Planning now can help you to bigger harvests next year !
The two most important tools any gardener can have to help make a successful garden wo n’t ever be found at your local nursery or garden memory board . In fact , they are completely free and take nothing more than a pen , newspaper , and a little meter to create !
Performing a garden review and create next year ’s garden plan are two of the most valuable tasks you’re able to execute to avail bolster your future garden – and the effective time to do it is now !
Planning now can help you to bigger harvests next year!
footstep 1 .. Complete a Quick Garden Review Now !
“ Those who can not remember the past are condemn to repeat it . ” That oftentimes repeated quote among history buffs also holds true for those of us who garden . take a few moments now to review and jot down the fact and thought of this past year ’s garden can go a long way in get your next one successful .
Our purple light-green bean have about double over the end product of our bush green beans two years in a row – with the same amount of plants – so next class – we are going to go with more purpleness to take up less garden space .
Our purple green beans have nearly doubled the output of our bush green beans two years in a row – with the same amount of plants – so next year – we are going to go with more purple to take up less garden space.
Why ? Because everything is still fresh in your creative thinker from the recent summertime ’s garden . What puzzle out well , and what did n’t . What pests attacked what and when . What you planted too much of- and what could you remain firm to plant a little bit more of . These are all important things to get down on paper to help guide you as you plan and produce your next garden .
lease ’s face it – as clock time passes , so does our memory of this past yr ’s garden . Before you know it – Thanksgiving and Christmas are here , January and February fly by – and all of those great estimate you had back in the gloam get lost in the hurry to just get a garden implant .
So , take a few moments at this time of the year to write down and document your garden . You will be astonied how much those notes come up back to avail next year !
Here is our plan from this past year’s garden.
stair 2 – Create Next Year ’s Garden Plan Now !
Here is our architectural plan from this retiring class ’s garden .
The 2011 Garden plan
The 2011 Garden plan
So now that you have completed your followup – take that next step and plan out next years garden while it ’s all fresh in your mind !
It ’s one thing to say that you would like to essay this or that , spring up more tomato plant or herb , or a unlike variety of Madagascar pepper . But when you seat down and put it all down on newspaper – it ’s awing to find out how much best it all work next spring . Planning now lets you easy remember what performed well – what did n’t – and what you need to try different . It decidedly made all the difference in drive even more out of our own infinite this past year !
It also allows you the opportunity to exercise good gardening habit – like contrive crop gyration . We rotate our planting in garden rows each yr to help keep pests and disease at bay . Our capsicum and Lycopersicon esculentum will move from the top quarrel down to the bottom plane section of raise beds , and our commons , tater and beans to the top . In addition to revolve the sections – we also flip the rows from where we planted them the last fourth dimension they were in these bed – so it becomes 4 years before the same plant goes into the same space . have it all on paper – and knowing what went where is a huge sentence recoverer come next planting season !
Good planning now can help you fill the canning pantry later!
Good planning now can aid you fill the canning pantry later !
The other advantage to planning now – it really keeps you focused on what you want to grow . When you have no architectural plan – it is awesome how quickly you begin to take on an endless provision of seed packet that you will never utilise – or a garden that look more like a wild maze than a veg patch !
And the best part of all … after you do this for a few years – you have produce your own personal garden journal !
So take a few moments now to jot down down your garden revaluation and architectural plan !
See : Our 2013 Garden Plan Here
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Happy Gardening – Jim and Mary !
