Education Center
Winter planning
- Choose a garden site
- Choose a garden type
- Container gardening
- Raised gardening beds
- Small and large plot gardening
- Make a growing plan
- Making a garden map
- Planting timeline for mid-Michigan
- Common crop chart
- Harvest calculator
- Crop rotation by plant family
- Succession planting and fall planting
- Companion planting and intercropping
- Select seeds
- Transplant growing plan
Spring garden preparation & planning
- Prepare your garden space/managing healthy soil
- Tilling: Why, how and when
- No-till: Why, how and when
- Composting
- Mulch, cover crops and sheet composting
- Plant your garden
- Protect your garden with fencing
Summer garden management
- Water your vegetables
- Manage weeds
- Trellis and prune select crops
- Manage pests
- Manage plant diseases
Fall harvest & cleanup
- Best practices for harvest and post-harvest vegetable handling
- Preserve your harvest
- Seed saving