if you’re in the same zone as northern Utah.  Now is the time to start thinking about really cranking things up in your SFG.  Things like lettuce, carrots, radishes, spinach, and onions should be planted if they aren’t already.  In the meantime, if your starting things from seed you should be thinking of everything else.  Tomatoes, flowers, cucumbers, etc.  Because most squash plants come up so quickly, you can grow them directly in the garden once the danger of frost is over.  I like to start my squash inside.  The extra few weeks of early growing gets them up earlier and gives your later forming fruit time to finish(especially things like banana and butternut squash.)  If you’re a serious SFGer and are willing to do the extra work of watching the forecast and covering with plastic at night and during colder days, you can start you cold things outside.  This does not include tomatoes, flowers, herbs, and squash though.  By the middle of may you should have everything in your gardens: all produce with the addition of direct seeding of beets and garlic, squash, beans, carrots, onions, and flowers.  If you run into weather you should be prepared to cover them for protection.  The one item I did not mention was potatoes.  This is all dependent on what you’re trying to do.  I like to grow red Pontiac potatoes and I like them large.  So I will plant those this weekend and let them grow until the first of November.  Some people like to grow new potatoes so they will start theirs anytime between now and the middle of May.  This don’t need the whole growing season since they ar pulled up when they are smaller.  The picture in this post shows what some of my seeds are looking like in my little pot maker cups.  It was taken a few days ago.  Of the first 24 pot maker cups I planted, 23 of them are up, with Heliotrope the only one not up yet.  This is only because Heliotrope takes a longer time to sprout.  The smell of this plant is great in your square foot garden.  Keep this one in mind if you’re looking for adding scent in your SFG…..

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