Vegetable Garden Planner Review: Sonya Dunham

Sonya’s Garden Story

We are in the piedmont of South Carolina, zone 7b, with clay soil that I heavily amend with compost. My garden is on a slope. Two years ago it was just part of the grassy yard. I gardened it one year using hay bales and tons of compost mulch to make terraces, then this last year I built permanent garden bed terraces. I consider it a terraced potager/no-dig/intensive/mixed planting garden experiment with lots of homemade compost and lots of flowers throughout.

Oh my goodness, I love the Garden Planner. It has been so useful (and fun!). For being this garden’s first year I’ve been delighted with how well it did, and I surely learned a lot too when things didn’t work. I planned the garden layout over the winter, then I would adjust the plan and add notes in the Journal as the season progressed. It works so well and I’ve recommended it to others.

I especially love being able to set the months for succession planting through the seasons and that there are links to plant information and editable notes. I also like being able to label specific varieties.

Sonya’s Garden Plan

In my plan, I tend to plant intensively (closer together than recommended) and some plants may be shown on top of each other that really are growing at different time of the season. Here’s a link to the full plan.

The Results! Photographs of the Garden

(South Carolina)

My pictures are from April (when I had just finished building the garden), May, June, July (almost overgrown) and Nov (kale and asian greens and cabbages are in!).

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