Starting Your Own Organic Garden
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by Jack Algiere, Four Season Farmer

Know your climate
This will help with choosing crops as well as knowing when and how most effectively to plant. The productive season can be greatly expanded just by planting at the right times. This may take practice and will certainly vary a bit from year to year but early and late plantings as well as multiple seasonal plantings can provide extension without the use of frost protection.