Consider a cold frame. Cold frames and cloches let you put out vegetable seedlings earlier in the season and keep crops producing later in the season. They’re available commercially, but you can also make your own. Hinge the top of a cold frame to allow ventilation. If you want to plant directly in the garden, simply put the cold frame in place and remove the lid when the air temps warms up, replacing it as things cool down.

While you're in the vegetable garden, take out the last of the summer crops, such as tomatoes and tender herbs. (I hope your basil did better than mine this year.) Be sure to remove fallen leaves from beneath the apple trees — especially if your trees suffered from apple scab. Do not compost these leaves. I replace the top inch of soil with fresh compost as an additional precaution to prevent fungal spores from spreading.

Compost. My city offers free compost, and the stuff is black gold; it's lush and rich and easy to work with. Top-dress your garden beds with 1/4 inch of compost to increase fertility and aerate them, which eventually mitigates the need for bad chemical fertilizers. Properly sited native plants also don't need for fertilizers of any kind. Compost is great in raised beds for veggies or whatever needs good drainage. My veggie garden is 100 percent city compost.March can be a great month to work outside — it's not too hot, and ambition tends to fill the body. Get out there and show us what you've got, you wonderful prairie gardeners.More: See how to use a cold frame in the garden

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Consider a cold frame. Cold frames and cloches let you put out vegetable seedlings earlier in the season and keep crops producing later in the season. They’re available commercially, but you can also make your own. Hinge the top of a cold frame to allow ventilation. If you want to plant directly in the garden, simply put the cold frame in place and remove the lid when the air temps warms up, replacing it as things cool down.

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Consider a cold frame. Cold frames and cloches let you put out vegetable seedlings earlier in the season and keep crops producing later in the season. They’re available commercially, but you can also make your own. Hinge the top of a cold frame to allow ventilation. If you want to plant directly in the garden, simply put the cold frame in place and remove the lid when the air temps warms up, replacing it as things cool down.

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Consider a cold frame. Cold frames and cloches let you put out vegetable seedlings earlier in the season and keep crops producing later in the season. They’re available commercially, but you can also make your own. Hinge the top of a cold frame to allow ventilation. If you want to plant directly in the garden, simply put the cold frame in place and remove the lid when the air temps warms up, replacing it as things cool down.

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Consider a cold frame. Cold frames and cloches let you put out vegetable seedlings earlier in the season and keep crops producing later in the season. They’re available commercially, but you can also make your own. Hinge the top of a cold frame to allow ventilation. If you want to plant directly in the garden, simply put the cold frame in place and remove the lid when the air temps warms up, replacing it as things cool down.

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