Spring Vegetable Garden

You’ve prepared your vegetable garden plot and now it’s time to plant your vegetable garden. Gardening tips and gardening ideas for successful vegetable gardening can be found here, so let’s get started! Vegetables that can be planted between February – March include:

Asparagus, Beet, Broccoli (plants), Cabbage (plants), Carrot, Cauliflower (seeds and plants), Endive, Kohlrabi, Lettuce (Leaf and Head), Mustard, Onion (sets or plants), Garden Peas (try English peas, Dwarf sugar pod peas), Irish Potato, Radish, Rhubarb, Rutabaga, Spinach and Turnips

Gardening Tip #1: My mother’s favorite vegetable gardening tip is buying mustard, kale, and rape seeds mixed and sow altogether; then harvest and cook altogether.

Healthy Living Tip & Gardening Idea: If you’re seeking healthy recipes, try this spinach recipe (or substitute mustard greens blend in #1 or make it a turnip greens recipe). Stew greens with white cornmeal dumplings, Irish potatoes, salt, pepper, and seasoning meat.

Gardening Tip #2: Keeping mustard greens’ (kale, rape, etc.) buds cut when they get two inches increases yield.

Gardening Tip #3: A top gardener supply is Burpee Seed Company. Aside from seeds, they have a Growing Zone Finder. Another gardener supply: Gurney’s.

Gardening Tip #4: After planting your vegetable garden, water well and put down straw mulch to retain moisture and keep weeds out.

Gardening Tip #5: Many gardeners cut bottoms off milk cartons, plastic milk jugs or 2-liter plastic bottles (remove tops to let air in) and place over plants to keep cutworms away, protect and warm vegetable garden plants. Remove as vegetable garden plants grow and temperature warms.

Gardening Tip #6: If you use Seven Dust, wait until it rains to harvest or wait a week and spray thoroughly.

Healthy Living Tip: For a corned beef and cabbage recipe, you can’t go wrong with this mouth-watering Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe from Farmer’s Almanac. This is a super-healthy recipe based on the traditional Irish dish.

Gardening Tip #7: Start vegetables like tomatoes, pepper and eggplant indoors or in cold frames to transplant when soil warms. They’re also excellent for container gardening.

Gardening Tip #8: Thin fast-growing turnip crop often to give roots plenty of room.

Gardening Tip #9: For fresh vegetables FAST, buy bundles of pre-started scallions to plant. Start seeds indoors.

Gardening Tip #10: For recommended plant spacing and days to maturity, see this free garden planner from Wyatt-Quarles Seed Company.

Check out my article Gardening Tips for secrets to *dramatically increase* yields, more gardening ideas and healthy recipes (one is an awesome vegetable beef soup recipe).