Succession planting without the guesswork

A single big planting gives you a glut and then nothing. Successions — the same crop sown at a fixed interval — spread that harvest across weeks so you always have stems or produce coming, without drowning in them for one week.

Typical intervals run one to three weeks depending on the crop. Single-stem sunflowers might go every 10–14 days; branching types stretch to three weeks.

The mistake growers make is planting successions too late. Every round needs enough time to mature and yield before the first fall frost. Counting back from frost by the crop’s days to maturity — plus one interval as breathing room — gives you a latest-planting cutoff.

The planner flags any round that lands past that cutoff, so you stop planting when the season, not your enthusiasm, says to.