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Pnw vegetable garden layout1/22/2024 ![]() ![]() The garden planner I use (and sell… ahem.) has 1/4″ grid paper which I print out, then make 1/4-inch to 1-foot scale drawings of my beds. Actually, because of the way my garden has grown into multiple sections, I made three drawings – one for the front beds, one for the back beds and one for the hugelkultur area. I started, as I do every year, by making a drawing of my garden. If you have some seed that’s probably still good but might be losing viability, you can opt to give it one last big planting to finish the pack, or just use it for sprouting or “mixed greens blend” or something where perfect germination isn’t as critical. It’s a good idea to have a list of your seeds in front of you when you decide what you’ll be growing this year. (I was stuck on summer squash this year and, predictably, just over ordered.) Maybe your seed order is already in your hot little hands, maybe you are still trying to decide between different kinds of beets. It’s been months of seed catalogs by now. You’ve already got this figured out, no doubt. So, how did I make this garden plan, and how can you make one too? Well, don’t let the massive blocks of text put you off, its really pretty simple, actually. ![]() You can download a PDF of the whole thing here, or by clicking on the image below. The garden is 100% perfect right now, because it’s 100% imaginary, but I think I’ve got a fair shot at pulling most of this off out in the big, bad, slug-infested real world too. If you want to really know something, teach someone else, right? You what I found tremendously rewarding? Since I codified my year-round planning method into something that I can actually explain to people as a step-by-step process, I’ve found my own planning is made even easier. So, what does this have to do with gardening? Everything! Two sick kids was just the enforced down-time I needed to finalize my 2013 gardening plan. First the girl spent a week coughing her lungs out, then just when she had recovered enough to return to school, the boy spent a night puking all over me. So the past week my kids have taken turns with the sickies.
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