The Full 2024 Garden Plan

Everything I am growing next year--both during the main spring/summer season, and then in my fall & winter beds--including scaled layout drawings of each bed type. Enjoy!

[@victoriawolfe686]

I’m in awe. This plan is amazing, and the amount of knowledge you hold in your head is staggering lol

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Thanks! I definitely DON’T hold it all in my head. Putting this video together made me catch and fix about a dozen things 😁

[@rigoolvera4849]

you are so beautyful rachael.thank you for sharing,

[@anneg8319]

Wow! Thank you again for sharing with us your planning. I will be copying quite a bit of this.

[@WellGroundedGardens]

You’re very welcome, and I’m glad it’s helpful!!! I get a lot out of making these; it forces me to think through all the details. I was going to also list my seed sources but it would’ve been too long…I may make a separate, shorter, video on that one.

[@SteveSerrano65]

Thanks for sharing. That is some really good info. It's amazing how fast the seasons seem to go when you're a gardener. I usually plant onions from sets. When I did grow from seed, they were the biggest and best storing onions that I have ever grown. Your videos and insight always give me ideas. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Thanks-this gives me hope for my onions!

[@Fred.pSonic]

Thank you Rachel, that was wonderful. I love your attention to detail, your design smarts and the logic behind the plant placement for each of the beds. My question: do you have an area set aside as a dedicated pollinator garden? I'm planning out a cut flower garden and would love to see how you visualize out a large bed in the same manner you've done here. The varieties and color combinations you'd use, your succession planting strategy, all that expert stuff you know how to do. I didn't find any flower videos in your library, please include a link if I've overlooked it. Thanks again, happy gardening!

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Hi! I have one little triangular area near the garden that’s planted to a native wildflower blend (currently buried under snow 🥶) and otherwise I tend to (a) sprinkle things like borage and Holy Basil through the beds, (b) liberally use clover, mustard, and buckwheat cover crops for pollinators, and hope to start (c) using the holes in the concrete block edges of my beds to house some perennial pollinator plants. On that last one I want to be sure I’m not going to add another layer of blocks before I invest in perennials.

[@SteveSerrano65]

It looks as if you are a Michigan State fan. I am a Notre Dame fan. We still have to cheer for the Wolverines vs Bama!!😁

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Our daughter is at State, but we will still root for the Wolverines as long as they’re playing anybody but the Spartans 😁

[@lisaf7688]

💚👍🏻

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Thanks :)

[@buds8423]

I understand location safety, but given a gardening channel, indicating your zone at printed intro would be helpful!(MI ranges from 4 to6).

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Ah, good call! We’re not “up north”-zone 6A. But this is almost all annuals, anyway.

[@anneg8319]

Would you teach us how to cover/undercrop please? Thank you in advance.

[@anneg8319]

Just saw your cover crop video. Thank you very much

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Glad it helped-I’ll try and cover that more intentionally in some future videos, too. 👍

[@tiffanikeyes4269]

Great video Rachel. Quick question. Why do you alternate your bean/tomato plants and bean/pepper plants in bed 6? Is there a specific reason? I’m learning so much from your channel. Thank you!

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Hi! It’s because I grow the beans not just for their crop but also to release nitrogen into the soil, post harvest (I leave the roots with their nodules in the ground when I cut off the plant at ground level). I intersperse them as evenly as I can all around the bed so that the eventual nitrogen release is spread out sort of evenly.

[@tiffanikeyes4269]

@@WellGroundedGardens makes so much sense! I’m going to try that this year.

[@tiffanikeyes4269]

Where to you buy your tomato seeds? I’m having a hard time finding those varieties.

[@WellGroundedGardens]

TomatoFest! No affiliation or anything; I just freaking love them. www.tomatofest.com/