BY DALE & CARRIE SPOONMORE
March is a Favorite Month for Gardening
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ello Moore! It’s Dale & Carrie Spoonemore here to talk about what you can do in March to grow food! We converted our lawn into gardens to feed our family of 6, and we built our free app to make it easy for you to grow food too! Our app will give you customized planting dates (with reminders!) based on your location and will guide you through all aspects of growing your own food! Learn more and download for free at seedtospoon.net.
We’re also beginning to transplant the kale, broccoli, and cabbage we started indoors last month and will direct seed more throughout our garden. We plant these densely and trim them down as they grow, eating the super-nutritious “microgreens.” Check out our guide for how we grow microgreens at seedtospoon.net/microgreens.
Lastly, March is a great time to transplant herbs into your Fragrant simple to do so with automated irrigation and garden! have guides on YouTube showing how easy it herbs like rosemary, thyme, is to build it out of PVC pipe or install drip ir- oregano, sage, and chives rigation system. Learn more at seedtospoon. are some of our FAnet/watering. VORITE things to Peas also prefer to be planted from seed, and grow and have nuMarch is a great time to get them started! Peas merous health benerequire something to climb on, and a trellis can fits! Check out what conditions easily be made by attaching cattle panels to health t-posts. Check out our YouTube channel for full each plant helps details on how we build trellises on the cheap! within our app and even filter by a specific health condition to find more plants to help you! These herbs also help repel pests from your other plants too! You can check out which plants help each other in our free app with the “companion March is prime time for planting root crops plants” feature! like carrots, beets, radish, and others. These plants don’t like to be transplanted and are (Editor's note: this best planted directly outside from seed. One article originally ran in key to planting these outside is keeping the the March 2019 issue seeds moist until they sprout. We’ve found it of Moore Monthly.) March is one of our favorite times of the year for growing food. Life is beginning to emerge from the cold & dead of winter, and new sprouts are popping up everywhere! We’re starting many things directly from seed outdoors in March, and are continuing to plant new rounds of spring seeds indoors to transplant later. Check out our website for detailed guides on how we start seeds indoors on the cheap at seedtospoon.net/IndoorSeeds.
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