Category Timing

Five years in, I've stopped looking for the perfect planting calendar and started trusting a slower kind of judgment instead. Here's what that shift actually looked like in practice.

Sowing the same crop several times a season sounds simple until you're actually deciding how far apart to space the batches. Here's the reasoning I use, and the batch I ruined by spacing it wrong.

Some years the honest answer is that a planting window has closed and pushing forward anyway just wastes more time. Here's how I've learned to tell the difference between late and too late.

When a season stops matching anything in my notes, I have to throw out my usual timing rules and work from a smaller set of principles instead. Here's how I think through a year that won't behave.

My notebook has five years of planting dates in it, but none of them tell me what to do this year on their own. Here is the method I use to adjust old notes for a season that refuses to behave like the ones before it.

After five years of getting it wrong in both directions, I've narrowed my planting decisions down to one question I ask before every sowing or transplant. Here is what it is and why it works.