Garden Planning Archives - Page 3 of 3 - Grow a Good Life

Taking the effort to clean up the vegetable garden beds in fall makes it very easy to begin growing the following spring. Tips to do before the snow flies.

7 Tips to Prepare Your Vegetable Garden for Winter

Asian greens ready to transplant to the garden.

Succession Planting Tips to Maximize Your Harvest

young pepper and tomato seedlings on a table outside in the shade

How to Harden Off Seedlings

photo if a crate with onions, potatoes, squash, and carrots

9 Crops to Grow for Food Storage

Close up of a basket of salsa ingredients.

How to Grow a Salsa Garden

overhead image of a seed starting schedule

Planning Your Vegetable Garden: Seed Starting Schedule

image of a raised bed vegetable garden

Planning Your Vegetable Garden: Mapping the Garden Beds

seed packages in a flower pot

Tips for Buying Seeds for Your Vegetable Garden

Seed potatoes are not seeds but small potato tubers. When you plant seed potatoes, you are planting a potato produced by the plant the previous year. Any diseases or insects that the mother plant may have had are carried over in the seed potato. Sourcing certified seed potatoes ensures that you are starting with disease free potatoes.

Sourcing Seed Potatoes for the Backyard Garden

If you are just starting a garden or want to expand your growing space, the Square Foot Gardening method is worth considering. The beds are easy to build with no digging or tilling required. Read on for 10 benefits of square foot gardening.

10 Benefits of a Square Foot Garden

Planting potatoes the Grow Biointensive way involves double-dug beds, feeding the soil with compost, and planting closely to conserve spacing and create a microclimate.

Planting Potatoes the Grow Biointensive Way

8 tomato plants growing in 4 blue homemade self-watering containers.

Build Your Own Self Watering Containers