The Ultimate Vegetable

Planting Guide

Plan the perfect garden for you, with a permaculture-inspired approach and step-by-step guidance.

Stop guessing what, where, when, and how much to plant. Our vegetable planting guide helps you create a clear, personalized plan so you can grow a thriving garden — without overwhelm or wasted effort. Includes different ways to start a garden (including low-labor, no-till approaches), and more.

Unlimited, lifetime access
Digestible, do-able video lessons + printable worksheets
Big picture concepts + nitty-gritty how-to’s
Live mentorship
Start when you want and go at your own pace

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You are both informed, fun, practical and adorable! The teaching videos are excellent, high quality, beautifully shot. I am a novice creating a 25 x 2 foot no-dig garden alongside an urban condo. Thank you for the variety of garden plans you shared and your idea about just picking 7 or so vegetables and of course flowers-- Yes!

Amy E.
Thank you so much for the insights and approaches you have provided. You make trying new techniques feel less intimidating. I have especially enjoyed your easy-breezy style of holding the entire process as the goal! You are both such encouraging gardening role models.

Emil B.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this class! I am an intermediate gardener, but I learned a lot. I love seeing the different approaches in each of your gardens and it made me realize that I can mix-and-match and experiment with the bed layouts and I don’t have to do just raised beds or row gardening but can combine the two. Thank you!

Joy W.
My husband and I are going to try no-dig for the first time this season. We watched together and realized we know a lot more than we realize about gardening…your class boosted our confidence, and we feel better about trying something new.

Laura L.
I enjoyed this course; lots covered, easily digestible, and several short talks to go back to for future reference!

Rebeca S.

Planning your garden thoughtfully is like planting a seed in fertile soil. It’s the first step toward flourishing crops you tend with confidence, and without overwhelm.

Learn How To:

Choose what to plant that will grow well and be fulfilling to harvest
Decide how much to plant so you’ll have plenty to enjoy, but don’t end up drowning in green beans (or anything else)
Align your garden dreams and goals with your life and responsibilities
Locate vegetables where they’ll be happiest and healthiest
Know when to plant what, in your specific region
Prepare a garden space with the least amount of effort and best outcome
Maintain healthy soil and reduce pests and diseases

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What Makes the Growing Wise Vegetable Planting Guide Different Than Other Garden Planners?

Not Just Charts — Real Guidance: Most garden planners are static charts and lists. This is a video-based class with real-life examples of gardens, techniques, and step-by-step demonstrations you can follow (plus some great charts and lists!)
Holistic + personalized: Choose what’s right for you, integrate your garden with your life
Rooted in real-world experience: Taught by gardeners who grow lots of food and also balance work, family, and responsibilities
No-till approaches: Save your back and build healthy soil
Theory + practice: From the big picture to the details, we cover the whole journey
Ongoing support: We’ll answer your gardening questions for seasons to come

Step-By-Step Garden Planning and Creation

Through a combination of engaging, information-rich video lectures, how-to’s, and printable worksheets, we’ll teach you:

Holistic Thinking Basics: Discover your why and learn how to think holistically about your garden and how it works with your life.

Garden Layout and Design: Garden layout tours, choosing a site, spacing, fertility, and design considerations.

What, Where, When, and How Much to Plant: Decide on crops, amounts, and placements that fit your goals, needs, and location. Know when to plant what.

How to Start a Garden from Grass (You’ve Got Options): No-till methods, hand-digging, using a machine, plus soil testing basics.

Printable Guides and Worksheets

Holistic Goal-setting
What Veggies to Grow?
Seed Spacing
Germination Temperatures
Possible Yields
When to Plant What in Different Regions
Sample Garden Layouts
Sample Crop Rotations

Get Growing Now, and Deepen Your Knowledge Over Time

The Vegetable Planting Guide helps you create a plan so you can get seeds in the ground right away, but it doesn’t stop there. You’ll also learn about more advanced techniques that you can implement over time, like:

Succession Planting: Planting the same crop more than once, with time in-between, to expand the harvest window
Crop Rotation: Making a new garden plan each year that reduces pests and diseases and supports healthy soil
Irrigation Techniques: Different ways to incorporate watering into your planning and gardening
Companion Planting and Intercropping: How to harness the power of diversity to increase the resiliency of your garden

What kind of beauty and bounty will sprout for you?

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Frequently Asked Questions

No — this isn’t an app or software, it’s better. You’ll learn a process you can use again and again, no matter where you live or how your garden evolves over time. You’ll feel confident and empowered to create your own custom plan, rather than plugging numbers into a one-size-fits-all tool. It includes a combination of video lectures, garden tours, demonstrations, plus worksheets and charts, and live support.
This program helps you think holistically and approach things in a way that will work—for your garden and for your life! Gardening is a skill that humans have been honing over thousands of years, passing knowledge from generation to generation. It makes sense that many people “fail” on their first attempt. The main reasons for this are planning a garden that’s too big to take care of, planting the wrong things for your region, planting things at the wrong time, not taking care to prepare the soil, or just getting overwhelmed with planning. We offer solutions to these and other common pitfalls.
Yes! In fact, this class is a great place to start for beginners. You’ll learn how to identify your gardening goals, and how to make sure they’re aligned with your life, then we’ll dive into answering questions like what to plant, how to create a garden bed, how much to plant, when to plant, and more.
You likely will. Our approach to garden planning takes things a bit deeper, especially in the advanced techniques like crop rotation and succession planting. We also guide our students to explore their holistic goals (like how they want gardening to fit in with the rest of their lives), which many experienced gardeners never have!
The Vegetable Planting Guide works for any scale. Whether you’re growing a few raised beds in your backyard or planning a larger homestead garden, you’ll learn how to optimize space and adapt techniques to fit your situation. There’s even some bonus content on space-saving techniques for smaller gardens.
Start by identifying your goals, choosing crops you’ll actually eat that grow well in your area, and mapping your space. Then decide how much of each crop to grow, create a planting calendar based on your region, and prepare your garden beds. Our step-by-step process walks you through it all, and more.
Yes! This class comes from our combined 50+ years of gardening experience, and teaching thousands of students. You’ll get started on the right foot and avoid common mistakes…but you’ll still learn by doing and infuse your own creativity into your garden. We share tools and techniques, but also encourage you to customize your garden plan.
It depends on how you approach it. If you like soaking up a lot of info at one time, you could work through the material in a weekend or a few evenings. If you prefer to digest things in bite-sized portions, you could take your time with each lesson. Because you’ll have lifetime access, you can revisit the lessons whenever you need to refresh or plan again for future seasons.
Yes! You can ask questions through the online classroom and an instructor will reply within a day or two.
The Online Gardening School is a comprehensive program covering everything from seed starting to soil building to pest management and beyond. The Ultimate Vegetable Planting Guide is a shorter, focused course designed to help you master the planning stage specifically — so you can go into your growing season with clarity and confidence. When you sign up for the Online Gardening School, you get all of the material from the Ultimate Vegetable Planting Guide, plus a lot more. If you get the Planting Guide and end up wanting to join the full Online Gardening School, you’ll get a discount that reflects the price of the smaller class.