Is garden planning really necessary? When can you “wing it” in the garden and when do you need to plan your garden, both the structure and the plants? Gardener Scott discusses how and when he plans his garden development and planting. (Video #557)
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17 Comments
Big pimpin! Spendin cheese!
Plan: Eat food in the future.
The way you garden, is exactly the way I garden! And that’s what makes it fun 😊
I plan 99% of my garden.
Thanks for the hail cloth information!
I prepare a detailed plan and fully expect to abandon it and wing it. But the planning process always helps anyway.
Plan to Plant
I have had access to my current gardening space for four seasons. I have gradually added to it, tweaked it, and built it. I plan bed by bed, making sure I have room for everything I want to grow. Having the addition of a greenhouse since last year has greatly added to the versatility of what I can grow. Norway zone 4.
I plan and then forget my plan. I've even taken graph paper and drew out my garden but that was before my garden shrank to 1000 sq feet. I do plan perennials, I have so little space that I have to. I'm mostly growing in greenstalk towers these days, so I do have to think about what goes in the smaller pockets and what goes in the big ones.
Thank you for another great video.
An Eglu for a couple chickens would still fit nicely…
As an ex-project manager, most plans should be a “living document” updating based on needs and reality. Gardens are definitely living 🙂 An unchangeable plan is almost asking for trouble when reality breaks it. On the other side, as the (UK?) military says Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance (6Ps) 😀 PS – I’ve recently found QGIS useful for planning larger areas. A bit fiddly, but great once you get used to. Much better than Google Earth etc.
When I moved into my current house I was very inexperienced in gardening and my native soil was very sandy, acidic, and poor in nutrients. For many years I had no raised beds or other constructs in my yard. At the start of the season I'd have several yards of compost delivered and dumped into my yard, and I formed it into essentially no-dig vegetable beds (I didn't know no-dig was a thing until recently, I just thought I was being clever and lazy). I'd plant in them for a season, learn about the growth habits of the plants, enjoy some harvests and reap some educational experiences. At the end of the season, I'd clear these beds and broadcast the spent compost all over the yard. Over a period of years this improved my native soil quite nicely, and it let me experiment with bed locations, learn about the sun exposure all around the yard, and basically let me build some gardening experience. Those years let me develop a vegetable garden plan with fixed raised beds in a sunny part of my yard that is located such that it is easy to interact with it daily, even when I am working, and to develop some perennial herb and flower beds around the house. It gets better every year.
I see it, buy it then find a place to plant it. My ideas change all the time. I am not a planner, but a doer! I try to put color combinations that work well together. together. Nit that is as far as I go. I made some garden beds and a small raised bed area.
My small 30 x 30ft garden evolves. As time has passed the borders have become wider and the lawn smaller. A patio now has a small cedar garden room on it, and as plants die new ones, different ones, take their place.
Completely agree, an initial plan can save a lot of headaches, lol.
When I started my garden, I too had a basic overall plan. Over the years, made adjustments plus additions, and just when I thought everything was fine and dandy, this winter decided to make a few changes before planting season. It's all good though, making better use of my limited space.
When it comes to planting, some things are set in stone, but a lot goes where ever I feel at the time. I can get away with that because I understand how the sunlight plays on my garden space, I can make some things just a bit different from year to year.
You have such an awesome garden, Stay Well !!!!
With my mild winters I never know what state a bed will be in when I want to plant spring crops. Many crops overwinter. It's very different without a full winter die off and reset, and I've just had to embrace the chaos.