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Smart Garden Planning for Spring
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(14 ratings)
95 students

Smart Garden Planning for Spring

Create a Simple Plan for a Garden Season
Created byMegan Cain
Last updated 12/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Designing Your Smart Garden: reflection exercises and worksheets, clarifying your garden vision for this season, how to decide what to grow
  • Veggie Essentials: learn the different characteristics of vegetables so you can strategically choose which to grow.
  • Seeds & Plants Simplified: when to plant a seed or a plant, different kinds of seeds explained, choosing the best varieties for your garden, recommendations for
  • Simple Recordkeeping: how keeping records makes you a better gardener, why and how to create a garden map and binder, and tips for planning your garden on paper

Course content

4 sections20 lectures1h 23m total length
  • Why You Need a Garden Plan1:48

    The most successful gardeners are those who come up with a simple plan for the season. Here's what we'll be covering in the next few videos. You can also download the full digital copy of my book, Smart Start Garden Planner, here.

  • Garden Reflection1:58

    Before you jump into planning this year's garden, take a step back and think about your successes from last season and what you'd like to do differently this year.

  • Your Garden & Life Vision for This Year2:12

    It's time to zoom out and look at the bigger picture of how your garden fits into your life.

  • Choosing What You Want to Grow in Your Garden This Season1:32

    Now it's time to dive in and take a look at your grocery shopping, cooking, and eating habits so you can decide what you want to grow in your garden this season.

  • It's Time to Order Your Seed Catalogs1:39

    If you don't currently get colorful seed catalogs in the mail you're really missing out! Here are my three favorite.

Requirements

  • Have some experience with gardening.

Description

Grow more vegetables than ever in your garden this season!

Your garden should add to your life by bringing you more of the things that breathe color into your days—things like food, beauty, health, pleasure, and joy.  And less of the things that bring you stress, like weeds, pests, and failing vegetable plants.

The most successful gardeners take some time before the garden season begins to devise a simple and smart plan for the year.  A smart garden plan lays the groundwork for a beautiful garden that yields lots of food for the least amount of time and money invested.

Smart Garden Planning for Spring is a fresh and simple approach to planning your garden. This video series keeps planning practical, down-to-earth, and fun!

You’ll work through your plan step-by-step, and at the end you’ll have a personalized blueprint for what a successful season in your garden looks like.

Your garden dreams really can come true…you just have to plan for them!

This class is for you if:

  • You care about getting real results for your gardening efforts.

  • You’re not interested in bumbling your way through the process, wasting money and time as you go.

  • You love the idea of having a successful garden that feeds healthy food to you and your family.

  • You’re incredibly busy with work, school, kids, family, cooking, and household chores and don’t have endless hours to devote to gardening.

  • You’re looking for a fresh and simple approach to garden planning that you can use over and over again each year.

  • You’re looking for encouragement and inspiration to try new vegetables and new ideas.

What you'll learn:

Includes a digital copy of my book, Smart Start Garden Planner: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Successful Season

Designing Your Smart Garden: exercises and worksheets to help you reflect on last year’s garden and clarify your garden vision for this season, important questions to ask yourself before deciding what to grow.

Veggie Essentials: learn the different characteristics of vegetables so you can strategically choose which to grow – find out in which season you get a harvest, how much food you can expect to harvest from each plant, how much space the plants take up, and how many days until you’ll start harvesting food.

Seeds & Plants Simplified: know when to plant a seed or a plant, different kinds of seeds explained, how to choose the best varieties for your garden, recommendations for unique and colorful varieties, how to plant for beauty with flowers, and the best places and times to buy plants.

When & How to Plant Your Garden:  create a personalized spring planting calendar so you know exactly when to plant each vegetable

Simple Recordkeeping: how keeping records makes you a better gardener, why and how to create a garden map and binder, and tips for planning out your garden on paper.

This series will set you up for success by helping you stay focused on planning your garden so that you’re more organized, intentional, and inspired heading into the new season! 

Who this course is for:

  • Gardeners who'd like to get more food from their garden this season.