Get You Vegetable Seeds Of To A Flying Start By Warming Your Soil.
It is now the moment to consider warming-up your seed beds in the vegetable garden. Before you sow or plant out your greenhouse seedlings, cover the area or bed with black plastic sheeting pegged to the ground, and above this, make a cloche from clear plastic or glass. The black plastic will collect the sun’s rays and warm the soil; the cloche holds the collected heat and raises the temperature which ensures better germination of your young plants and earlier crops.
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