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Maintaining Your Garden - Best Practices For Weeding, Hygiene, Succession Planting, And Harvesting

Harvesting Your Produce - It's All In The Timing! Baby Greens Harvest Demonstration: Beet Harvest Demonstration: Sweet Potato Harvest Demonstration:

Bean Seed Demonstration Part 1: Part 2:

Seed to Table and Back Again is my online course that will guide you through the steps of creating, organizing, and implementing a plan for your own edible garden. Learn to design, implement, maintain, harvest, and preserve, your own organic garden. This course gives you the tools to create greater food security in your own backyard. During our time together you will: - Learn how to design a 3 season garden so you can make the best use of your space and have fresh food practically all year round - Become more conscious of your connection to the natural world around us - Get healthier and stronger simply through spending time with your garden space - Gain the knowledge and skills to execute a garden space anywhere so that you can turn even your city backyard into a bountiful gardening oasis - Learn ways to solve your biggest garden challenges without the frustrations of trial and error - Learn how to preserve your harvest, so you can enjoy your produce year round with family and friends Learning includes: - 2, 3 hour, live workshops - 2, 30 min., 1:1 calls with me, Hanna - Customized garden plan - Printable pdf files, worksheets, pre-recorded video lessons - Lifetime access MODULE 1: Garden Design MODULE 2: Crop Planning MODULE 3: Seed Starting Indoors MODULE 4: Early Spring Garden MODULE 5: From Paper to Soil - Building your Garden MODULE 6: Maintaining Your Garden MODULE 7: Seed Saving, Preserving Harvests MODULE 8: The Fall Garden BONUS: Celestial Planting Guide

We are going to dive right into your garden plans and dreams! Over the next 8 weeks, we will look at every aspect of the vegetable garden so that you can gain the tools and knowledge to create your best garden. While we do have opportunities to meet in our live workshops and 1:1 calls, I also want you to feel free to reach out to me if you have any burning questions that do not get addressed through our formal meetings together. Email is the best way to get a hold of me. You can reach me at hannamatchbox@gmail.com. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy all the information I have in store for you. Have fun, get creative, and enjoy your time in this course! Your Farmer, Hanna

This spreadsheet is an easy way to determine your timing for your spring plantings. You can use the information you learn here to help fill in your planting schedule. These two spreadsheets will help you determine how much to plant based on a combination of factors - your family size and your growing space. Simply follow the directions at the top of each page. This worksheet is where you can put all your plans together for planting season. Use what you have already determined: Varieties Days to maturity Required yields Available grow space When to plant based on your LFD You will find a number of examples at the top of the worksheet to help give you an idea of what this looks like once it is completed.

Module 3 - Seed Starting....And Seed Saving - Growing Your Own Transplants and Building Your Own Living Seed Bank Terms To Know Before we dive into all the details of starting your own seeds indoors, it's important to get familiar with the various terms we use when discussing and executing these tasks. - Potting up - This refers to the task of transplanting your seedlings into larger containers before you plant them into your garden. When we are potting up, we are looking for well formed root balls and/or species specific number of true leaves. We also need to ensure we are leaving enough time for the plant to "recover" and grow in its new container. This usually takes 7 - 10 days. It is important to give each seedling at least 21 days between potting up/transplanting. - True Leaves - These are the first set of leaves a plant puts out that actually look like the mature leaves of that variety. You will notice, the first set of leaves doesn't look anything like the "true leaves" . In the picture here, you can see the first set of leaves for this parsley, look nothing like a parsley leaf. - Set Out/Transplant - These terms are interchangeable and they both refer to planting your seedlings out to the garden. - Hardening Off - The time period when you slowly introduce your seedlings to the elements. This process takes about 10 - 14 days. We start by placing them outdoors for a couple of hours in a protected area, on a nice day. Each day we increase this a little until your seedlings are acclimated to the elements. This process reduces loss after setting out or transplanting by getting your seedlings ready for there forever home. - Growing Medium - A combination of soils, composts, and other amendments mixed together to create a "soil" for your seedlings to grow in. This recipe is meant to be packed with good food to get your plants off to a robust start.

This worksheet has a demonstration portion at the top to show you how to enter your information and get the numbers you need to determine how what type of each container size you need. These numbers will help you determine your soil requirements. In order to get to these number you will have to decide what each species you are growing needs in terms of container size and transplant resilience. You can revisit our Container Reference Sheet to help you make this decision. Once you have sorted out your containers, you can move onto soil amount requirements. There is a link in the spreadsheet that will take you to a soil requirement calculator. I have included this to make it easier and more accurate to determine how much soil you need. Once you have your total soil amount needed you can then divide that number by the number of growing mediums you plan to use in your seedling starter mix. For example: I have 60, 3.5" pots. They are 3.5x3.5x35". This means I need 1.49 cubic feet or 44.55 quarts or 0.06 cubic yards. From here I look at my Growing Medium Recipe which calls for 3 equal parts growing mediums: Seed starting mix, fish compost, and horse compost(this is my personal preference). 44.55 quarts/3=14.85 quarts of each will get me enough growing medium to fill all 60, 3.5" pots. I highly recommend getting a little extra of everything so that you have breathing room for accidents, miscalculations or any other unforeseen issues that may come up. If you have extra left at the end of the seedling production season, you can save it for the following year, dump it in your compost, or add it to your garden or outdoor containers.