Grow Your Own Magazine

It had been a freezing winter and early spring here in the Pacific Northwest.

I went out early, but not as early in the year as my fellow gardeners. Many gardens were rich with winter vegetables but my plot lay dormant and waiting. I prepared my salad plot and planted lettuce, spinach, carrots, beets, of which only the beets and spinach came up. The following weeks unexpected snow and ice and freezing wind put a damper on my Southwestern spirit. I stayed as warm as I could indoors....

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