If you want to get your vegetable garden off to a fast start, you need to plant your seeds in soil that’s warm enough to ensure good germination.
For each type of seed — beans, carrots, lettuce — there is a range of temperatures at which that particular type of seed will germinate (see the chart above). Beans, for example, will only germinate if the soil temperature is above 60 degrees F and no warmer than 95 degrees F.
