What comes in red, yellow, orange, green and black and has 47 varieties?

Hint:

Answer: The number of tomato seed varieties in the White Bear Lake seed library!

Wow! Add to that 26 varieties of beans and 27 varieties of peppers and 17 species of native plants.

Not to mentions many, many other vegetables, herbs and flowers.

This is the perfect time to plan your garden. Don’t be afraid to mix it up a bit by planting vegetables and flowers next to each other. But hold off on starting your tomato seeds, it’s still too early! General recommendations are starting 5-6 weeks before last date of frost, which in Minnesota is mid-April. If you start them earlier they will get too leggy and you won’t have a strong plant. On the other hand, peppers can be started mid-March.

See the University of MN extension recommendations: http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard%2Dgarden/flowers/starting-seeds-indoors/