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Experimenting with Vegetable Gardening
The marigolds, calendula and alyssum are planted as tomato companion plants. Marigolds attract beneficial insects.
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You’ve waited all winter, and spring is so close! It’s just about time to start vegetables for early spring planting. You can sow cool season crops directly in the ground as soon as the soil temperature is at or above 5ºC. If the soil is wet and muddy, you’ll want to wait a few days until things dry out. Working wet soil can ruin its structure. Some people use polythene tunnels to warm the soil and give them an even bigger head start.
While you sow, don’t forget to feed your soil. Use Espoma Organic’s Garden-Tone, it is perfectly formulated for your vegetable garden.
Here are our top vegetable suggestions for early spring planting.
Spinach sprouts fairly quickly and is remarkably frost resistant, especially when grown under cover. Plants like the morning sun and are happy to have some afternoon shade. Fresh baby spinach is tasty and loaded with vitamins and minerals. Try a springtime salad with spinach and strawberries or put them in your favorite breakfast smoothie.
This beet relative is another excellent early spring crop that is easy to grow from seed. Once the leaves are 6 inches tall, you can begin to harvest the outer leaves. Let inner leaves stand for a later harvest. Chard contains 3 times the recommended daily intake of vitamin K and 44 percent of the recommended amount of vitamin A. Eat it raw or cooked.
Here’s great recipe suggestion for swiss chard
There are hundreds of different kinds of lettuce; they come in all colors, shapes and sizes. Harvesting baby greens is quick and easy. Look for varieties you can cut back that will regrow. Many can be harvested in just 30 days. They won’t flourish during cold snaps, but they won’t die unless temperatures dip below 28ºF.
Radishes are one of the fastest vegetables you can grow. They’re fun to grow with little ones because they come up before you know it. You can plant radishes alongside lettuce or other spring greens. As you harvest the radishes, the greens have more room to grow. Use them as an addition to salads and tacos or roast them for a delicious treat.
We all know kale is a super food — cooked kale delivers more iron than beef. Lucky for us it grows easily from seed. Harvest the outer leaves for baby kale and let the rest of the foliage grow to full size. It can produce a great deal of food with little effort. Sow kale early and protect from hard frosts.
Fresh grown peas are so sweet and delicious, even your kids will love them. And, the seeds are big enough for little hands to plant them. Plant them in the ground around St. Patrick’s Day or 4 to 6 weeks before that last frost free date. Some varieties will need a low trellis. Check the seed packet to see how tall they’ll grow. Grow sugar snaps or snow peas if you don’t want to do all the shelling regular peas require.
Learn more about starting a kid friendly vegetable garden.
The marigolds, calendula and alyssum are planted as tomato companion plants. Marigolds attract beneficial insects.
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I found a great recipe for rhubarb and orange jam, truly delicious. I picked fresh rhubarb from the garden, and extra oranges in the fridge.
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Add Some Winter Protection & Variety to Your Garden: Try Microgreens! Make the most of your plants this winter. Try out the cool and unique flavor of microgreens. Check out this article to learn how to protect your plants with snow, add variety to your garden with seed catalogs, and cultivate microgreens to spice up your breakfast.
Starting seeds, the first thing that you should see is a pair of leaves. These are seed leaves and almost every seed will start out this way.
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