Video: Succession Planting: Harvest More Veggies!

succession planting, corn
succession planting, Sweetness Bicolor corn

Do you wish you could get a larger vegetable harvest? Well, this week’s video is all about succession planting and that’s exactly what will happen.

Succession planting involves being aware of your growing season and immediately planting new crops once a crop is harvested. That way, you never have an empty area in your garden that could instead be producing for you.

Garlic is a perfect example of this. We typically harvest ours around the first of July and immediately replace it with another crop. And as you see in my video, corn is one of our favorite succession crops because it only needs about 70 days. Perfect!

In this video, you’ll learn the following:

  • What succession planting is
  • The importance of knowing your growing zone. When is the average last frost date in the spring? When do you typically start having frosts in the fall?
  • I’ll share three examples of how we implement succession planting in our garden
  • Learn the importance of soil preparation for your succession crops
  • How to choose crops for this purpose
  • Last but not least, I provide lots of ideas for either cool season or warm season succession crops

Here’s my video, Succession Planting: Harvest More Veggies!

Are you intrigued? You can either dive right in as this year’s season progresses or prepare for next year. It’s all up to you but this is a great way to grow more food and have an efficient vegetable garden.

During the video, I mentioned a lot of possibilities for cool- and warm-season crops. Here they are:

COOL-SEASON CROP SUGGESTIONS:
Beets – 60 days
Cabbage – Tiara, 57 days
Carrots – Parisian Market, 50-60 days
Kale – 50 days
Lettuce – Buttercrunch, 65 days
Lettuce – Mesclun, 45 days
Radishes – 30 days
Spinach – 50 days
Swiss chard – 55 days

WARM-SEASON CROP SUGGESTIONS:
Bush beans – 55-60 days
Corn – Sweetness Bicolor 68 days
Corn – Early Sunglow, 66 days
Cucumbers – Patio Snacker, 55 days
Cucumbers – MiniMe, 55 days
Squash, summer – Grey, 45-50 days
Squash, pattypan – Green Lightning, 45 days
Tomato – Patio Choice Yellow (cherry), 45 days
Tomato – Orange Hat (dwarf), 55-65 days
Tomato – Cannellino (cherry), 55 days
Tomato – Matt’s Wild cherry, 55 days

Here’s a direct link to my YouTube channel. And if you’d like to pick and choose from my veggie videos, here’s a link to my Vegetable Gardening videos playlist.