Vegetable Garden Planning: 6 Steps Start to Finish (My 2022 Layout)

How to plan a vegetable garden, incl. vertical & raised bed square foot garden design, start dates, succession planting, spacing, varieties, shade, perennials, season extenders, herbs & more!

0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Review
3:08 - Goals
6:36 - Survey
9:29 - Growing Season
11:30 - Plug in Crops
16:17 - Choose Varieties
18:16 - Seed Shopping Tips

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[ThatLadyBird]

This might be too nerdy and meticulous for a lot of people, but I love the organization and also it really appeals to me to have a record of how your efforts in the garden are paying off. Definitely going to try this next garden season. Thank you 🙏 PS Im writing here 2 yrs after this video was published...if you only knew how food costs have soared this past 2 years!

[zelavie]

OOH that spreadsheet makes my data loving heart happy!!! You are amazing for sharing that at no cost!

[HavnerCelena]

I’m very excited to be able to get started and see what kind of stuff we are able to grow

[aprilschneider]

My goals are to make lots of vegetable broth at the end of the gardening season, to try dehydrating eggplants instead of pickling them, and to experiment with growing tomatoes in grow bags so they don't block the sprinklers in my garden. Thanks for the awesome video, April!

[shammamurphy]

I need to watch that again and take notes. What an amazing video, your spreadsheet is absolutely amazing!

[leslieinchicago]

Love your channel! Would love to see more of how you use your yields: stir-fry recipes, what you freeze, salads. Thank you!

[FrootyHoops]

I’ve been watching lots of videos on gardening recently, since last year at the end of august my family moved to a new house! We finally have lots of room for a garden!!! Me and my dad have already started preparing the yard and getting seeds to start planting within the next week or so. I’m very excited to be able to get started and see what kind of stuff we are able to grow :D

[victoriawolfe]

Love it April! I’m putting in my first fruit and nut guild this year - peach, plum, quince, and hazelnut. Fingers crossed. South Shore of Long Island. So far peach is doing great. Other trees are just planted so we will see. Also have currants, gooseberries, raspberries and blueberries.

[nait]

Is great to see that more people uses excel for gardening, I even added dynamic charts! 😂 so happy that you are much better this year.

[donnacochran]

OH MY GOODNESS!! I THOUGHT ABOUT MESSAGING YOU! IT'S SO NICE TO SEE YOU! You are so informative, kind of a rebel breaking the gardening rules for

[bhalliwell]

There are a lot of foods I like but which aren't kind to me so I don't eat them but I/we do grow them partly for my guy, and partly---mostly---to donate to local hunger centers. Like your hubs, he doesn't care for beets, dislikes the "earthiness" of beets' mineral taste, until we found yellow or golden beets. Can't possibly plant enough of those!
And, he used to be a great spinach aficionado until he discovered Swiss chard and from that moment it was bye-bye spinach. I still put spinach into the winter garden, though, because if we can keep it from freezing to mush it's well received as a kind of winter green.
Loved this video especially, very inspiring and very motivating! Thanks for all you do!

[carterbellwebster]

Wow. I thought I was a nerd. Clearly I'm just an amateur! Love the functionality of your spreadsheet! I'm off to your website to find a copy of it. Awesome!

[duaneschultz]

I learned a lot with your video. Thank you very much. God bless you and your family. Duane.

[jordellaskincare]

Subtropical Queensland Au. Just sorted out all my seeds. And as a beginner I'm just going to plant what I have for August end of winter). Love yr channel by the way..

[HablemosDelHuerto]

Great video, April. I am moving to a 3 acre property in Florida this year. I plan to plant a lot and to aim at self sufficiency as much as possible. I thought I was a garden nerd but…. I guess I’ll take second. The margarita was already in the mug….

[cindycook]

I’m hoping to be a first time gardener 😬. I want to be able to feed my family good organic foods and also teach my Grandaughter about gardening and spend lots of time with her 🥰

[Fattiapples]

Hi April your channel and garden beds excite me! Haha can you show your cleanup and how you refresh the soil each year with all those beds? Also how you combat pests like aphids with all that beet greens and lettuce being grown so nice and close together? I also signed up for the garden planter and link to excel sheet but didn’t get the coupon code or anything like another poster. I would love to see your excel sheet especially with your filled out info like your start dates and such and not completely blank if possible since your soil workable and last frost date is quite similar to mine and I have trouble with that part. Oh please! Thanks so much for you vid! My email has happi in it.

[tooshieg]

wonderful video. thanks for sharing. OBTW, I sub'ed to your newsletter but never received a coupon code for the planner- got an error instead.

[thomasallen]

I had hernia surgery July 2nd of last year and my hernias were worse the first thought I was down for 6 weeks due to i. then 3 weeks after I am finally able to get back to normal I caught COVID and that put me down for about 3 weeks so my summer garden ended in shambles and my fall/ over winter garden didn't happen. I have come back swinging this year

[DonnaMM]

Does your garden planner include a place to make notes about medicinal herbs? I have been buying seeds for various medicinal herbs, but now it's hard to keep track of what their benefits are. I love your garden trellis design. I'm knew to your channel, but you seem to cover subjects that most vloggers do not. What width raised bed would you suggest for planting potatoes? We can't put them directly in the ground because of the hardpan and rocks. In a 4' wide bed, would you plant two rows? See, this is why I need a planner. Thanks!