It’s time to get planting
The rule I learned growing up was that vegetable gardens got planted Mother’s Day weekend. Apparently, that’s when the chance of a frost absolutely, positively done with. We’d plant the established vegetable plants my father had bought from a nursery every year around Mother’s Day.
I now know that while that was a good rule to make sure tomatoes and peppers did okay, there are many vegetables that can be planted much earlier. I’m not talking about starting seeds indoors (but I will talk about that in a few days). I’m talking about actually planting out in the garden. I’ve read that vegetables like cabbage, spinach, lettuce , onion, rhubarb and peas can be planted up to six weeks before the last frost date so I’m going to give it early planting a shot this year. The last frost date for my region falls somewhere between April 5-10 so I figure it’s time to get planting.
I think I’m going to plant onion, rhubarb, and a couple of lettuces this upcoming weekend.
Do you do any early vegetable gardening. What do you plant? Any advice for me since I’m trying it for the first time?
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Robin, I could lots to say on this, but I’ll restrain myself. Go for it, have fun!
I put my lettuce, kale, peas, and radish seeds in yesterday in Kansas. It rained last night – perfect. All you need to know is to water every morning until the seeds germinate, if it has not rained. If the weather gets too cold again they just grow slower or don’t germinate right away.