Seasonal Planting Guide for Year‑round Harvests
Chosen theme: Seasonal Planting Guide for Year‑round Harvests. Build a garden that never sleeps—learn to plan, plant, and pick in rhythm with the seasons so your kitchen stays vibrant from frosty mornings to blazing midsummer.
Design Your Four‑Season Planting Calendar
Start by confirming your local first and last frost dates using a reliable source for your region or zone. These bookends shape every sowing, transplant, and protection strategy you make for resilient, year‑round production.
Soil Health Through the Seasons
As soil warms and dries, add finished compost on top without over‑tilling. This preserves structure, jump‑starts microbes, and creates a fertile seedbed for early greens, radishes, and transplants that will anchor your first wave of harvests.
Timing: Seed Starting and Transplant Mastery
Schedule indoor sowings backward from your last frost: tomatoes and peppers often need 6–8 weeks, brassicas 4–6, onions even more. Strong, stocky transplants leap ahead outdoors and compress the time to your first harvests.
Feeding, Watering, and Pests Across the Year
Spring: Gentle Nutrition and Vigilant Scouting
Cool soils slow nutrient uptake. Use light, balanced feeds and watch for flea beetles or slugs around brassicas and lettuce. Early attention prevents small problems from snowballing and protects your first precious plantings.
Summer: Deep Water and Steady Feeding
Water deeply but less often to encourage resilient roots. Compost tea or side‑dressing keeps heavy feeders like tomatoes producing. Mulch roots, prune for airflow, and harvest often to signal plants to keep setting fruit.
Autumn: Clean‑Up and Preventive Care
Remove diseased foliage, rotate beds, and sanitize stakes and ties. Tidy beds reduce overwintering pests and give spring seedlings a clean runway. Share your best prevention tip with us, and help another gardener succeed.
