We celebrated our wedding anniversary with wonderful friends in Philadelphia last night and over dinner our friend shared how she cultivates her vegetable garden using a philosophy called “succession planting.”
I was curious what that meant and she explained the idea is you seed the soil every two to four weeks so you have a continuous crop, for example, of arugula, beans, beets.
Succession planting is in contrast to planting seeds all at once where a crop can thrive or fail. When succession planting works, our friend explained, you are always harvesting.
I thought this was a wonderful concept to apply to any project or endeavor we might want to start and to sustain – to commit to seed the soil in a systematic way so while we are harvesting one crop a new one is just beneath the soil waiting to emerge.
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