The Market Gardener by Jean-Martin Fortier, (see an article Jean-Martin - The Market Gardener here).

Gardener to Gardener Seed Starting Primer and Almanac by Viki Mattern.

Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate by Wendy Johnson.

We asked the GardensAll Facebook community what gardening books they would recommend and here’s a brief listing of their favorites, all available on Amazon: In the slower winter months, we spend a lot of time reading, garnering what we can prior to plugging the next season’s vegetable garden crops into our new layout. Many of our favorite gardening books, like Joel Karsten’s Straw Bale Gardening and Mel Bartholomew’s classic Square Foot Gardening include plot layouts and scheduling and would be useful for doing a basic (static) plan. Other books of this type are numerous as listed here. 28 adaptable year-round forms, … (The Garden Journal Log Books) (Volume 1) by Joy L. One of the best sellers is the long-titled The Garden Journal, Planner and Log Book: Repeat successes & learn from mistakes with complete personal garden records. There are bunches of hard copy garden planning journals available. Garden Planning Journals, Books and Guides

If you have experience with either of the ones we mention here or any other, garden planner, please share your experience, we love to learn from you too. So, here’s what we’ve checked out so far. We launched into Straw Bale Gardening, Hugelkultur, and a variety of container and vertical garden methods. But circumstances changed and we needed to step out of the box, so to speak, and garden beyond the square foot way. We’d traditionally gone the pen and graph paper route for our Square Foot Garden. investigated a few online options ranging from freebies to 30-day free trial subscriptions. For that, a popular book on Amazon is The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season by Jennifer Kujawski. Some people prefer to physically write, plan, track and journal their gardening process. The good news is – It’s never too late - or too early - to plan! Physical or Digital Garden Planner? Even simple ones like star rankings next to each crop are quite helpful. With each subsequent year, we’ll know better how and what to grow, especially, if we take notes as we go along. Garden planning helps track our victories and, yes, our defeats. We’ve found that gardening with a definite plan cuts down on impulse buying and allows us to allocate space for succeeding crops.

Whether it’s in our heads, on the back of a napkin, or laid out to scale over the entire season, garden planning is important for the best success.

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