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Regional Gardening Guide - Zone 3-4

February 1 to February 28-- Discover what you should be doing right now. Our experts share gardening advice, techniques, news, and ideas to make your garden the best ever.

Here’s what’s happening in your gardening region:

• 1.) Planting a vegetable garden this season
• 2.) Guarantee success with your first vegetable garden
• 3.) Learn to start your own plants from seed
• 4.) Start these seeds by the end of February
• 5.) What do you need to be successful with seed-starting?

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Lisa Colburn is a crazy gardener, great cook and author of The Maine Garden Journal.

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1.) Planting a vegetable garden this season.

1. Grow your own food with a little bit of planning.

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  Raised Beds

  If you're planning to a vegetable garden, the best place to plant may not be in the ground. It may be above ground.

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  Container Vegetables

  No place to dig a garden? You can still grow your own food!

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  Sustainable Vegetable Gardening

  Feeling good is part of the harvest.

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2.) Guarantee success with your first vegetable garden.

2. Start with easy to grow plants

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  Salad Greens

  With a mix of distinct, rich flavors and cold-hardy varieties, salad greens make perfect cool-season crops for your garden. Choose from our fast-growing lettuce, increasingly popular microgreens, appe
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  Scallions

  Browse our selection of high yield scallion seeds and other quality vegetable seeds available from Burpee seeds. Scallions, or green onions, are an essential ingredient in many gourmet dishes. Both the stalks and small bulbs are excellent either cooked or eaten raw in salads and dips. Scallion seeds in stock at Burpee.
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  Collection, Summers Essential Herbs

3.) Learn to start your own plants from seed.

3. Starting your own plants from seed is easy and rewarding.

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  Seed Starting Part 1

  Learn the reasons we start certain seeds indoors and why it is so popular.

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  Seed Starting Part 2

  Discover the four critical elements of starting seeds indoors- Water, Temperature, Soil, and Light.

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  Seed Starting Part 3

  In the final installment of our series we show you how to put it all together and get growing!

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4.) Start these seeds by the end of February.

4. Start long-maturing plants from seed by the end of February or the beginning of March.

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  Geraniums

  Depend on annual geraniums for big, vivid color in your beds and containers all summer long. Plant hardy geraniums for long-lasting beauty- as ground covers, front-of-the-border perennials and foliage
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  Impatiens

  Shade-loving impatiens seeds and plants perfect for any home garden. New Guinea, African and Single Flowered Impatiens for shade gardens at Burpee.com.
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  Pansies

  Pansies make bright companion plants and are easy to grow in pots or your kitchen garden. Sow indoors before last frost and in midsummer.

5.) What do you need to be successful with seed-starting?

5. A few basic supplies are all you need to start seeds at home.

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  Grow Kits

  Choose below from our seed starting trays and kits. The best for starting seed indoors.
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  Grow Lights

  Start your entire outdoor garden indoors during those cold winter days. Grow lights provide the proper light for rapid and indoor growth.
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  Heat Mats

  Germinate your seeds and grow seedlings quickly with seedling heat mats.