Planning

[Penellype]

Not really done much planning yet except (at allotment):
Dig raised beds as they become empty and remove horsetail
Dig tunnel as it becomes empty and remove horsetail
Dig path next to compost area and remove horsetail
Dig compost area and remove horsetail...

You get the picture!

[Two_Sheds]

My plan for next year, knowing I’ll have even less time and energy, will be to simplify and streamline, almost but not quite a monoculture: with the emphasis on ground cover, so lots of spuds, squash, sweet corn and dwarf French beans

Onions get white rot, so might not bother
Peas get too dry and also pea moth, so won’t bother
Cabbages, plagued by slugs and CWBs, despite netting, so only a dozen

I do want to expand the strawberry patch, so I need to get on with the runners now really

[Derbydal]

i'm going to plant soft fruit in the area that my onions where in this year (white rot) got plenty of cuttings started so thats a plan don't know about onions next year can they be grown in pots as anyone done this with them? i'm only going to grow clubroot resistant brasicas , i'll be growing my spuds in row north to south as my neighbour did this year and got loads more spuds than I i'm going to grow toms outside again
but not growing roma again! atb Dal

[annie8]

So experiment crops looking at celeriac, borlotti beans, garlic and blackcurrant bushes. Not doing sweetcorn, peppers and Jerusalem artichokes (unless they are amazing when I dig them up). Less potatoes and only one courgette, plus will try to put some tomatoes outside as well as in the greenhouse. Also doing peas, carrots, leeks, strawberries, salad, herbs, rhubarb, and raspberries. Maybe chilis depending on the crop I get this year.

[veggiechicken]

My Plan will be the same as this year - Roots, Shoots, Fruits and Leaves sown on a 4 week rotation, regardless of whether its the right time of year or not - and Flowers on Friday (with the Fish).
The same 30 beds, one for each day of the month; the first 26 containing a plant starting with the equivalent letter of the alphabet. Each bed contains a fruit, veg, flower and herb.
Monday is seed sowing, Tuesday is Chooksday; Wednesday is for Weeding, Thursday is for Thinning and Transplanting, Friday is for Feeding and Flowers, Saturday is for catching up and Sunday is for sorting seeds.

Nothing complicated about that.

Just wanted to add that I'm in the process of devising a perpetual calendar which will tell me what to do on every day of the year. Then, I'm going to pack the seeds to sow each week into an envelope with seed labels ready written. There will also be at least one surprising item in each envelope, drawn at random from my seed stash.

Of course, my perpetual calendar will have little in common with the conventional advice dished out by "proper" gardeners. Where's the fun in that!!

[rary]

My plan for next year, knowing I’ll have even less time and energy,

TS I have found that with less energy, you have less time,so plan accordingly

[rary]

Just wanted to add that I'm in the process of devising a perpetual calendar which will tell me what to do on every day of the year.

Of course, my perpetual calendar will have little in common with the conventional advice dished out by "proper" gardeners. Where's the fun in that!!

I don't need a perpetual calendar for that
I am married

And yes, following the advice of "proper" gardeners can take the fun out of gardening
After all they tell you to label things when you plant them, you then miss the surprise when you see what it was that you planted or sowed in parts of your garden