I am helping to establish a garden program at my son's elementary school. We live in Northern Virginia (last frost date is approx April 10-20). I did tons of checking / research and found so much conflicting information on how early is too early to plant certain things. It is important to us to get some early harvesting before the end of the school year, so planting some early crops is essential to us.

So we put aside the uncertainties and this past week, we started planting the following seeds in 10" high raised beds: radishes, carrots, yukon gold potato tubers, onion sets, leaf lettuce, and peas. Can anyone advise on whether they think these plantings will be successful, or whether we are too early on some of them? If we jumped ahead too early it's not a huge deal, as we can go out and put some more seeds in the ground over the coming weeks. But it would be nice for us (and the kids!) to know what to expect!