Simple Succession Planting

You planted everything at once. Now you have 14 zucchini and nothing else.

Sound familiar? Most home gardeners put their whole garden in at the same time, which means a glut of one thing for three weeks and then… nothing. Or worse — you get so overwhelmed by the harvest that half of it goes to waste.

There's a simple fix. It's called succession planting, and it just means planting crops in intervals so your garden keeps producing all season long instead of all at once.

The internet makes it sound complicated. It isn't.

Simple Succession Planting cuts through the overwhelm and gives you exactly what you need to get started — nothing more, nothing less.

Written by Angi Schneider, a homesteader and from-scratch gardener on the Texas Gulf Coast, this short and practical guide gives you the basics and then gets you outside to start experimenting.

Here's what you'll be able to do:

🌱 Stagger your plantings so you have fresh food coming in all season

🥬 Stop the feast-or-famine cycle of gardening everything at once

🪴 Use your garden space more efficiently without expanding it

📅 Know which crops to succession plant and exactly how far apart to space each planting

🔄 Mix and match methods based on your own climate and garden size

What's inside:

5 succession planting methods explained simply — the proper interval method, planting different varieties, sowing seeds when you transplant, pairing fast and slow growers, and replanting whenever you pull something out.

Plus —

🧮 Access to the Succession Planting Calculator —  a Google Spreadsheet you can copy and customize with your own dates and crops. It calculates exactly when each successive planting should go in based on your specific conditions — and because it's a Google Sheet, you can make it your own and reuse it every season.

📋 A printable Succession Planting Worksheet to track your plantings all season 🌿 Practical tips for soil management, dealing with the "messy garden" reality, and keeping notes year to year.

This is a short, focused guide — intentionally so. Succession planting is one of those things that's better learned by getting the basics and then just doing it. This book gives you the basics.

About Angi Schneider

Angi has spent over 25 years feeding her family from a large garden on 1.5 acres along the Texas Gulf Coast. She's the author of Pressure Canning for Beginners and Beyond and The Ultimate Guide to Preserving Vegetables, and shares simple living and gardening ideas at Creative Simple Living.

"There isn't one right way to succession plant. Most successful gardeners use a combination of all the methods. Just do what makes sense based on what you want to grow and what you know about your climate." — Angi Schneider

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