A Plan

I think my biggest failure with my garden is a failure to plan. Which is odd as I like planning, making lists and knowing exactly what needs to be done.

My goal for 2017 is to plan week by week a planting / harvesting schedule.

So here goes

My plot is 11 3' x 16' beds, 4 5' x 5' squares and a 9 small beds thrown in for herbs and small crops.  Sorry for the horrible picture, I have lost my beautiful CAD map.  The site gets excellent sun, shaded in late afternoon only in the height of summer.

The attractive brown area is the orchard, its since been seeded with grass and irrigation added. my poor trees are doing much better since.

Winter crops - February and March 

Hardy salad greens, spinach, kale, broccoli, cabbages, leeks, peas, snow peas, beets, turnips, carrots, radishes  

Spring Crops -  April and May 

Onions, leeks, salad greens, spinach,  broccoli, cabbages, potatoes, radishes, celery 

Summer - June - September 

Peppers - King of the North, Alma Paprika, sweet potatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, zucchini, butternuts, acorn squash, pumpkins, tomatoes - roma, cherry and slicing, garlic, potatoes 

Fall -  Sept - November

Cabbages, broccoli, kale, lettuces, spinach, potatoes, radishes, peas 

for overwintering 

Baby leeks, spinach, hardy lettuces and baby kale, baby cabbages, potatoes

So its a sort of plan I guess lol 

I am going to enter it all into a calendar I think, and note a plan for each bed with a plant date.  One of my very favorite things about gardening is the prospect of next year, its always so full of hope and promise, even though I will probably plant 5 times as many things as we will actually eat. 

loves to all of you 

Linda 

It's been a while

Well I had a baby. End. ;) I did manage to have a fairly productive garden this year, although the onions and peppers were almost a total loss and the tomatoes didn't fair very well.

I am doing a seed trial though, we have had a very warm October, and so far November has been the same. Days in the mid 60's, low 70's and dry.

I direct sowed a bunch of seeds, mostly lettuces, kale, spinach, peas, broccoli, tuscan kale, raddicho, turnips and beets. A lot of these seeds were a few years old and I figured if they all die it's not much lost.  I mulched them heavily with leaves and grass clippings (all shredded by the lawn mower) and watered them in.

Next year I'm going to try this around the end of August / September, once I harvest all my onions and garlic they should be able to go in that bed. If it gets cold earlier I'll cover them with fleece (not plastic ) for those chilly nights, I think plastic gets too hot during the days, especially for lettuce.


Happy fall and looking forward to a nice rest this winter! until January lol ;)