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Designing your own planting calendar

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This document provides guidance on designing a personalized planting calendar. It explains that a planting calendar outlines what can be grown each month and provides sowing and transplanting times. It recommends creating a multi-purpose calendar that includes companions, harvest times, and cultural notes for each plant. The document also suggests evaluating multiple resources and recording personal results to develop a calendar tailored to one's specific location.

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Designing your own planting calendar
The purpose The purpose of having a planting calendar is to provide you with information which highlights what will grow in each month of the year in your locality. Using this guide you can plan when to sow your seed or plant transplants to achieve an effective companion planting regime and a successional harvest for the entire year.
Single purpose guides You can restrict it to 1 type of information like seed sowing or transplanting times Celery Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec S S T T S = plant in seed trays T = plant as transplants
But most calendars are multipurpose Plant name Beneficial Seed sowing Harvest date, Spacing Plant observations, cultural hints or special companions dates. Months time from ,based on size points of interest of the year in planting till of plant at which the plant eating maturity can be grown(by initial) You must determine what information is important to you and the format that you would like to collect it in.
There are many resources on the web Information for http://www.gardengro developing your w.co.nz/ calendar can be gleaned http://www.palmers.co. from websites such as nz/gardening_calendar/ those listed here july.cfm http://www.tuigarden.c The information o.nz/sites/default/files/ provided is for broad document/Tui_Planting areas not specific _Calendar.pdf locations.
Critically evaluate all information Compare across websites to see if information matches Ask at your local garden centre Talk to local garden experts Try different things and record the results.
Another option is to keep a diary or plant information journal Plant name Best month for planting Harvest time after planting Propagation notes Companions Culinary information Other uses Check out http://www.gardenate.com /plant/Basil For a great example
Start small and add information as you gain experience. Learn to be an observer Love what you do, in all seasons. Every remember your garden single day, your garden is an extension of you. has something new and All gardens are a form wonderful to show of autobiography. -- you. --author unknown Robert Dash Learn patience Quotes from Gardening is the http://www.perennialreso slowest of the urce.com/quotations/ performing arts. -- Author Unknown
May your planning result in a bounteous harvest.

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Designing your own planting calendar

  • 1. Designing your own planting calendar
  • 2. The purpose The purpose of having a planting calendar is to provide you with information which highlights what will grow in each month of the year in your locality. Using this guide you can plan when to sow your seed or plant transplants to achieve an effective companion planting regime and a successional harvest for the entire year.
  • 3. Single purpose guides You can restrict it to 1 type of information like seed sowing or transplanting times Celery Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec S S T T S = plant in seed trays T = plant as transplants
  • 4. But most calendars are multipurpose Plant name Beneficial Seed sowing Harvest date, Spacing Plant observations, cultural hints or special companions dates. Months time from ,based on size points of interest of the year in planting till of plant at which the plant eating maturity can be grown(by initial) You must determine what information is important to you and the format that you would like to collect it in.
  • 5. There are many resources on the web Information for http://www.gardengro developing your w.co.nz/ calendar can be gleaned http://www.palmers.co. from websites such as nz/gardening_calendar/ those listed here july.cfm http://www.tuigarden.c The information o.nz/sites/default/files/ provided is for broad document/Tui_Planting areas not specific _Calendar.pdf locations.
  • 6. Critically evaluate all information Compare across websites to see if information matches Ask at your local garden centre Talk to local garden experts Try different things and record the results.
  • 7. Another option is to keep a diary or plant information journal Plant name Best month for planting Harvest time after planting Propagation notes Companions Culinary information Other uses Check out http://www.gardenate.com /plant/Basil For a great example
  • 8. Start small and add information as you gain experience. Learn to be an observer Love what you do, in all seasons. Every remember your garden single day, your garden is an extension of you. has something new and All gardens are a form wonderful to show of autobiography. -- you. --author unknown Robert Dash Learn patience Quotes from Gardening is the http://www.perennialreso slowest of the urce.com/quotations/ performing arts. -- Author Unknown
  • 9. May your planning result in a bounteous harvest.