Spring is in the air and is bringing warmer temperatures, for some places that is.
If you spent the winter or early spring starting seeds indoors, your plants should be getting ready to transplant out into the garden. Just a few things to remember though before you do this.
The plants need to be hardened off first. Hardening off means you slowly introduce them to fresh air, sunshine and the outdoor elements. As the temps warm up and on pretty days, you can take them outside and let them start getting use to the outdoors. Bring them back in when the sun is going down and the temps get lower. You do this slowly because you don't want to shock them. There is nothing worse than working so hard to start seeds and baby them to turn around and shock them and possibly loose them. I have done this myself. Lost every herb plant I had.
The next step is to find out what your last frost date is for your zone. Then it will be safe to transplant to the garden. Still keep an eye on the weather in case of potential sudden frosts or bad weather. Have something on hand to be able to cover them if necessary. I have had to cover plants like broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage before because of sudden frost out of no where. I did this with a bed sheet.
You can use hay, a sheet, milk jugs, jars, ziploc bags, trash bags etc. If using bags, just kind of tie them to the base of the plant so they want blow off.
Protect those babies with your life. You worked hard for them and they will bring you plenty of harvests and your work will not be in vain.
Happy Gardening. If you are going to plant a garden from seeds are already bought plants, check out our Gardening Page here on the blog. In the subheader, at the top of the homepage, are titles. Those titles are links to pages concerning that topic. Just click on it and it will take you directly to that page.
Happy reading. 😊
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