Today's Friday Q&A is talking about growing cool weather crops and warm weather crops in the same bed.

You'll find that this subject kind of piggybacks on what we talked about in Tuesday's full

podcast episode about succession planting, but I want to go a little bit deeper into answering some of the questions that Bethany had. She said, is it possible to

have a raised bed that I could use for cold weather and warm weather crops in the same bed? For example,

plant cold weather crops in late March and then harvest and then fill the space with warm weather

crops. The simple answer to Bethany's

question is yes. And in fact, that's one of the joys of utilizing succession planting and relay

planting. But the way that you actually go about doing it in your garden has several factors that

are unique to you in your location. It does require a little

bit of an extra step of calculation. You've got to calculate when you need to plant certain plants,

especially those cool weather crops, because that's when your time is going to start.

And then you have to know, or at least have a good idea about how long you can

expect those cool weather crops to stay in your garden whether that's because they come to harvest

and they're done or they are stopped by the temperature some cool weather crops won't grow after it

gets a certain temperature so once you know when to plant those cool weather crops

and then how long you can expect them to be in the garden,

then you can make a decision on when you can plant

those warm weather crops.

And again, just because you can plant warm weather crops

as soon as the last frost has passed,

that doesn't mean you have to. If you have a little

bit of longer growing season like I do, you can actually wait a little while until those cool

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