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Horticulture

Vegetables, orchard, berries and herbs, planted on a calendar that fits your zone.

A garden forgives a lot. Read the Basic Plan, plant something small this season, and let the rest come with time.

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Your path through horticulture

Start with the Basic Plan, then take the Breakouts one at a time.

  1. Basic Plan · start here

    Horticulture: the Basic Plan

    The whole subject in one sitting, so you know what to do first.

    About 15 min

    Start
  2. Breakout 1

    Garden layout, spacing and companions

    Bed size, grid spacing, companion planting that works, cross-pollination, and rotating for fertility.

    About 23 min

    Start
  3. Breakout 2

    Seed starting

    Frost dates, trays, lights, hardening off, saving seed, and what grows from the grocery store.

    About 16 min

    Start
  4. Breakout 3

    Potatoes in grow bags

    Store-bought or certified seed, setting up the bag, watering, harvest and the green-potato rule.

    About 13 min

    Start
  5. Breakout 4

    Orchard and fruit trees

    Apples, figs, pears and pawpaws for the Piedmont.

    About 8 min

    Start
  6. Breakout 5

    Berries and vines

    Blueberries, blackberries, muscadines.

    About 8 min

    Start
  7. Breakout 6

    Greenhouse and polytunnel

    Stretching the season on both ends.

    About 8 min

    Start
  8. Breakout 7

    Pests and disease

    What is eating it and what to do without chemicals.

    About 8 min

    Start
  9. Breakout 8

    Month-by-month planting calendar

    Your frost dates, a master countdown, and month-by-month tasks for zones 3–10.

    About 20 min

    Start

That’s the whole course.

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