How to get an early jump on your vegetable garden.

There are several ways in which you can get an early jump on your vegetable garden. This article details several things which you can do when braving the cool early planting season!


1. Make sure that you have all of your seeds and plants ordered. Nothing is worse than having gorgeous weather to plant in, but not having the seeds to plant.

2. Start your seeds early indoors or in a greenhouse if you have one. By starting seeds indoors you can get several weeks or even a couple of months of a head start on the growing season over seeding directly to your garden.

3. Make sure that you garden is staked out, soil turned over, and rows made or marked out. Also, make sure that you know where you want all the different plants to go in your garden.

4. If you have raised rows or mounds to plant in, then try covering them with black plastic several weeks before the last frost date in your area. Believe it or not this can warm the covered soil several degrees more than the surrounding soil. You can also leave the plastic on all season long to help control weeds, you simply need to cut slits in the plastic where you want to transplant your seedlings to. I personally do not leave the plastic on all season as I like more direct watering to my plants, but many people do like to leave it on and it works fine for them.

5. If the weather gets cool then try covering your plants with protection of any type: mulch, wood chips, sheets, plastic jugs with the open end cut off, plastic sheeting, etc.




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