![]() ![]() The best time to buy your seeds is 3 months before you want to plant your garden. You don’t have to settle for boring white cauliflower heads, you can have green, yellow or purple caulifower! There’s beans that taste like butter, tomatoes as sweet as apples and carrots with all the colors of the rainbow. Open up a whole new world of flavor, color and choice. These seeds are hand selected every year by backyard and commercial growers from the crops with the highest yields and best pest and disease resistance in your area. Instead you should try to always get your seeds from an heirloom seed company. So if one farm gets a disease or pest, it’ll quickly spread across the region and your crops will be easy targets. They’ll be more susceptible to pests and diseases, because they’re identical to all the other farmers crops. Planting these seeds will make growing your crops all that much harder. But chances are that these seeds will be hybrid seeds (that you can’t save seeds from for next years crops) or they’ll be the same seeds every grower in your region uses. Of course you could just buy seeds from your local nursery or supermarket. It covers everything from choosing the best plants for seed saving, breeding your own varieties and how to collect, store and germinate your seeds. ![]() If you’re interested in saving your seeds then Seed to Seed is definitely worth a read. However, saving seed can be a little tricky and requires careful timing and a watchful eye to stop accidental crosses. ![]() Saving your own seed is the best option for growing strong and resilient crops with heavy harvests. This is every vegetable gardener’s dream veggie patch. Some crops will take the full season to grow and mature before you can harvest them, but they’ll feed you right through the winter when it’s hard (or impossible) to grow crops outside. You can can, freeze and store these however you like – again we’ve chosen the best crops for long term storage. There’s also a variety of one-time crops that you’ll need to plant and replant throughout the season. For this reason we’ve chosen the crops that store well out of the fridge and will keep through the winter. We’ve included a balanced variety of continuous cropping plants that’ll overflow your pantry every week with fresh produce. The big harvests will quickly overload your fridge and pantry so you might want to consider using a root cellar to store your crops. You’ll even have plenty for canning and preserving too. If you’ve got the time, the space and the resources then this garden will grow plenty of produce for you to share. ![]() You’ll need to have greened your thumbs on some smaller gardeners before attempting this one. You’ll be rewarded not only with barrow-loads of produce each week but everyone you know will be coming and admiring your productive little patch.īe warned though – because this is our most advanced vegetable garden plan. Interested in more garden posts? I have more coming.For the more ambitious gardeners among us this vegetable garden plan will keep you busy all weekend long. I did not include all of the plants listed on the website. If the plant you are looking for is not listed, check out the website above. Planning the Garden-What to Plant Together I also found great info about plants that repel garden bugs. Easy peasy! (Now's the time where my dad pipes in and explains that charts can't really talk. If the chart says red, the plants don't work well together. It's pretty simple: Green means GO, and red means STOP! If the chart says green, the plants work well together. I hope it helps you decide what to plant as well. To keep it all straight, I created this companion planting chart and planned my square foot garden boxes based the chart. I had a really hard time keeping track of the twenty-four different plants I want to include in my garden. I found a fantastic resource at, but I can't link you there because the page no longer exists. Instead of just randomly placing my plants in the garden (which I have done in the past), I decided to find out which plants should and should not go together. SPRING is here (in my neck of the woods), and it's time to get the garden ready! I am on year four of my desert garden adventure, and things just keep getting better! Now that I have learned (through trial and error) what grows well in the desert, I'm ready to focus on what plants help each other in the garden. ![]()
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