The 5 of the Best Easy-to-Grow Early Spring Crops

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1. I do grow all the plants you mentioned Kim. My cilantro already has gone to seed. So I'll try soaking the seeds and planting more. I love cilantro! I planted New Zealand spinach this year plus another variety. New Zealand is not supposed to bolt and I can't wait to try it! I grow lettuce too. I love garden lettuce. Just picked some yesterday and this will be the third picking I've had here in Vermont. I love Kale too and I have it in the morning with my eggs...sounds funny but they taste good together! Love your videos and the way you encourage us all to grow what we eat.......I agree!
2. Please share your recipe for parsley, cilantro dip.
3. @calikim29 those red containers behind you, do they have a bottom to them? They're actually a pretty color that adds to your garden
4. i planted the grand rapids leaf lettuce the first week of april/last week of march. >.< thought they were dead till i picked up my winter gardening book to look up what I was doing wrong. I discovered that grand rapids repeatedly hits top ten lists of cold resistant lettuce. I've also seen black seeded simpson sited as a heat resistant lettuce. So I'm gonna put them in planters in partial sun when it gets hot and use grand rapids first, then a couple different salad and microgreen mixes, and then the black simpson.
   
   But then again, you live in california, I live in Massachusattes.
   
   When planting early spring crops, I tend to start with lettuce, kale, spinach, and cool weather herbs. Made the mistake of trying to grow squash inside. Never doing that again.
5. I love your helpful videos. thanks for sharing. I am having problems with my leaf lettuce dying. any ideas? please look at my YouTube video to see what my problem is. thanks to all for any help. SouthernScots Organics
6. Hello Kim, I am a little confused here by what you call cool weather crops. Here in New Jersey, zone 6, we still get freezing temperatures at night (35-36 degrees) and gusty winds. I call this weather cold and not cool. Can these cool weather crops, when direct seeded, survive this kind of weather ? Officially, the last frost date here is around first week of may. I was tired bringing my potted plants in and out from hoophouse every day due to cold temperatures at night. I was wondering if I can sow cilantro and lettuce outside directly.
7. i love your video and i and love the way you sheer time in the garden with your best friend your dog.i have 3 dogs and i just love it have it whit me all a time.....!!!dogs is the best friends for me ,i know are friends for every one over there ...!!! good luck !!
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9. You should mention the wild edible mallow growing by the parsley.
10. good work,,,,,,
11. I planted my peas and onions yesterday! It was a great feeling to get my hands in the dirt outside :). Peas can actually be planted a month or so before the average last frost date and lettuce can be planted 2-3 weeks before the average last frost date, as can all cool weather crops. The only time the weather becomes an issue is if we get some unseasonably very cold weather for several days in a row. This year my lettuce lasted 2 weeks into January planted outdoors, I live in zone 6. So nice seeing all the green in your garden!
12. where i live, the last frost date is in may.... the weather fluctuates so much. it can be 70 degrees during the day and reach freezing at night. will that be an issue for this spring crop?
13. Just put in coriander, spinach, micro greens, kale and arugula seeds, in my warm propogator with heating mat.
    Mixed an organic 3-2-3 seed starter fertilizer into my planting soil. Put it under my grow light. I'm hoping for a rapid germination.
    Love your tutorials on how to plant just about everything.
14. mom and I have some catching up to do ...we haven't seen your videos for awhile now....with school and working we get to tired....hugs
15. Hi CaliKim. Alright, I've hitched myself to your wagon. Started composting based on your videos--although it isn't ready--and will plant these spring crops this week. I'm in Chicago, and it may be too early to plant--we have frost well into April, some years---but I'm going to take a shot that this will be an early Spring.
16. how about rosemary plant or seeds and why rosemary seeds take so long for to sprout
17. Thank you for helping me out. I didn't know which seed I should plant first.
18. it's still cold where i am. I planted lettuce but it's really leggy, is it not good or can I still grow lettuce.
19. Yes love them all!
20. Great video! Nice panning shots! Definitely agree with gently crushing the coriander pods. Love it all!