Have A Consistent Harvest Of Your Plants When You Succession Plant
Have you heard of a tip called succession plant? When you first start gardening, reading and hearing about all the garden tips & tricks can be overwhelming. When preparing to plant, it’s important to note how fast your produce will grow and how often you’d like to eat it. Looking to eat carrots all summer- succession planting is what you need!
This method is simple and only takes a little planning. To plant in succession, you will be planting new seeds every 7-21 days. This means you will have a constant supply of your crops all summer! You can either plant the same crop, or a new crop after you harvest – it’s all up to you.
In addition to a consistent harvest, succession planting also saves space in your garden by using the same space to re-plant crops!
Planning Your Succession Garden
First, you will want to know what you are planting, and how much you eat in a week of that vegetable. For example, if you only eat 2-3 radishes a week, you could plant 5 this week, 5 next week, and 5 the week after. Radish only takes about 25 days to mature, so eventually, you will be harvesting and re-planting in the same space! If you notice mid-way through summer that you aren’t eating as much as you planned, you can always skip a week and save the space for something else.
Succession planting is best used for determinate crops – crops that produce their fruits at once. For example, zucchini, cucumber, or melon are indeterminate and will continue to produce fruit from the same plant. You don’t need to succession plant indeterminate plants.
Best Vegetables To Succession Plant
You can also try intercropping with succession planting to help increase harvests!
Interested In More Beginner Garden Tips?
This is the fourth post of a five-part series on Angie’s Recipe Garden. Over the last few weeks, I covered the following topics:
- Planning Your Garden
- Intercropping
- Zones, Frost Date & The Sun Impacts On Your Garden
- Succession Planting
- Seed Packet Information
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Until the next blog in this series, catch up on my recipes or read how intercropping can lead to more produce in your garden.
