vegetable gardening

Early Spring Planting Schedule for Cold-Hardy Veggies

If you have ever stood at the garden bed in late winter, seed packets in hand, wondering if it is too early, this one is for you. Early spring planting is where a lot of the “I grew dinner!” magic begins, because many vegetables actually prefer cool weather. The trick is sowing them on purpose, on...

Succession Planting Calendar for Continuous Harvests

If you have ever harvested a glorious armful of lettuce for two weeks straight, then watched your bed turn into an empty patch of soil, you already understand why I love succession planting. Succession planting is simply sowing or transplanting crops in small batches, spaced out in time, so you get...

Fall Vegetable Garden Planting Calendar

Every fall I watch the garden do its little magic trick: the pests calm down, the nights cool off, and suddenly greens taste sweeter than they did all summer. The key is timing. A fall garden is not planted by the calendar month, but by your first expected frost date and your crops’ days to...

About Maggie O’Connell

Welcome to Veg Loom. If you’ve ever stared at a packet of seeds and thought, “I want this… but I have no idea where to start,” you’re exactly where you belong. I’m Maggie O’Connell, a lifelong gardener, a raised bed enthusiast, and the person who will absolutely stop mid-conversation to admire...

Calculate Frost Dates and Plan Seed Starting

If you have ever stared at a seed packet and thought, “Start indoors 6 to 8 weeks before last frost… okay, but when is that for me?”, you are in the right place. Frost dates are the backbone of a vegetable garden calendar. Once you pin down your average last spring frost and average first fall...