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What should you plant right now?
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- Written for small spaces
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Balcony & Containers
Big harvests from pots, planters, and rail boxes.
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One Raised Bed
Plan, fill, and plant your first bed with confidence.
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Seed Starting
From seed packet to sturdy transplant, step by step.
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Indoor Herbs
Fresh basil and mint from a windowsill, all year.
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Small Backyard
Make a modest plot earn its keep, season after season.
This month in your garden
July checklist
- Sow quick crops like lettuce and bush beans every two weeks. Succession planting
- Water deeply in the morning and mulch to hold moisture.
- Pinch basil weekly so it keeps producing leaves, not flowers. Pinching basil
- Check tomatoes for blossom-end rot as fruit sets. Blossom-end rot fix
- Deadhead spent flowers to keep the blooms coming. Deadheading guide
- Inspect squash stems for vine borer damage. Vine borer prevention
Typical tasks for this time of year — timing varies by region and climate; check your local frost dates. Updated July 12, 2026.
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Buy once, buy right
Honest buying guides for the handful of tools that matter. We compare the specs and cut through the marketing claims, so you don't have to.
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Starting seeds in a dim room?
Which grow lights are worth it — and which specs are marketing noise.
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Choosing your first raised bed?
Depth matters more than material. How to pick one that fits your crops.
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Tired of hand-watering every evening?
Simple drip irrigation setups that pay for themselves in one dry spell.
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Kitchen scraps piling up?
Compact compost bins that actually work in small gardens.
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Start your first raised bed
One 4×8 bed can supply a surprising share of your summer vegetables. This is the exact order to do things in — each step links to the guide that covers it.
- Plan your bedStarter Pack
- Choose a bed
- Calculate soil
- Prepare the soil
- Choose crops
- Set up watering
- Prevent pests
- Harvest steadily
From the Almanac
The One-Bed Garden Starter Pack
A printable planning system for starting and managing one productive raised bed.
- A printable planning system — Plan the whole bed on paper — site, size, layout, and shopping list — before you spend a dollar.
- A soil-volume worksheet — The simple formula and conversion table that keep you from over-buying soil.
- 8 action cue cards — Postcard-size checklists to carry into the garden, from sowing to end-of-season cleanup.
$12 $18 launch price
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One short email at the start of each season: what to sow, what to prune, and what to fix before it costs you a harvest.
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