Urban Farmer has some calculators that you can use to determine what dates to plant based on your last frost date in the spring. You may look up your average frost dates for spring and fall here.
My eBook, The Art of Gardening: Building Your Soil has a growing guide at the end of the book and separates the plants into cool weather and hot weather, depending on each plant’s needs. The date to plant outdoors depends on whether your vegetable likes cool weather or prefers heat. Seeds are generally started 6 – 8 weeks before your last frost date. The “Date to start seeds indoors” and “Date to sow or transplant” on the spreadsheet are based on the last average frost date for my area which is May 20. It also includes some valuable information like ideal soil temperature for seeds to germinate, time to plant outdoors, and distance apart to plant your vegetables.
SEED SAVERS GARDEN PLANNER PDF
Vegetable Seed Planting Guide – This pdf contains information on which vegetable plants should be sown directly into the garden, if your seed packet doesn’t give you that information.
SEED SAVERS GARDEN PLANNER HOW TO
My post How to Read a Seed Packet has lots of information on what you need to know about seeds. In general, your seed packet will give you much of the information you need to know, especially whether the seed should be direct sown or whether you need to start your seeds indoors and transplant to the garden at a later date. Then you could just photocopy the information from last year for your garden journal. If you prefer to do this by hand, you may have to re-create the information each year, unless there are no changes. Most of the information on the sheet will be similar from year to year, but changes will be so easy to make. Step 2 Create a Spreadsheetįor this step, I highly recommend creating a spreadsheet that you can save to your computer. My post on choosing the best spot for your garden will help. If this is your first time starting a garden, you will want to choose a spot with full sun. If your garden is small, or is all in one area, just one sheet may work. So, I use 5 sheets of graph paper to map my garden.
Our property is just a quarter acre, but we have garden in several different areas. Having them all drawn out on a map makes garden organization easy from year to year.
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