Planning A Vegetable Garden

It's time to start planning your vegetable garden and here's a tip to help make it easy for you.

Use "Post-its" - those small note pads that are sticky. They make it easy and fast.

Here's How:

1. Work on a hard surface - a board or tabletop

2. Decide the scale of your garden - example: 1 inch (2.5 cm) equals 1 foot (.3 m)

3. Each Post-it equals a plot in your garden

4. Write each crop name on a Post-it

5. Simply lift and restick each crop as many times as you want until you're happy with the arrangement

This works very well with succession planting as well because you can simply layer Post-its on top of each other.

For example if you plan to follow an early crop of lettuce with a crop of beans, you can use two Post-its on that plot to show the succession.

Post-its also work really well when figuring out how you want to rotate your crops to keep the soil and plants as healthy as possible.

We'll be getting into that next week and we'll also be giving a four-year plan to show you how to successfully rotate your crops.

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Talk to you next week!