Sometimes you will hear to plant your garden around Mother’s Day, but let's take a deeper look at that for here on the Front Range of Colorado. There are a few important things to consider, including whether you have cool or warm season veggies, that I will discuss below. Here, we often have frost on or past Mother’s Day, around May 15th. But wait! Even after the threat of frost passes, temperatures still need to rise for warm season veggies to truly thrive.

Hello there! In the previous installments of an introductory guide to growing your own food, we’ve covered site observation, selection and planning in part 1, and in part 2, site preparation. Now we’re diving into where to get the plants.