What to plant in December garden

December can be a surprisingly busy month in the Northern California garden. Work off some of those holiday calories by digging into your planting beds. For example:

▪ Transplant asparagus roots along with seedlings for bok choy, broccoli, kale and leaf lettuce.

▪  Seed directly into garden beds such cool-weather favorites as fava beans, mustard, radicchio and radishes. Also, plant onion sets and garlic.

▪  Start indoors early spring annuals such as aster, calendula, cornflower and cosmos.

▪  Want spring color in a hurry? Seeds for California poppy and echinacea can be planted directly in the soil.

This story was originally published December 1, 2017 at 2:00 PM with the headline "What to plant in December garden."