Here is an excellent article I found in the NYT by Margaret Roach on June 3, 2020 about succession planting in your veggie garden. She lives in the Hudson Valley but here in Norcal we can adapt her schedule to our longer one. Click on the small photo below for the full article.
“You’ve planted the vegetable garden; the beds are increasingly full. But before you check that task off the list, take a closer look. The cilantro and lettuce are trying to tell you something: Once is almost never enough.
There will soon be vacancies, as some crops — those that are quick to mature or don’t tolerate heat well, or both — pass their prime.
Tomatoes, eggplants and peppers are generally planted just once. But other crops need sowing again and again to keep producing. Are you ready with more seeds — or better still, a homegrown supply of fresh transplants selected for summer right through fall harvest — to plug into every precious bit of available real estate?
This is succession sowing, an advanced level of vegetable-garden math….”
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