How to plan a vegetable garden, incl. vertical & raised bed square foot garden design, start dates, succession planting, spacing, varieties, shade, perennials, season extenders, herbs & more!
0:00 – Intro
0:38 – Review
3:08 – Goals
6:36 – Survey
9:29 – Growing Season
11:30 – Plug in Crops
16:17 – Choose Varieties
18:16 – Seed Shopping Tips
THINGS I MENTION
• Garden Planner Spreadsheet – https://resprout.com/garden-planner
• Planting Guide PDF – https://resprout.com/planting-guide/
• The Market Gardener – https://resprout.com/go/market-gardener/ [AMAZON]
• High Mowing Seeds – https://resprout.com/go/high-mowing-seeds/
• Little Ruby Fig – https://resprout.com/go/little-ruby-fig-tree/
• Encore Raspberries – https://resprout.com/go/encore-red-raspberries/
• Ozark Beauty Strawberries – https://resprout.com/go/ozark-beauty-strawberries/
• Tavor Artichoke – https://resprout.com/go/tavor-artichoke/
• New Red Fire Lettuce – https://resprout.com/go/new-red-fire-lettuce/
• Giant Winter Spinach – https://resprout.com/go/winter-spinach/
• Evergreen Bunching Onions – https://resprout.com/go/evergreen-bunching-onions/
• Winter Density Lettuce – https://resprout.com/go/winter-density-lettuce/
• New York Early Onion – https://resprout.com/go/new-york-early-onion/
• Early Jalapeño – https://resprout.com/go/early-jalapeno/
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VIDEOS I MENTION
• Raised bed build – https://youtu.be/SAzAovC2fqY
• Broccoli Leaves Harvest – https://youtu.be/qvJ73dFPQlY
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Thanks for watching! Garden like a boss and I’ll see you soon!
18 Comments
What are your garden goals this year? What are your favorite succession combinations? Let us all know! For anyone looking to download the spreadsheet featured in this video, here's the link: https://resprout.com/garden-planner. Enjoy!
Wow. I thought I was a nerd. Clearly I'm just an amateur! Love the functionality of your spreadsheet! I'm off to your website to find a copy of it. Awesome!
I love that you embrace the nerd!
Great video, April. I am moving to a 3 acre property in Florida this year. I plan to plant a lot and to aim at self sufficiency as much as possible. I thought I was a garden nerd but…. I guess I’ll take second. The margarita was already in the mug….
I need to watch that again and take notes. What an amazing video, your spreadsheet is absolutely amazing!
OH MY GOODNESS!! I THOUGHT ABOUT MESSAGING YOU! IT'S SO NICE TO SEE YOU! You are so informative, kind of a rebel breaking the gardening rules for
My goals are to make lots of vegetable broth at the end of the gardening season, to try dehydrating eggplants instead of pickling them, and to experiment with growing tomatoes in grow bags so they don't block the sprinklers in my garden. Thanks for the awesome video, April!
wonderful video. thanks for sharing. OBTW, I sub'ed to your newsletter but never received a coupon code for the planner- got an error instead.
Hey April I signed up for your news letter so that I can get the spread sheet. I did not get the link for the coupon code email. I also looked in my junk mail. Idk if you can email me the coupon code physically. Question did anyone else have this issue or maybe it's just me. 🤷♀️🤷🏻♀️
Hi April your channel and garden beds excite me! Haha can you show your cleanup and how you refresh the soil each year with all those beds? Also how you combat pests like aphids with all that beet greens and lettuce being grown so nice and close together? I also signed up for the garden planter and link to excel sheet but didn’t get the coupon code or anything like another poster. I would love to see your excel sheet especially with your filled out info like your start dates and such and not completely blank if possible since your soil workable and last frost date is quite similar to mine and I have trouble with that part. Oh please! Thanks so much for you vid! My email has happi in it.
Love it April! I’m putting in my first fruit and nut guild this year – peach, plum, quince, and hazelnut. Fingers crossed. South Shore of Long Island. So far peach is doing great. Other trees are just planted so we will see. Also have currants, gooseberries, raspberries and blueberries.
I’ve been watching lots of videos on gardening recently, since last year at the end of august my family moved to a new house! We finally have lots of room for a garden!!! Me and my dad have already started preparing the yard and getting seeds to start planting within the next week or so. I’m very excited to be able to get started and see what kind of stuff we are able to grow 😀
Is great to see that more people uses excel for gardening, I even added dynamic charts! 😂 so happy that you are much better this year.
nice 👍
I had hernia surgery July 2nd of last year and my hernias were worse the first thought I was down for 6 weeks due to i. then 3 weeks after I am finally able to get back to normal I caught COVID and that put me down for about 3 weeks so my summer garden ended in shambles and my fall/ over winter garden didn't happen. I have come back swinging this year
OOH that spreadsheet makes my data loving heart happy!!! You are amazing for sharing that at no cost!
Subtropical Queensland Au. Just sorted out all my seeds. And as a beginner I'm just going to plant what I have for August end of winter). Love yr channel by the way..
I’m hoping to be a first time gardener 😬. I want to be able to feed my family good organic foods and also teach my Grandaughter about gardening and spend lots of time with her 🥰