How To Use Succession Planting To Grow More Food

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You can use Succession Planting to grow more food in your garden while also reducing the overwhelm of having too much of one vegetable ripen at the same time. Learn more

How To Use Succession Planting To Grow More Food

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Gardening should be easy – toss some seeds out, water them, and in a month or so, harvest the fruits of your labor. In theory, it is that easy. However, there are better gardening methods that you can implement to get the most out of your backyard garden. Learn more

We are not one crop farmers! We are backyard gardeners and hobby homesteaders. We don’t have to use the same methods that farmers use in our home garden.

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Instead of harvesting your vegetables just once, wouldn’t it be more awesome to harvest them continually over the summer?

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You can grow more food with succession planting than you can with just regular planting. Succession planting is when you continually grow the same plant in the same space over the course of the growing season.

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