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container garden, having a calendar lets you maximize your space and manage your time properly. You can use information from wherever you purchased your seeds and find out -- within the week -- when you’ll harvest based on growth and germination times. That means you can put your squash in the ground and know based on the variety that about 52 days later you’ll be harvesting it. That means you can plan work days and you can have an idea of what kind of space you’ll have in 52 days or so. Then you can put in another crop and get more out of any size garden. In addition, this lets you plan succession planting, which means you’ll have fresh produce coming out of your garden longer during the season. There’s a whole bunch of planting guides and spreadsheets available if you google “garden calendar.” Or you could just crack open your spreadsheet software and go to town like I did. It’s a bigger job that you think, but trust me, it’s worth the time. FROM SCRATCH MAGAZINE
4)Service your equipment regularly As you may have noticed from the weeding entry above, I had a lot of issues with equipment failure. I think the tiller suffered from some sort of transmission failure, the mower suffered some sort of carburetor thing and my poor action hoe suffered a snapped blade. The guy at the shop says I didn’t cause the tiller failure, which I got in writing as it didn’t belong to me. But I honestly don’t know how much I was responsible for the mower and the rest of the gear that failed. By the way, those three items are just a few items on a long list. At the incubator farm program, we went through a