How to Plan Your Perfect Garden in 2024

Planning makes perfect! Whether you’re hoping to start your first garden or tweak an existing one, taking the time to properly plan it out will pay tasty dividends later on.

Ben gets our creative juices flowing with a back-to-basics look at vegetable garden planning, including practical considerations behind positioning a new garden, and how and where to locate crops within it. Get your garden off to a flying start this growing season!

Want to set up raised beds like Ben's. Check out this video:

Planning a bigger plot? You might find this video helpful:

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[bartcop]

Every time I watch your videos I get excited about gardening. You do a great job. Thanks for doing these.

[BecomingVT]

Your videos make a novice gardener feel like anything is possible. Thank you! Looking forward to planning and planting my 2024 garden!!

[judifarrington]

For hand tools and gloves, I found a mailbox in the garden is perfect! I attached mine to my compost bins. They keep your tools handy and dry.

[oceansoul]

This is such a perfect welcoming in for 2024, and you admiring yourself in the trowel is laugh-out-loud funny. I love it. And what a magical thing to bring the garden planner into the beds. I'm overwhelmed by planning my garden already. Thank you for giving all of us the incentive to get to it!

[katrinagarland]

Just love how you used the picture add-ons of the vegies... really helps to envision what is going on. Good job!

[dvanuitert]

My husband and I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your passion with us! Happy Growing!

[ameliag]

I would LOVE to see an in-depth video covering varieties of popular crops and what resources to use to help decide what fits best in your garden, I love how you explain things and it would be helpful

[halflingactual]

This is our 2nd official year planting a garden. Definitely learned what grows well here in Wyo. We're planning on adding more things like blueberries and lots of medicinal herbs. And also adding chickens! 2024 is gonna be a good year for our garden. Happy growing everyone

[siraspark]

I just wanted to come say your planner is a lifesaver. I've been using it since 2021 and there's nothing better. From the specific location able to detect your closest weather recording center for your first and last frost to the options for both spring and fall varieties. It's pure genius and a work of love. Thank you so much :)

[suepowlesland]

I loved the garden planner graphics "magically" appearing on the beds! This year I'm trying dwarf sunflowers among my pepper plants to help prevent sunscald and putting a zucchini in the corner of my tomato bed just like you are so it can trail down onto my path. Love your fluffy wood shavings too😊

[michaelo]

The most important tool for me in preparation for the upcoming year is a piece of paper with a plan of what I am going to plant where, plus succession planting for the later part of the season.

I take my time, come back and often refine my plan, but by the time spring comes, I am all set.

[lucybarnard]

Another excellent video really helpful thanks xx

[kitdubhran]

Perennial sunflower for a friend who recently passed. Currants, and sea kale, and strawberries, and a new hosta. Taking out the grass that the locals keep complaining about being too tall. Replacing it with tall, decorative grasses (spite-scaping). Gonna take all of our autumn pumpkins and gourds and bury the remnants along a sunny stretch of our yard to see what wants to volunteer.

[liddysamps]

Thank you for this, really helpful info on the companion planting! This year I am attempting cauliflower, brassicas have scared me but I'm going for it!

[mpt]

Many thanks to Ben and his family for all the fantastic content. I purchased Bakers Racks (truthfully, someone was throwing them away & I had a friend help me get them), I have a few grow lights and was given a heat mat or two. I have some white foam core board (may be too much insulation for seed starting). I'm hoping to get started January 2nd, 2024. The days here are between 42° & 62° farenheit. The nights are chilly & some below freezing! I have rainbow chard, kale varieties and brassicas still growing. No coverings at all! Crazy weather but I wanted to thank Ben. Last year I followed the channel intently no matter where I was. So many thanks to Ben & the others involved with this channel. My Cancer cells have been on the decline since I started watching this channel. I also watch The Rusted Garden with Gary P. Both of you are wonderful humans. So many "Thanks" for you both!

[taschabelle]

Just wanted to say how much I love your channel. I have a container only garden, but I still find your content so helpful. I grow veg outside on my rooftop patio all year round in zone 8b. With limited space and ambitious goals, I go all out when it comes to planning and companion planting. Thank you for sharing what you know in such a charming way. Good luck with the coming growing season!

[GardenMinistry.]

Your videos keep getting better and better!! And thank you for the wonderful graphics to show what you are planting, that was brilliant! I was laughing and enjoying every minute, and love your adorable dog 😍

[hoosierpioneer]

Happy new year to all my friends across the pond! I have 5 more hours to go!

[danilueloo]

Another wonderful video that is chocked full of great information. Thank you!!

[papabearweber]

Looking forward to a wonderful 2024 and a quick return to the garden, in springtime. Good luck everyone wishing you all a Happy 2024!