Many years ago when I was doing an internship with Mel he said to me: “what if you have a vegetable garden that is protected from wind, rain, snow and other bad weather?  All of a sudden, you have a different garden!”  And that’s the truth.  Today it’s been warm-about 60-but it’s been very windy.  I have now planted 2 complete boxes in the 2X16′ garden(16 squares.)  First, if I had a traditional garden I wouldn’t be able to plant yet.  The ground would still be frozen solid.  But then even if it were ready to go it would dry out quickly because of the windy conditions.  Because I cover my garden with plastic-making sure it’s vented so as to not get too hot-I can create an ideal growing environment for the items I’ve planted.  As others are attempting to get their gardens ready and getting out those tillers-do you notice the soil after their done?  It’s all in clumps!  That’s because the ground is not ready to be rototilled yet-it’s too early for those gardens.  Not so for the SFGer.  While your friendly neighbors are out there tilling away, we now have possible rain and snow in the forecast for this weekend.  That’s an easy thing for all SFGer to handle, but it’s not such an easy thing for a traditional row gardener.  So far I have now planted 8 squares of a variety of lettuce, 5 squares of spinach, 1 square of radishes, 1 square of carrots, and 1 square of walla-walla onions…..

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