The Ultimate Small Space Planting Calendar

Timing is everything in gardening, especially when you are working with limited space. If you leave a raised bed empty for three weeks in the spring, you are losing valuable growing time. Our Free Succession Planting Calendar is designed specifically for small backyards. It shows you exactly how to follow an early spring crop (like radishes or lettuce) immediately with a summer crop (like tomatoes or peppers), and finish the year with a fall crop (like kale or carrots) all in the exact same square foot of soil.

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Calendar Sneak Peek: The Spring Transition

Here is a quick example of how succession planting works in a small 4x4 raised bed:

March 15: Plant early peas along a vertical trellis. Sow radish and spinach seeds in the front rows.
April 25: Harvest radishes (they grow fast!). Immediately plant bush bean seeds in their place.
May 15: Spinach bolts as the weather warms. Pull it out and transplant your tomato seedlings (started indoors) into that space.
June 10: The peas are finished producing. Pull the vines down and plant cucumbers to climb the now-empty trellis.

By constantly rotating crops the moment they finish producing, a single small bed can produce the equivalent of a garden three times its size.