The summer season stretches out ahead, and there is a litany of reasons to get a vegetable garden going in 2020. Garlic, carrots, Swiss chard and kale are easy to raise cultivars, all hardy and prolific, along with squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and a handful of others, making a fresh harvest a possibility even for first time growers. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
The summer season stretches out ahead, and there is a litany of reasons to get a vegetable garden going in 2020. Garlic, carrots, Swiss chard and kale are easy to raise cultivars, all hardy and prolific, along with squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and a handful of others, making a fresh harvest a possibility even for first time growers. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
Memorial Day is the traditional launch date for gardeners in the mountains of New Hampshire, the bookend to Labor Day and 100 days of frost-free growing. That window of opportunity has broadened in recent decades, as global temperatures rise, but our Zone 5a location still delivers a wild range of weather.
This year, late May offers respite from spring’s unrelenting cold, mixed precipitation and punishing winds. With the mercury pushing 80, it appears we have finally turned the corner, leaving spring behind and heading toward the summer of 2020.
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