Planning and Getting Ready for Garden 2017 by Ed Powers

I live between Conifer and Evergreen at 7600 feet.   I have lived here for more than 5 years with gardening challenges galore.   Last year I built 2- 4 feet by 4 feet raised gardens.   Quite frankly, even at that size I had the best garden I have had up here.   I also grew some tomatoes indoor over the winter that produced the largest best fruit I have ever had gardening.   So moving forward this year, I decided to start my tomatoes, squash and peppers along with several flowers in December/ January in 2017.   I will also start a second crop in February.   My hope is that they will survive to be larger plants in June.   My belief and experience from last year is that this l will produce a better garden.   I also intend on building another raised garden 8x3 feet.   I have started the process by planting seeds I saved from last year since they are all heirlooms.   This will include Russian Black Crim tomatoes (this is the 3 rd season for these seeds so they should adapted somewhat to o