Planting seeds and potatoes in early spring.

Good morning folks! I like to find out if it's the time to plant potatoes and stuff like greens, carrots and stuff this early spring despite colder conditions and shallow frost. Could greens and carrots germinate in April? What about beets, rutabagas and so fourth? After we plant our potatoes in the ground, should we mulch them? I wanna get a head start on this stuff to get higher results. And is it better to plant onions and stuff from our greenhouses or plant straight into the ground? Please let me know in this box. Have a good day!

Blake, are you in Illinois? I thought so.
If so now is a good time to start some veggies. I have lettuce already growing from seeds. Carrots, radishes, beets, onions, arugula can also be started now in N Illinois. Potatoes can be planted now but will be slow to grow until it warms up a bit more.

What's happening! I am from Chicago where it's still a little more cold right now. I'm looking for more ways to boost the matration process of the onions, cabbage, kale, carrots, beets and rutabagas and want them at their absolute best come harvest time. I have an Irish onion which will be large and a kale which will have large leaves and yellow flowers. Could we do the same thing with mustard, okra, spinach and wheat such as oats which I have right now to gain instant results?

Starting from seed indoor would work for now.

I am in sunny Texas and it still too early to plant outdoors.  What trees have started budding out in your part of the world?

Blake, in my garden just north of you radishes and arugula are already sprouting from seed that overwintered in the ground. I gambled on our warm March weather and also planted parsnips, celery, peas, and salad greens. Only the salad greens sprouted, and then birds ate them.

From my past records, looks like mid-April is usually fine for planting lettuce, peas, turnips, radishes.