The Well Planned Vegetable Garden

Save time, reduce work, and grow more crops with this practical year-round guide to small-farm and garden success Organization is the key to growing success. The Well-Planned Vegetable Garden covers everything you need to know from optimizing your space and selecting seeds and equipment, to sowing, transplanting, maintaining, and harvesting your crops. It's all rounded out by an extensive perpetual garden calendar that will help you manage time and effort while maximizing yield and profit. This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color reference contains: An introduction to the Market Gardener Method — a proven formula for successful, biointensive, small-scale farming suitable for everyone from hobbyists to professionals A comprehensive strategy for success, covering budgeting and financial goals, environmental and climate considerations, year-round growing, crop rotation, timing, spacing, storage, and more Monthly objectives and task summaries to help dial in and streamline garden and farm management, working in harmony with seasonal rhythms. Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener is a collection of practical handbooks designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned farmers with information to grow better, using Jean-Martin Fortier's principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.