I love garden planning, it’s one of my favorite aspects of gardening.
The anticipation of planting your garden for the season is wonderful.
This garden planning guide is full of the best garden planning articles + FREE printables from this site.
From figuring out what to grow, to creating a sowing schedule to learning how to sow your seeds. I’ll also share with you ways to increase your garden yields and how to get the most from your growing space.
Before I share these 60+ garden planning tips I want to mention that I also offer some great garden planning eBooks and a garden planner.
Let’s do some garden planning!
Seeds + Seed Starting
- Best seed companies
- How to order from seed catalogs
- Take inventory of your seeds with a seed inventory spreadsheet
- When to plant seeds
- Seed starting basics
- Seed starting problems
- Thinning out your seedlings (and why you should)
Gardening Planning
- How much to plant?
- Printable garden planner
- Garden Planning in 5 Easy Steps
- Using an app for garden planning
- Free garden planner (free printable)
- Using a Vegetable garden planner
- Crop rotation + plant families
- Keeping a garden journal (free printable)
- Create a planting schedule for sowing and transplanting
- Succession sowing for spread out harvests
- Prevent plants from bolting
Beginner Gardening
- How to start a food garden
- 10 beginner gardening tips
- Beginner gardening mistakes to avoid
- Vegetable gardening for beginners
- Companion planting flowers and herbs
- What plant needs pollinators to produce harvests?
- Veggie garden companion planting examples
Increasing yields
- Year-round vegetable garden guide
- Grow enough food to feed a family
- Modern Victory Gardening
- Succession Sowing for Optimal Harvests
- Interplanting
- Pre & Post Crops
- Triple Your Harvest of Fresh Greens
- Maximize your Food Garden
- Month-to-Month Homesteading to do Lists
- Designing for Large-Scale Food Production
Garden Design
- Raised vegetable garden beds
- Lean to greenhouses
- Raised rock garden beds
- How to build a herb spiral
- Garden design ideas
- Polyculture Gardening
- Backyard permaculture design
- Permaculture gardening for more yields and less work
- 3 sisters guild: growing corn, beans, and squash together
- Walipini: a greenhouse that is built into the ground to extend growing seasons
Herb + Flower Gardening
- How to plant a kitchen herb garden
- Planting a medicinal herb garden
- How to learn herbalism
- Indoor herb starter kits
- Container herb gardening
- Spring flowers to plant
- Growing wildflowers
Indoor Garden
- Growing sprouts with sprout makers
- Growing indoor microgreens for an easy superfood
- Growing lettuce indoors
- Indoor garden ideas
- Cool and Unique ways to grow food anywhere
Greenhouses
- Indoor greenhouses with lights
- Mini portable greenhouses
- Mini and small greenhouse kits
- Solariums and lean to greenhouses
- Gardening in the unheated winter greenhouse
- Polytunnel greenhouse over raised garden beds
- Grow Food Year-Round in a Greenhouse
- Walipini greenhouse which is an underground greenhouse
Season extending + winter gardening
- Grow Food 365 Days a Year
- How to Plant your Fall & Winter Garden
- Ultimate Guide to Fall + Winter Gardening
- Growing a 3 Season Garden
- Crops that can Handle Frosts & Snow
- Overwintering Crops for Zone 5
- Winter unheated greenhouse gardening
