What is the first thing you put in a garden?
Soil is the most valuable part of your garden so it is important to add manure, organic materials or any of the many forms of compost offered at your local garden supply store; it is never possible to have too much of this! Once your soil is ready, everything will fall into place. Whether your soil is light and sandy or heavy clay, digging in bulky organic matter – which means well-rotted manure, compost, leafmould, composted bark, mushroom compost or anything in fact that you can get in bulk – will help.
What is the best month to start planting?
Tip: you may even want to contact your local extension office for exact planting dates and schedules. The graphic above shows you: cool- season crops that need to be planted between september – february. Warm – season crops that need to be planted between the march – august. You can plant or harvest something from your garden almost all year. The two major planting periods, however, are spring (march to may) and fall (mid-july to september). The spring plantings are harvested in june and july, while the fall plantings are harvested from october to december.Depending on your USDA hardiness zone, October is an ideal time to plant cool-season vegetable seedlings that you can often harvest throughout the winter into early spring. For a successful harvest, always begin with viable seeds or healthy transplants.Fall is often considered the best time of year to plant new trees. Generally, late August, September and October are the best months. It all depends, though, on when it actually feels like fall. As long as the hottest days of summer are gone and the ground isn’t frozen yet, you can still plant trees.