Hardening Off For Survival

In honor of summer, we’ve been looking at a few life lessonsfrom the garden.

Once you’ve got your seedlings started and the soil prepared (as discussed in previous weeks), it’s still not quite time to put the plants in the ground. Not only do you have to wait for the weather to warm up (especially here in Colorado), but the baby plants need a period of hardening off before they can survive the harsh world.

Young and fragile plants raised in the protected environment of a greenhouse can go into...