{"id":2472,"date":"2019-01-28T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:21:46","slug":"early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Early season vegetable garden preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January and February are key times to start to get your vegetable garden up and running. As the sun becomes stronger as we progress towards spring you can use the suns power to heat.\u00a0up the soil and enable early crops and earlier seed germination.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2473\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUsing black plastic sheeting to cover areas of your vegetable garden will help to warm the soil up by collecting the heat from the sun and helping the soil to dry out and in turn creating a perfect seed bed for starting to sowing seeds in March.<br \/>\nAnother system to enable early crops is to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=cloches&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">cloches<\/a> which can be purchased online or can be make with some fencing wire and clear plastic. In January they are ideally for sowing early season peas<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January and February are key times to start to get your vegetable garden up and running. As the sun becomes stronger as we progress towards spring you can use the suns power to heat.\u00a0up&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Early season vegetable garden preparation &#8211; GardenAdvice.co.uk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early season vegetable garden preparation &#8211; GardenAdvice.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January and February are key times to start to get your vegetable garden up and running. As the sun becomes stronger as we progress towards spring you can use the suns power to heat.\u00a0up&#046;&#046;&#046;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GardenAdvice.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GardenAdvice.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-28T09:21:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"tim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@mygardenteam\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@mygardenteam\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"tim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"tim\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#\/schema\/person\/6cad179ef10e5b57d5c101da14acfcb0\"},\"headline\":\"Early season vegetable garden preparation\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-28T09:21:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/\"},\"wordCount\":133,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Head Gardener\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/\",\"name\":\"Early season vegetable garden preparation &#8211; GardenAdvice.co.uk\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-28T09:21:46+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Early season vegetable garden preparation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/\",\"name\":\"GardenAdvice.co.uk news and articles\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GardenAdvice.co.uk news and article\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/cropped-favicon.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/cropped-favicon.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"GardenAdvice.co.uk news and article\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GardenAdvice.co.uk\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/mygardenteam\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mygardenteam\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/gardenadvice-co-uk\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/gardenadvice\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#\/schema\/person\/6cad179ef10e5b57d5c101da14acfcb0\",\"name\":\"tim\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e5c2b9aca8f9a17918f8497bc9e15440342fabbefbf9ffb071a6b0dc5fb657a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e5c2b9aca8f9a17918f8497bc9e15440342fabbefbf9ffb071a6b0dc5fb657a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e5c2b9aca8f9a17918f8497bc9e15440342fabbefbf9ffb071a6b0dc5fb657a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"tim\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/author\/tim\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Early season vegetable garden preparation &#8211; GardenAdvice.co.uk","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Early season vegetable garden preparation &#8211; GardenAdvice.co.uk","og_description":"January and February are key times to start to get your vegetable garden up and running. As the sun becomes stronger as we progress towards spring you can use the suns power to heat.\u00a0up&#46;&#46;&#46;","og_url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/","og_site_name":"GardenAdvice.co.uk","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GardenAdvice.co.uk","article_published_time":"2019-01-28T09:21:46+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"tim","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@mygardenteam","twitter_site":"@mygardenteam","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"tim","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/"},"author":{"name":"tim","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#\/schema\/person\/6cad179ef10e5b57d5c101da14acfcb0"},"headline":"Early season vegetable garden preparation","datePublished":"2019-01-28T09:21:46+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/"},"wordCount":133,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg","articleSection":["Head Gardener"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/","name":"Early season vegetable garden preparation &#8211; GardenAdvice.co.uk","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg","datePublished":"2019-01-28T09:21:46+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0608-768x1024.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/early-season-vegetable-garden-preparation\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Early season vegetable garden preparation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#website","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/","name":"GardenAdvice.co.uk news and articles","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#organization","name":"GardenAdvice.co.uk news and article","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/cropped-favicon.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/cropped-favicon.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"GardenAdvice.co.uk news and article"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GardenAdvice.co.uk","https:\/\/x.com\/mygardenteam","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mygardenteam\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/gardenadvice-co-uk","https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/gardenadvice\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/#\/schema\/person\/6cad179ef10e5b57d5c101da14acfcb0","name":"tim","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e5c2b9aca8f9a17918f8497bc9e15440342fabbefbf9ffb071a6b0dc5fb657a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e5c2b9aca8f9a17918f8497bc9e15440342fabbefbf9ffb071a6b0dc5fb657a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e5c2b9aca8f9a17918f8497bc9e15440342fabbefbf9ffb071a6b0dc5fb657a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"tim"},"url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/author\/tim\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}