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Sowing Spring Veggies and Succession Gardening

highwaygardener
12 years ago

A fellow poster on here gave me a great link about how soil temp affects germination time of various seeds. It's a great link:

http://tomclothier.hort.net/page11.html

But it's slightly discouraging too...we have been planning on setting out some spring vegie seeds such as peas, spinach, green onions, turnips and so forth around March 15th, which is the recommended average date around our parts. But now I'm wondering if those seeds are just going to sit in the ground for ages and end up running into the Summer veg planting times. I was hoping to do some succession gardening and get two crops out of each garden bed this year.

The time to set out squash melon seed is the beginning of May here, and the time to set out pepper and tomato starts is late May.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Has anyone done well with succession plantings in zone 5? Does anyone start things like peas and green onions indoors to save time?

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