Summer Succession Planting: Never Run Out of Harvest (What to Plant Every 2 Weeks)

Never run out of fresh food from your garden — even in the heat of summer. In this class, Nicky & Dave Schauder from Permaculture Gardens teach you exactly how to succession plant through the summer so your beds are always producing. 🌿 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: → The 3 crop types every summer garden needs (fast, medium, slow) → Which plant families to skip in summer — and which ones thrive → How to design a raised bed with succession built in → Heat-tolerant lettuce alternatives you've probably never tried → The 3 crops Thomas Jefferson planted every 2 weeks from April through November → How to transplant in 90-degree heat without losing seedlings → Watering, fungal disease prevention, and compost tea as a foliar spray → Pest management without chemicals ⏱ CHAPTERS: 0:00 Introduction & what we're covering 1:41 Planning your summer garden — crop chart breakdown 5:33 3 types of succession planting explained 9:35 Which plant families love the heat (and which to skip) 13:16 Raised bed succession examples with SAGE app 21:33 Why your brassicas failed — and what to try instead 24:14 Flowers in the summer garden 27:50 Thriller, filler, spiller — the 3D garden design principle 28:33 Heat-tolerant lettuce varieties and shade strategies 32:17 Succession greens: Malabar spinach, Kalaloo & summer salad recipes 35:16 The 3 crops to plant every 2 weeks until November 36:19 How to transplant in the heat (the row cover hack) 39:08 Summer watering — deep and slow vs. daily drips 41:49 Compost tea as a foliar spray for summer crops 45:05 Pest management — trap crops, egg inspection & row covers 🌱 FREE RESOURCES MENTIONED: → SAGE Permaculture Garden Design App: https://permaculturegardens.org/sage-app → Book — Permaculture Gardening for Everyone: https://permaculturegardens.org (Mother Earth News store) → Free 5-Day Plant Your Pantry Challenge: https://permaculturegardens.vipmember... → Register for our next webinar on our website https://permaculturegardens.org/ 🌾 ABOUT PERMACULTURE GARDENS: We're Nicky & Dave Schauder — permaculture educators, researchers, and farmers at Bethany Farm in Loudoun County, Virginia. We help families grow their own food ecologically, intentionally, and with a sense of what it's really for. The science of growing. The soul of living. Subscribe for weekly growing wisdom from the farm → https://permaculture-gardens.kit.com/... #permaculture #successionplanting #summergarden #organicgardening #permaculturegarden