The Best Way to Insulate Your Soil Now so You Can Plant Earlier in the Spring
by Amanda Blum from Lifehacker on (#6FR5A)

Come late winter in my garden, I'm like an Olympic swimmer hanging over the starting block: I have ordered the seeds, plotted the beds, started the starts, and I'm waiting eagerly to plant all the things. Unfortunately, the gardener's starting-the weather-is often uncooperative, and I spend a month or two in limbo,...