It doesn’t matter if it snows. It doesn’t matter if it freezes, within reason. Cool-season vegetables can withstand it all. They need to cool weather to develop properly. They can adapt to ups and downs in the weather.
Before you plant, prepare your beds. They’ll need to be dug and raked. Consider beds that are below grade or trenches. In our dry climate, it makes sense to plant in depressed beds that catch rainwater or can be easily watered by flooding the bed.
Leafy greens such as lettuce, spinach and mustard can go in now. Use starter plants from the nursery or plant by seed. Cole crops such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli can also be planted now. Root crops such as carrots, beets, radish and turnips are usually planted by seed.
Most people plant onions from small sets or seedlings. Plant them right near the surface with just the pointed end sticking out. They can be planted about two inches apart. Pull every other one early to use as scallions, leaving the rest to mature to full size.
If you don’t have garden space, many vegetables can be grown successfully in pots. Snow is an insulator and actually protects plants. If the weather gets really cold, use sheets or frost covers for added protection.
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It’s vegetable gardening 101. It’s a refresher course for those of you who already know how to do it, but it’s time to start planting some vegetables. Actually we’ve been planting vegetables. Look at my hands. So aside from going to get some vegetables, you have to make sure that your beds are ready. A friend of mine said, Well, I heard your vegetables aren’t doing too good, and I said, Where did you hear that? And she said, well, on TV you said that your vegetable beds were below grade. The vegetables are just fine, but the vegetable beds are below grade. Heather, you explain. OK, I will try. Raised beds are above grade. Rob’s beds are just a little bit below the natural surface. The whole point is to gather the water either from the rain or from a hose and keep it where it is needed most. Cabbage is a great cool season crop that develops in early spring and keeps on going through the heat, but to get a head start, we’re going to use these nursery plants. There are 2 of the cabbage plants in each pot, but cabbage does best as a single plant, so we will simply cut them apart with a serrated knife. As we’re planting, we’re going to add a little bit of fertilizer first and yay, off we go. A trench is another viable water wise way to plant. It’s below grade, so it’s easy to flood to water these onions. Onions should be planted right at the surface. You can plant them fairly close and harvest every other one of scallions. The rest can mature to full size. Some of the other things you can plant right now are basically any of your leafy greens like spinach or lettuce. We’ve got some cauliflower and leeks. If you didn’t plant the garlic in the ground in the fall like you should have, you can always buy. Garlic starts. If you don’t have space in the ground, you can always plant in pots. This lettuce bowl that we planted several weeks ago is going great. This is also the time to plant your root vegetables like your beets, your radishes, your carrots, and turnips if you’re so inclined. I’m not. And this seed right here, this is for a yellow radish and it’s called golden helios. All of these cool season plants can take frost and snow. Actually snow is a good thing because snow is an insulator, but if temperatures really plummet, we’re talking low, you can cover them with roof covers or sheets or I like these CD covers these fit right over a cabbage.
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Cd covers, ok Boomer 😀
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