The Best Way to Insulate Your Soil Now so You Can Plant Earlier in the Spring

Come late winter in my garden, I’m like an Olympic swimmer hanging over the starting block: I have ordered the seeds, plotted the beds, started the starts, and I’m waiting eagerly to plant all the things. Unfortunately, the gardener’s starting—the weather—is often uncooperative, and I spend a month or two in limbo,…

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