Beets are perhaps one of the most excellent vegetables ever created. They are delicious no matter how they are cooked and are even better when pickled. Their greens are comparable to chard, but do not require a separate space in the garden. It seems odd that they would have anything in common with something as foul, orange and disgustingly crunchy as carrots. However, seeds of both, as well as radishes and turnips should be sown about now. This includes turnip greens, which lack the distended turnip root, and chard, which are similarly beet greens without the distended beet root.
These seeds should be sown directly into prepared soil in the garden. If seedlings of these vegetables in cell packs or six packs can still be found in nurseries, they are a scam. Six packs cost more than a dollar but only provide six groups of seedlings, which if not separated, provide only a few vegetables. A packet of seed costs about the same, but provides enough seed for several rows of evenly spaced vegetables.
Few cool season vegetables may be purchased as seedlings if preferred. Onions can be purchased in six packs, but then separated and planted individually in rows. Small leaf lettuce should be planted like greens, but if only a 
few ‘head’ lettuce are desired, they may also be acquired as seedlings. However, even if only a few pea vines are desired, they are too easily grown from seed, but too delicate as seedlings to bother with as seedlings.
Cool season vegetables are typically planted repeatedly in small groups every two or three weeks so that those planted later are becoming available as those planted earlier are being depleted. However, in our garden, some of these vegetables are only planted in two phases because we sow the seeds so closely and harvest the vegetables as they become crowded. Each row consequently lasts longer and provides smaller and tenderer vegetables. Likewise, rather than harvesting entire lettuce or greens plants, we pluck young outer foliage, but leave the plants in the ground to continue producing.
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