I am trying something different, planting the seeds directly and then protecting the x!@#% out of them. What do you think..... Won't work or may work or bad idea? I'm back after a long time away.

I just started my beds.

Asparagus bed 3x9 ft is peaking through, all seems ok.

I planted bed one with carrots 1" x 2" and have beef stk. seeds planted covered with a plastic lid. I thought I would try this instead of planting them in a container with a lid and slits, over the container is a mini green house. Good experiment or bad idea?

the rest of bed two is cucumber, I planted the seeds then covered it with a tarp for now, my husband is building a green house around the bed out of 3/4" pvc frame and 6 mil clear tarp fitted to the green house. Bed 3 is 3 sisters deal, squash, corn, peas. Bed 4 is 1 row onion sets, 1 watermelon hill, 3 corn rows, and string beans to climb the corn. I covered each of those beds with a black weed blocker tarp that I will take off after this last cold snap and then pvc tarp green house low to the ground kind of like a fancy row cover.