Next step in my garden planning is to determine who likes whom, when to plant, how to plant, etc. My first order of business was to create a spreadsheet to gather all the pertinent information together. The most important things to note are plant spacing, row spacing, depth of planting and when the plant. The other data was more for me to be able to know when I should be harvesting and seeing shoots breaking through the dirt. By gathering this information all in one place, I can determine how many seeds I need for a given area and if I want to stagger any of my planting. For instance, with the watermelon we don’t want 20 melons ripe at the same time, so we plan to stagger the plantings by a week to extend the harvest season.
