7 Crops to Plant Outside Before the Last Frost (3/6 - Zone 5)

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1. Thanks for all the great clips. Do you have a clip on your worm bin? I need to fab something that I can get the castings out more easily.
2. Just started to sow a few of those here :-)
   Cheers mate & have a great week.
3. Last time I checked still no germination in my winter sowing. I've added some flats with plastic domes and several more varieties of seeds. Like you no snow left here but not quite as warm as you are having it. Above freezing most days though.
4. This is amazing... Have you every planted this early before? What do you think your soil temp is..? Did you put a widow in the Greenhouse yet?
5. Hi Patrick, I'm planning to use 30g fleece this year when transplanting outside so I can skip on hardening and also hopefully allow the seedlings to survive the frost night, have you tried using these, wonder how it worked as this is first time I will do this.
6. Great video, thank you very much, Patrick! Our last frost is around May15, sometimes later, but I'll just shift your schedule and start as soon as the snow has finally melted... Say hello to your cat! :))
7. Thanks Patrick! I need to do more direct sowing like this. So everything you sowed this day you will do succession? how many weeks apart?
8. Nice one Patrick! I used to know a gardener who grew parsnips in lengths of old drainpipe filled with sifted compost and sunk a little into the ground. You should have seen the size of the parsnips he grew and how straight they were!
   
   I've found a source of wood chippings thankfully - a company near here has a large pile of them and are happy for me to take as many away when I start building paths. I am currently raiding their wood waste ship and only wish I had a wood burning stove as I would never need to buy fuel again!
9. I enjoyed watching you planting.  I would have tried planting some parsnips but just haven't been able to find the seeds.  I did have some spinach and lettuce seedlings planted.  It will be great to see the update for the seeds you planted in this video.  Thanks.
10. Thanks for posting this, i am right on track. I am zone 6/7 (border) with a similar last frost date. With the El Nino weather this year, i think this has a lot to do with the unseasonable warmth.  I too am planning ahead.  I put in beets, lettuce, peas, radishes, spinach, carrots, and bok choy.  In a 4 by 8 bed, I put 28 different varieties. For my map of what is where I use graph paper with 3 SFG panel sketches for each bed. In the first I write the main veggie category, {head lettuce, leaf lettuce, spinache, radishes, etc...} In the second panel I write the planting strategy for example a beet box would be [[111][222][333]] a radish box would be [[1122][1122][3344][3344]]; a bok choy box would be [[12][34]].  Is what this does is gives me what week to plant that corner or row within the box. So for the beets I plant the first planting along the top edge, the second planting along the middle edge and the third planting along the bottom edge. Radishes the first planting is in the upper left corner. Bok Choy is also in the upper left corner.  In the third panel of my sketch I write the actual variety, with 9 types of lettuce seeds and 6 types of beets, I don't want to mix and match.  For carrots I plant the whole box, I break the rules and plant 40/square and have done quite well, I dig the square before planting and then sift the soil 1/4 inch back into the hole before planting.  Carrots are the only time where I actually dig the soil out of the box. For peas, I do 16 per squre, the packet says 2 to 3 inches apart, when I do the math, that says to me I can put 25 per square.  We tried 9 different varieties of peas, I planted them the day after the snow melted from the bed, we used jute for pea trellises, It was a pain removing them from the nylon squares last year so now I will just cut and compost and then add the nylon trellis for the next(undecided) crop.  Thank you so much for taking the time to put these videos together.
11. Can't believe you're in a T-shirt already! Snow is slowly but surely melting here, we'll get there...eventually ;-)
12. Thanks for sharing Patrick. I am going to start planting out as soon as the rain gets out of here. I need to decide what to plant first. Best wishes Bob.
13. I really enjoy your videos and planting method. I uncovered my winter garden yesterday and ate some corn salad for the first time. harvested 3 giant carrots and left 4 more in the bed. I have a row of spinach, lettuce, cabbage plants, mustard, chard and some kale.
14. Spring is more exciting than Christmas to me. I'm so looking forward to watching the rest of your spring-garden videos! What do you do with the dead leaves on your raised beds that have not decomposed over winter? As I planted my spinach and radishes the other day, I noticed slugs hiding under the leaves, which makes me think I shouldn't keep them as ground cover.
15. I'm about 50 miles west of you. Just put up a low tunnel to start my radishes, peas, pac choi, and spinach. I'm glad to know I can plant parsnips now, too. After watching this video, I am inspired to put up 3 or 4 more mini-hoops next week!
    Have you ever planted over-wintering cauliflower? I just got seeds for this plant. You start it in summer and over- winter it. In April you can be eating fresh Cauliflower. Sounds great to me. What do you think? If you want to explore it, I can get you the seed source... or you can google Galleon cauliflower. It is originally an English heirloom.
16. Excellent episode. Here in zone 3 I am just about ready to do the same thing and plant some cold Hardy crops under two layers. It sure has been a warm winter.
17. Thanks Patrick for sharing all your tips and techniques. Great information also. I put up a small hoop house yesterday. I will be using a 'row cover' with the hoop house if we are to get freezing temps.
18. I've said this before, But I cannot say it enough. Your channel is awesome. You are so full of information. And you are good at making it easy to understand for a beginner. Thank You for sharing your knowledge. I can't get enough :)
19. As always, great video!
20. Your soil looks amazing! Another very helpful video. Thank you for continuing to share your gardening wisdom.