What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to be talking about a topic that is honestly pretty confusing for most people, most gardeners, and also for myself when I started out, and you know every now and then it also still

confuses me and that would be succession planning. So this is something that a lot of

people do if they're a market gardener because it is the lifeblood of that model.

You have to know when to plant things and when things are coming out and when to put new things in.

So you have a constant stream of produce that you can sell at market.

But what about us home gardeners? Is it still important? Well, that's up to you, but in my mind, yes, it definitely is. It's pretty easy once you get your head around it, and it is great for home gardener. So you can get more production more production I mean that's what it's all

about do you have small space well if so maybe you want to make use of that small

space and make sure that you have greens and veggies and fruits constantly pumping out of the garden.

So how do we get started with succession planning?

First of all, it's all about choosing your varieties.

So almost any crop can be succession planted, but there are different crops that you would

succession plant for different reasons and they would offer different results.

So let's talk about something like a broccoli or a cabbage.

A lot of the times people will succession plant these to get more than one harvest.

So they might do something like two

successions of summer squash or cucumbers.

Instead of a lot of plants at the exact same time and then all of a sudden come fall they have all of their

cucumbers coming out at the exact same time. No one really likes that because you're going to have two weeks at your house where all you're

eating is cucumbers and then the rest of the year you have nothing unless you get into pickling

and preserving which is a whole other issue.

A lot of the times people will do this with the

quicker growing crops, so radishes, green onions, carrots, these are great for

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