Ramsey Farms Planting Calendar - UPDATED!

2014 Garden Plan Timeline

I'm a planner by nature. My Chief Farmhand, Chris is a hard worker by nature. It's why we make a good farm team. But my nerdy Excel spreadsheet tendencies don't stop just because I want to be a farmer! lol

If you keep up with our blog, you know we are trying a garden planning software for the first time this year (you can see a clip of our landscape plan and the plant list/planting calendar from that software to the right) and I still have another list that is basically a calendar of planting dates by area.

There are some who can just toss some seeds in the ground and be bountiful, but we've put more thought and process to what we're doing. We did a lot of research this past autumn and over the winter about the raised beds, vermiculture, the cold frame, companion planting, crop rotation, compost, and more and now all that self-education and ideas are in a plan that's relatively easy to follow and hopefully maintain.

The fun part is that it is flexible too because like everything, you can have the best of plans but need to be able to just roll with the flow when you need to...just like life! :)

Enjoy seeing our tentative plan below and let us know how we can help you start your own gardening! Click the comments button at the bottom of the article and leave your questions & comments. Thanks!

CF- coldframe 

KRB- kids raised bed
HG- herb garden
B40 - Refers to the "back 40" foot row at the back of our property
all else is "main garden", row 1 & 2 are already built so they may be referenced specifically
Yellow highlight indicates seeds not yet on hand/in stock

• 1/20: Seeded CF celery, lettuce mix, mesclun mix, radishes, carrots, and spring onions
• 2/9: 2nd seeding of leaf lettuce in cold frame
• 2/15: Planted white onion sets (row 1) and sweet peas - under cover (KRB)
• 2/16: Leaf lettuce & carrots - under cover (row 1) and lavender-covered (HG). Reseeded celery (cf)
• 2/23: Reseeded CF lettuce.
• 2/25: Sowed cilantro and chamomile under plastic cloches (HG) and lemon balm (under cloche) in a pot next to the HG
• 3/1: Reseeded lettuce, carrots, and onions (row 1) and celery (CF) - only where no visible growth
• 3/8: Uncover lettuce & carrots (row 1). Plant leek seeds (row 1). 
• 3/12: Started harvesting radishes from CF!
• 3/15: Seeded beets (row 1), reseeded & uncovered chamomile (HG), reseeded lettuce & Mesclun mix (CF), reseeded lettuce (row 1). Harvested early mesclun mix for 1st salad of the spring season!
• 3/21: Harvested and reseeded all radishes in CF
• 3/27: Planted potatoes (KRB)
• 3/28: Seeded beets & carrots (B40)
• 4/1: Planted nasturtium (under cover KRB). Uncovered cilantro, chamomile, and lemon balm (HG)
• 4/3: Reseeded lettuce (row 1), reseeded lavender, chamomile, lemon balm
• 4/5: Reseeded carrots (row 1) and radishes (cf), seeded Little Gem Butterhead lettuce and scarlet globe radishes (row 2), seeded cherry belle radishes (b40).
• 4/6 Planted: Borage (in pots), radishes (b40)
• 4/13: Beefsteak tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, basil, geraniums, hot peppers (red hot chili, jalapeno, Caribbean habanero), sweet peppers (piminto, red bell, orange bell, yellow bell), okra
• Seeded: bush beans, Great Northern dry beans, corn, cukes, sunflowers (b40), marigolds, summer squash, zucchini (row 3)
• Have Stevia plants in pots

Future:

• 5/1: cantaloupe, winter squash (row 4) decided to leave garlic in and not plant these
• 7/16: Will we be in North Carolina after this or will we start our Georgia garden? The first things I plan to plant in GA is bush beans, bell peppers, and cucumbers! I've started a plan but it's mainly daydream until I can put boots to ground and shovel to dirt.
• 8/1: bush beans, borage, cukes, dill, summer squash, zucchini, tomatoes, beets
• 8/15: leeks, head lettuce, green onions, radish, cilantro
• 9/1: carrots
• 9/15: leaf lettuce

Tentative Georgia Planting Calendar - Fall/Winter 2014

• By August 10: Bush Beans, Bell Peppers
• By August 15: Cauliflower(?), cucumbers
• August 1 - 25: Summer squash and/or zucchini
• August 1 - September 1: Broccoli, kale
• August 1 - September 20: Beets
• August 1 - October 1: Cabbage
• August 20 - September 15: Carrots
• September 1 - October 1: Lettuce
• September 1 - October 15: Radishes, Spinach(?)
• September 1 - October 31: Leeks
• September 1 - December 31: Green onions
• October 1 - November 15: Garlic
• November 1 - December 31: Asparagus(?)