Step by step – to the vegetable growing plan

Organising your growing areas: sketch, sub-areas and calendar

Creating a sustainable growing plan takes time, because there are many things to keep an eye on. So your effort doesn’t end in frustration, it’s important to keep an overview with good organization.

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Your growing areas

Many start motivated – and then lose track: What was planned when? Where was which crop? What needs to be done this week? In this chapter, you bring order to your growing plan: you structure growing areas and sub-areas, draw a sketch, and build a calendar plus to-do list from it. This turns many individual ideas into a clear flow that carries you through the garden year.

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1. Plan growing areas and sub-areas to be relatively the same size.

Relatively similarly sized growing areas and sub-areas are very practical because they later allow evenly high yields when the growing plan rotates annually and the plants have to change location.

2. Draw a sketch of your growing areas.

The existing growing areas, as well as the ones you still want to create, need a name or at least a clear identifier such as a numbering.

Maybe your growing areas are very large - so large that the expected harvest is simply too abundant. Or maybe you only have these 3 growing areas available. Either way, the goal is to create plannable growing areas or groups. You achieve this by having a growing area consist of 3 to 6 sub-areas or your group contain 3 to 6 growing areas and/or sub-areas. You’ll learn why in the next chapter - 5. Crop rotations and planting breaks.

Raised beds by the hedge

If your needs are not yet met and there is still space available - just keep planning in the same way. One growing area consists of 3 to 6 sub-areas, or a group of growing areas consists of 3 to 6 growing areas and/or sub-areas.

Beds by the garden shed

3. Don’t forget.

Create your sketches carefully and keep them in a safe place. The sketches are also part of the basis for your growing plan.

Your calendar

A well-structured calendar is essential to keep an overview. You’ll later use it to plan pre-growing and sowing clearly and avoid missing important dates. Tip: color coding (e.g. green for pre-growing, blue for sowing) helps you quickly spot the most important tasks.

To create the clearest possible calendar, it’s best to use the sketch of the growing areas as a copy and add the month. Print it out for each month and set it aside for now; we’ll need it in the next chapters.

In addition, we also need a nice list. A to-do list.

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TO-DO list

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