What should I plant?
- Where should I locate my garden?
- What size should I make my soil-beds?
- How should I arrange my soil-beds?
- What should I plant?
- When should I plant?
- What tools will I need?
- How much time will it take?
To decide what and how much you should plant, ask yourself:
Learn More
- Growing Crops Vertically
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- The Mittleider Gardening Course (pp. 12-14)
- Let's Grow Tomatoes (pp. 64-69)
- Soil-Bed Yields & Costs
- Grow-Bed Gardening (pp. 15-18)
- Growing Tomatoes
- Let's Grow Tomatoes
- What will my family eat?
- How much will my family eat?
- How much can I comfortably care for?
Plant only what your family will consume and what you can take care of. To see a sample garden plan for a family of four, click on Sample Garden Plan.
To help plan your garden, click on Yields for Common Garden Crops. This table will help you decide what and how much to plant in your garden to meet your family's needs.
As you decide what and how much you will plant, you may need to modify how you arrange your soil-beds in your garden plot plan.
Tips
Place short plants south of tall varieties. In this way, the shadows from tall plants will not interfere with the light needed by short plants.
Garden Genius
Click on Planting Plan and enter the names of the crops you are going to plant in each soil-bed and how many plants you will need to plant in each bed. Refer to and modify your Garden Plot Plan as necessary.
For greater convenience and gardening pleasure, this process has been automated with The Garden Wizard.
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Tip of the Day
It's Spring Planting Time! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, March and early April are the time you need to be preparing your soil and planting the hardy vegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.
The freeze/thaw cycles of winter have broken up and loosened most soils, so as soon as it's not muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly this early gives you the upper hand, and is very important.
If you grew a Mittleider garden last year, your beds will be easy to re-make. Just apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area, then till them in, place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.
Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!
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