets (delicious with goat cheese), broccoli (the whole family will eat), cabbage (nah), carrots (homegrown carrots really taste like carrots), collards, lettuce...

What do you have growing in your garden and what's your best gardening tip for a newbie?

Charleston Gardening Event
Check out demonstrations and seminars about gardening during the "A Day in the Garden" event this Saturday (10/3) at Abide-A-While garden center in Mt. Pleasant.  They start the day at 10:30 with cooking demonstrations using fall herbs and vegetables, move on to seminars about growing your own organic herb and vegetable garden and how to plant fall container gardens and end with pottery demonstrations.