Start Your Spring Garden with Easy Veggies and Cover Crops

Can’t wait for the weather to warm up? These top spring gardening tips will kickstart your season with easy veggies, smart pairings, and cover crops that feed your soil as they grow.

Dan Potts

April 6, 2025

Can’t wait for the weather to warm up? These top spring gardening tips will kickstart your season with easy veggies, smart pairings, and cover crops that feed your soil as they grow.

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Dan Potts

Dan grew up in SLC, attending West High School, followed by a BS from USU and an MS from Auburn University, where he focused on wildlife management and aquatic ecology. Largely due to his many nature-oriented hobbies, he is a longtime volunteer nature activist and officer of the 100-year-old Salt Lake Fish and Game Foundation. Dan retired more than 40 years ago after returning from the Peace Corps, devoting himself to promoting Utah’s hunting, fishing, and other renewable and watchable natural resources. Dan volunteers on a variety of local neighborhood and nature boards. Through his activism and teaching a variety of classes, he has advocated greener approaches to living on Earth. In addition to Utah Stories, Dan has written many how-to and human-interest articles over the years for other local newspapers and magazines. Dan really appreciates working with Utah Stories to “round out” its many great articles.