Planning your garden on paper before the season — 30 minutes that save hours
In short: A garden planned in winter on paper means fewer spacing mistakes, better crop rotation and memory of what grew where. 30 minutes of calm planning saves hours of problems during the season.
Garden planning — why it's worth doing in winter
Winter is time for paper and pencil. Or a spreadsheet. Or an app (modest advertisement: Zielona Manufaktura has a Garden Planner).
What to plan:
- Draw out beds with measurements
- Mark what grew where THIS year — basis for crop rotation
- Plan what will go where next year (3–4 year break for the same family)
- Note down planned varieties and sowing dates
Benefits:
- You don't buy too many or too few seeds
- You don't plant too densely
- You have a history of what grew where
- You know how many seedlings you need
Mistake every beginner makes:
Planning too much. Catalogs are beautiful and tempting. Start with half of what you're planning — you can always plant more.zielnamanufaktura.pl
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