Plant spring greens now & be harvesting by May!)

Hey folks, Farmer Joe here coming at you fresh from the field. So today we're looking at lettuce here that's been planted and protected with this row cover because one thing that I want to address is you don't have to wait until May 24th to start planting your garden. You can actually plant cold hardy greens. Look it's still spring and we already have stuff growing. The key is to protect it at night or from freezing temperatures. And so we got here lettuce. You can also do arugula, radishes, spinach. These are all very cold tolerant crops. Main thing is that when they freeze they need to be covered with row cover because that's going to create a sheltered microclimate where they're protected from the wind and it does add them a couple degrees Celsius of protection. And so with row cover and with early planting you can be eating greens from your garden in the month of May instead of waiting for May to plant your garden. I really think of it like you can actually have three gardens in your garden this year. You can have your spring garden which is full of spinach and radishes and green onions and lettuce and all those cold hardy crops. And then as the warmer weather arrives you can pull those out and plant your tomatoes and cucumbers and zucchinis and peppers and all those heat loving crops. And then in the fall you know at the end of August early September you can plant more greens around your tomato plants and have another crop of greens. You can actually get three gardens out of every garden during the year.