I’m tired of seeing fellow gardeners invest a lot of time, energy and money into their gardens and get less than stellar results. I know firsthand that it doesn’t have to be this way. The most important thing I’ve learned over the years is this-
When you make smart decisions throughout the season you set the foundation for success: you grow more food, spend less time on unnecessary tasks, waste less money, and create a beautiful garden.
Gardening can be lots of work, which is why it’s so important to set up a smart garden every year.
What’s a smart garden? One that delivers big results for the least amount of effort. Think lots of tasty homegrown food, with the least amount of maintenance necessary. You should have plenty of time left over to enjoy the satisfaction and beauty of your garden.
Truly learning how to deeply enjoy gardening takes more than just reading one book or taking a class. It’s something that slowly builds week by week, and season by season as you learn new things and then apply them to your own garden.
The Success in Every Season Masterclass focuses on helping you make your garden a source of vibrant, ongoing joy and pleasure in your life.
The class saves you time by simplifying the gardening process so you can dedicate more time to the parts of gardening (and life) that you love and enjoy.
Your success is important! Success in Every Season sets you up to reap big rewards so that it feels satisfying and worthwhile.
That’s what the Master class is designed for – to help you embrace the gardening lifestyle and get more out of every minute you spend growing and enjoying your food.
Here's a list of what we'll cover throughout the year:
Fresh and simple approach to planning your garden. You’ll work through your plan step-by-step, and at the end you’ll have a personalized blueprint for what a successful season in your garden looks like.
Designing Your Smart Garden: exercises and worksheets to help you reflect on last year’s garden and clarify your garden vision for this season, important questions to ask yourself before deciding what to grow.
Veggie Essentials: learn the different characteristics of vegetables so you can strategically choose which to grow – find out in which season you get a harvest, how much food you can expect to harvest from each plant, how much space the plants take up, and how many days until you’ll start harvesting food.
Seeds & Plants Simplified: know when to plant a seed or a plant, different kinds of seeds explained, how to choose the best varieties for your garden, recommendations for unique and colorful varieties, how to plant for beauty with flowers, and the best places and times to buy plants.
The decisions you make and the actions you take in spring set the stage for the entire season.
You’ll learn the best time to plant each vegetable in your climate and how to prep your garden beds quickly for planting.
Discover smart & simple techniques for helping your plants perform their best throughout the season: benefits of mulching, how to water correctly, and using row cover to help plants grow quickly.
Without heathy soil your garden isn't as successful. Find out which nutrients vegetables need and how to make sure your soil is providing them.
We’ll also cover how to create a vegetable garden that not only produces a lot of food, but is also beautiful to look at.
We end the class with a few behind-the-scenes tours of what’s happening in my front yard garden.
It’s more difficult to sustain your motivation through the summer, when you start getting distracted by the season's fun activities. I’ll guide you through the tasks that should be on your to-do list and inspire you to stay engaged and have fun while enjoying the bounty that your garden can bring you in this season.
The struggles with pests and diseases are one of the most common I hear from gardeners during the summer, so I've devoted an entire section to the most common pests and diseases that damage each plant family and how to combat them.
Learn how to harness the power of succession planting to keep the harvests going into the fall and early winter.
Tips for the best times to harvest vegetables and how to cure some of them for winter storage.
Once the fall arrives you shouldn't hang up your gardening gloves until you put your garden to bed for the winter. Accomplishing some important garden tasks will set you up for a less stressful spring and a more successful season the following year.
Be clear on how to prepare for your first frost, which vegetables will survive, and what to do to save the ones that won't.
Simple season extension tricks to keep the harvests going past frost.
Checklist and videos walking you through exactly how to put your garden to bed for the winter so you set yourself up for a successful spring the next year.
Megan Cain
CreativeVegetableGardener.com
Welcome!
Before we begin...
How I Became a Gardener
How to use this course
Book a Coaching Session!
Smart Start Garden Planner Book
Why You Need a Garden Plan
Reflecting on Last Year's Garden
Garden and Life Vision
Choosing What You Want to Grow
Top 3 Seed Catalogs
In What Season Will You Get the Harvest?
How Much Food Will You Harvest From Each Plant?
How Big Do the Plants Grow?
How Many Days Until You Get a Harvest?
Bringing It All Together
When to Plant a Seed or Plant
Understanding Different Types of Seeds
Tips for Reading the Seed Catalogs
Unique & Colorful Varieties to Grow
How to Narrow Down Your Seed Order
Additional Garden Planning Resources
Winter Wrap-Up
Create Your Spring Planting Schedule
Understanding Cool & Warm Season Vegetables
Know When to Sow a Seed or a Plant
Best Places To Buy Seeds & Plants
How to Choose the Best Varieties for Your Garden
Why You Need a Permanent Garden Design
How to make easy raised beds for your vegetable garden
Keeping Records Makes You a Better Gardener
How to Prep Your Garden Beds for Planting
How to Decide What to Plant Where
Spacing Guide for Plants + Seeds
How to Rotate Your Vegetables to Create Healthy Soil
What Mulch to Use & How to Apply It
How Much and When to Water Your Garden
Using Row Cover in Spring to Protect Your Plants
Building Blocks of Soil + What Plants Need
What You Should Use to Fertilize Your Garden
Ways to Build Soil Fertility
Things Not to Do to Your Soil
Growing Perennial Foods: Asparagus & Rhubarb
Growing Perennial Foods: Strawberries & Raspberries
Growing Perennial Foods: Blueberries
Tips for Growing Fruit Trees
Growing Great Onions
How to Grow Cilantro All Season Long
Tips for Growing Carrots Successfully
Designing Your Garden + Ideas for Adding Flowers
Using Annual Flowers to Add Color
Creative Planting Ideas
Grow Up With Trellises
Mix It Up By Adding Subtle Color
September Garden Tour- Focus on Flowers
Garden Tour: April
Garden Tour: May
Garden Tour: May
Garden Tour: May
Garden Tour: June
Spring Wrap-Up
Pests & Diseases: Brassicas
Pests & Diseases: Squash Family
Pests & Diseases: Tomatoes I
Pests & Diseases: Tomato Family II
Pests & Diseases: Rabbits, Japanese Beetles & Slugs
How to Keep Critters Out of Your Garden
Tips for Reducing Pests & Diseases
Summer Succession Planting
How to Prune Your Tomato Plants
What Are Garlic Scapes + How to Harvest Them
How to Harvest and Cure Your Onions
How to Harvest & Cure Garlic
What to Do If You're Brussels Sprouts Aren't Growing
July Garden Tour
August Garden Tour
Summer Wrap-Up
Which Vegetables Survive a Frost
Preparing for your First Frost
Fall Weeding, Mulching, Bulb Planting & Taking Notes
Preparing the Rest of Your Landscape for Winter
Harvesting Fall Beets
Using Row Cover to Extend the Season
How to Build a Low Tunnel
How to Plant Garlic
Tour of Fall Plantings: September
Tour of Fall Plantings: October
Fall Wrap-Up
Let's Stay in Touch!
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