It's Planting Time Again!

You can start planting some of your favorite Spring vegetables on February 1 in our region. While I had the best intentions, and was at Renfrow's on 2/1 with my garden plan in hand, the plants and seeds I bought didn't actually get into the dirt until yesterday, the 7th.


Here's my plan for bed #5 this Spring. This bed gets the most shade once the trees in my yard leaf out, so I've designated it my main Spring bed. Yesterday, I planted lettuce plants, swiss chard plants and spinach plants with Early Scarlet Globe radish seeds and Sweet Georgia onion sets planted in-between. I also planted Dwarf Blue Curled, Vate's Strain kale seeds with Detroit Dark Red, Morse's Strain beet seeds in-between. Each box on my plan represents 1 square foot. I've planted companion plants together (i.e. radishes and lettuce), and I've chosen only plants that grow well together, such as onions and beets for this bed.


I'm not planting as many items in this bed this year since I found I had more lettuce last year than we could eat. Each head of lettuce will generate more leaves whenever you harvest some for a salad, reducing the number of heads you need to plant. That lesson learned saved me a considerable amount of money at Renfrow's this year! If you're thinking of planting a garden, then take a trip to Renfrow's. They have posters showing (by season) whether you should buy plants or seeds for each vegetable, they can give you the NC State Cooperative Extension chart listing planting dates for each vegetable, and if you don't want to think too hard about it all, they can pick out the plants you'll need to plant right now. Tell them I (the lady with all the kids and the red-headed husband) sent you!