The 2015 Garden Plan

New year, new plan for the garden!  We've changed up what we're planting this year, and where everything's going.  Last year we learned some key lessons the hard way:

• You reaaallly only need 2 or 3 jalapeño plants, or else you'll be force feeding jalapeños to your friends, neighbors, and random people you pass on the street.  Seriously we had about 10 lbs of jalapeños from the 4 plants we grew last year.
• Last year we got a little over-excited and planted too much stuff, resulting in a jungle of tomatoes and beans that we couldn't hack through.  We ended up not picking a lot of veggies because we couldn't reach them, and they smothered other things we tried to grow, like swiss chard
• We could have planted a lot more spinach and other early spring veggies.  This year we're going nuts with the spring veggies, and starting them a lot earlier

So without further ado (drumroll), here's the Official 2015 Garden Plan!!



The biggest change this year is that we're going to try and do two major plantings: an early spring crop and late summer crop.  The spring layout shows a lot of peas, spinach, kale, and other cold weather crops.  Then around early/mid-May, we'll switch to the Summer layout!

Just like last year's layout, each square is one square foot of our garden.  The brown squares is the footpath.  The dark green squares are where the trellises will go.

Spring Layout

Once summer rolls around, we get to the good stuff: tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, etc all growing on the trellises!  A lot of the non-trellis plants (carrots, kale, cabbage) stay the same year round.

Summer/Fall Layout

One last thing - here's our predicted yields.  They seem wildly high to me, but we'll see what happens!  Anyone know what to do with 70 lbs of beets??

* Yield estimates are from here: http://commongroundkalamazoo.com/images/YieldCalc.pdf and a few other sources I found on google.