How to Create a Gardening Plan for More Harvest and Less Stress

Shannon, who lives in the Pacific Northwest, is looking for some gardening tips to take her small, raised-bed garden to the next level. She wants to learn how to feed her family well, growing a year’s worth of food, but not get overwhelmed when it comes time to preserve it all.

Close up photo of a raised garden bed with a stone path around it. Strawberry plants are overflowing the bed.

In today’s podcast, Pioneering Today Episode #289, I’m giving Shannon, a nurse practitioner who lives in the Pacific Northwest, my tips for starting seeds indoors, cool and warm weather planting schedules, garden expansion, watering systems, and an overall game plan for a great garden harvest without the overwhelm or stress.

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We cover a lot of ground in this episode when it comes to Shannon’s garden, including:

how to figure out what to plant in your garden.
deciding how much of each crop to plant for your family.
what crops to plant first in the Spring.
which crops are great for seed starting indoors.
how to organize and preplan to know when to start plants indoors to know you’re transplanting them at the right time for the best health and growth of the plants.
how to avoid ruining your crops with over or under watering with a watering system and a watering schedule.
how to maximize a small space for growing as much as possible during the growing season.
how to take advantage of the multiple growing seasons (spring, summer, and fall).
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Howdy, I’m Melissa!

I’m so glad you’re here. This is the place for all of us who loved Little House when we were young and thought Laura was our best friend. It’s where we grow dinner in the backyard and think everything looks and tastes better when it comes from a Mason jar. Here, you’ll find my favorite from-scratch recipes, herbal remedies and tutorials, and all my gardening tips from my 20+ years of growing and raising our own food.