{"id":99,"date":"2021-07-02T14:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/?p=99"},"modified":"2021-07-03T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T08:09:39","slug":"maximize-your-harvest-with-succession-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/maximize-your-harvest-with-succession-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximize Your Harvest with Succession Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are some people who participate in gardening as a Spring or Summer activity. Then there are those who want to use every available moment of their year to plant, grow and harvest their crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Succession planting allows you to make the most out of your growing space, within the timeframe that you want to be gardening. Many people use succession gardening to keep a supply of food growing when they don\u2019t have a lot of storage space for crops they harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This process helps you extend your growing season, giving you more produce than you previous got. There are some people who continually plant new seeds every couple of weeks, so that they can harvest new ones on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the first crop goes to harvest, you can immediately replant that space with either more of the same crop or something new, such as a different vegetable entirely. It depends on what your preferences are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also mix the types of plants you\u2019re growing so that some are providing food sooner than others. So for instance you might grow some peas that will harvest quickly, and also grow broccoli to harvest later in the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at the growing \u201cto maturity\u201d rate for your favorite vegetables, like tomatoes, potatoes, peas, broccoli, carrots, squash, cauliflower and more and make a plan for how you\u2019ll plant and grow the crops to ensure you have a reliable food source for as long as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the bed you\u2019re planting in will be raising new seeds and plants, you\u2019ll want to make sure you\u2019re doing everything possible to enrich the soil. You don\u2019t want it to get stripped of nutrients during the succession planting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composting can help with this issue. You can even take the used and harvested plants and add them to your compost pile when you go to plant a new crop. Don\u2019t just let the plants sit and take up space that could be used for something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, the succession period will depend on what region you\u2019re growing your food in. For example, a warmer climate might get more harvest time than one with a very short warming window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re in Texas, for example, you might be able to have a bean crop in the early Spring and then again in the late summer. Being a succession gardener is going to help you harvest food with amazing flavor and nutrients. You won\u2019t be allowing it to sit stagnant, becoming bitter or inedible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are some people who participate in gardening as a Spring or Summer activity. Then there are those who want to use every available moment of their year to plant, grow and harvest their crops. Succession planting allows you to make the most out of your growing space, within the timeframe that you want to be gardening.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Food_Gardening_Made_Easy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}