Succession Planting: The Key to Year-Round Harvest in Australia

The Problem Succession Planting Solves Most vegetable gardeners plant in one go at the start of the season and experience a predictable result: too much of everything at once, then nothing. Twenty lettuces planted on the same day produce 20 mature lettuces simultaneously — an impossible quantity for most households — followed by weeks with no lettuce. The same pattern repeats with beans, zucchini, radishes, and almost every quick-maturing crop. Succession planting solves this by staggering …