If the rain has washed away your young fall vegetables, or if you lacked the will to put in a garden, take heart. There's still a way for you to get a steady supply of fresh, organic, in-season vegetables.

Kate Lee, the owner of Garden City Organics on Broad Street (formerly the Oasis) can help you out. In June, she started a community farm.

You can sign up for a six-week session that weekly provides you with a box of eight to 12 vegetables, fruits, herbs and juices that are in season. It costs $25 a week, or $150 for the six-week session. You can sign up for individual shares for a smaller weekly supply.

Ms. Lee has started sessions for fresh baked goods, and dairy that offers butter, milk, yogurt and cheeses from organic farms in Georgia.

Ms. Lee's gardens in Beech Island and North Augusta are still in the beginning stages, so she is working with other organic gardeners in the area to prepare the assortment of produce boxes.

All of the produce is organic, although a number of the greens are hydroponics and some fertilizer must be used.

"We are getting so much support and encouragement from a lot of people," Ms. Lee said.

If you are still bent on doing it on your own, (my lettuce and kale are all of e-inch high, what wasn't washed away by last week's rains), I pulled my notes from the organic class from Master Gardeners '09. (Thanks to Kay Pittman who has an organic community farm in Hartwell, S.C.):

- Kelp and seaweed are good nutrition for your plants.

- Variety means diversity, which builds healthy gardens.

- Mix up the plants in the garden to confuse bad insects.

- Stay out of the garden after a rain because you can spread disease, not to mention compact the soil.

Reach Sandy Hodson at (706) 823-3226 or sandy.hodson@augustachronicle.com.