Garden Pro Planner Blog
Planning
Guides and how-tos from the Garden Pro Planner blog on planning.
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Your Seedlings Don't Need a $200 Grow Light. They Need It Six Inches Closer.
Full-spectrum, blurple, wattage claims: most of what grow light listings sell you is irrelevant to seedlings. The spec that matters, and why distance beats every other decision.
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8 Garlic Varieties Worth Ordering This Week (And the One That Isn't Garlic)
Seed garlic sells out through September for October planting. What hardneck and softneck actually change about flavor, storage and your winter, plus eight varieties worth the order.
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Everyone Amends Their Soil in Spring. That's Months Too Late.
Lime takes months to move soil pH, so April is the wrong time to apply it. Test your beds in September, amend in October, and let winter do the work.
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Sow Spinach Now, Ignore It All Winter, Cut It in April
Spinach sown in late summer sits out the winter alive and starts growing again before you can dig. The timing, the mulch, and the varieties that survive it.
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That Pepper Plant Is a Perennial, and Composting It in October Is a Waste
Peppers are tender perennials, not annuals. How to cut yours back, bring it inside before frost, and get ripe fruit weeks earlier next summer.
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Save These Seeds This Week - And Whatever You Do, Skip the Squash
Beans, lettuce and peppers are making free seed in your garden right now. Squash and cucumbers are setting a trap. How to tell which is which before you save.
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Stop Leaving Your Garden Beds Bare Over Winter - Sow This Instead
The bed your beans just finished in doesn't have to sit empty until spring. Which cover crop to sow in August and September, and how to pick between them.
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How to Plan a Fall Vegetable Garden by Counting Backward From Frost
Late July is when fall planting gets decided. The days-to-maturity math that tells you what still has time to make it before your first frost.
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How to Find Your First and Last Frost Dates
Looking up your frost dates takes two minutes. Understanding what they're actually promising you takes longer, and that's where gardens get lost.
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