Spring Garden
It’s time to start planning for my 2025 vegetable garden. The seed catalogs are filling my mailbox. I placed my order for seed potatoes today (many varieties were already out of stock). I chose Yukon Gold and French Fingerlings. I’ll make other seed purchases soon. I love the taste of these tender French string beans. Roots laden with nitrogen-fixing nodules are an added soil bonus. I have lived and gardened in the NC Blue Ridge Mountain area for several years but still consult Hardiness Zone calendars for yearly updates. The link will take you to a website where you can drill down to your specific state and hardiness zone. In the example above, I can see that I live in Zone 7a (in the Appalachian Mountain foothills). It will also show you first and last frost dates. The chart includes a warning that there is a 10% chance of an earlier or later frost and cautions the gardener to watch local weather reports. From this information I see that I have approximately 175 gro...