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A BOUNTIFUL GARDEN ALL YEAR ROUND

A highly productive vegetable garden that produces lots of food all year doesn’t just happen, it comes about through intentional design. It’s achieved by selecting appropriate plants and using particular gardening techniques that extend the harvest season.

GARDENING CALENDARS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF TIMING

A gardening calendar is more than just a reference, it’s a valuable tool to help gardeners get organised, perform scheduled tasks and carry out long-term planning. Good gardening calendars usually contain more than just seed sowing information; the better ones will detail the expected weather patterns of the month and list the garden tasks that need to be performed, making each monthly gardening experience much more structured and predictable.

Growing annual vegetables is probably one of the most time-consuming, labour-intensive and resource-demanding ways to grow food. If you want the rewards, you have to make the effort, there’s no two ways about it. To increase the efficiency of such a laborious practice, gardening calendars were developed to assist with scheduling (by letting gardeners know when to sow seeds) and to

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