Here is our hot take on what to do in the garden this week.

First, enjoy the beautiful weather. More rain and cold is predicted for later in the week, so hopefully you can find a minute or two to just bask in the sun while watching your garden come to life. The bees are starting to buzz, the early bulbs are putting on a show, and many perennials are popping through the earth and heading towards the light. Photosynthesis is a wonder.

If you have not done so yet, it is time to plant onions. Our packs of onions have about 100 plants in them. Pull them apart, gently and when fully watered. Plant them individually, 4 inches apart, 2 to 3 inches deep. It is ok to cut off the tops of the plants so that they are not too floppy.

Also, it is time to plant some salad greens, cooking greens, broccoli, fennel, and more. All of the 4-pack vegetables we are offering are cold tolerant and ready to plant. We encourage multiple generations, so just a few each week, and not all at once. Spread the planting out and you will have a well timed harvest.

From seed, it is time to sow radishes, carrots, beets, lettuce for cutting at the baby stage (if you prefer full heads, we recommend transplanting seedlings), spinach, arugula, mustard greens. Peas too if you have not already done so.

Herbs that can be planted now: mint, parsley, cilantro, dill, chives. Herbs to do from seed now: dill, cilantro.

Flowers that can be planted now: pansies, violas, nemesia, snapdragons, argyranthemum, osteospermum, alyssum, and lobularia.

Flowers that can be started from seed now calendula, snapdragons.