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By DR. DIANE RELF
Extension Consumer Horticulturist
Talk to everyone you can about their gardens. All good gardeners love to “cultivate” a new gardener. Bring up your questions with your local gardening experts — neighbors with productive, healthy gardens, garden club members. Contact your local Virginia Cooperative Extension office and the agents there can help you become part of the master Gardener program that offers a wealth of information about gardening.
Plan, plan, plan, and put it on paper. Many experienced gardeners start planning their vegetable gardens this month. They start with frost-tolerant crops (beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, Swiss chard, collards, kale kohlrabi, lettuce, onions, parsley, English peas, radishes, spinach, and turnips), then warmseason vegetables (beans, cantaloupes, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, pumpkins, squash, sweet com, tomatoes, and watermelons.
As experienced gardeners review seed catalogs and their notes from last year’s gardens, they are planning strategies for later in the season when crops needing very warm soil, such as
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