garden planning

Even though there’s a fresh foot of snow on the ground I’m already excited to get back out to my garden and see what I can grow this year. I learned my lesson from last season that it’s important to plan exactly what you’d like to grow and when each of those things need to be planted, so I’ve done just that.

Here’s what I’m looking forward to this season, in the form of a planting schedule (dates follow the Friday of each week based on predicted first and last frost dates):

Feb 14 – plant lettuce, arugula, and pepper seeds indoors

Feb 21 – plan tomato seeds indoors

March 28 – plant bok choi, spinach seedlings

March 28 – April 11 – plant beet seeds and swiss chard seedlings (one plant per week)

March 28 – May 16 – plant lettuce, arugula, seedlings (one plant per week)

April 4 – plant basil seeds indoors

May 2 – plant summer squash and tomato seedlings, final beet seeds

May 16 – plant eggplant, peppers, winter squash, and basil seedlings

July 25 – pull up and replant bok choi and summer squash seedlings, beet seeds

August 8 – pull up and replant spinach, lettuce, arugula seedlings
 

 

And when I’ll be enjoying this food, via harvest schedule:

May 2 – July 11 – harvest lettuce, arugula

May 16 – June 13 – harvest spinach

May 30 – July 11 – harvest bok choi, beets, summer squash

May 16 – frost – harvest swiss chard

July 18 – frost – harvest winter squash, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant

 

And here’s how I plan to lay everything out:

Until then, this is what I'll be looking at...