The ten day forecast has us looking at warm wet weather. Normally in March I would say wait a few weeks before planting much outside, but this is an opportunity to get some seed or transplants if you have them in the ground. Don’t get crazy with planting right now, but if you have a few square feet in your garden you can put seed in that if you are successful will give you an early vegetable harvest. I would still follow with another planting or two in a few weeks to stay on a normal rotation.
I plan on putting some transplants in that I started when I did a Seed Starting Program for the Four Seasons Garden Club in Logan.
They will go under cover in my kitchen garden. I am not really worried about the cold, but the squirrels and bunnies will eat them if I don’t. Deer would be a problem as well. There is very little food out there for wildlife right now, so don’t plant any for them.
This is also a great time to take a look at your compost pile and think about giving it a mix. If your compost pile looks like this:
Stir it up and let Mother Nature water it for you. I am definately a cold compost pile person, but even a little bit of improvement will go a long way towards finished compost later in spring.
