plotsField notes
Notes from the field, the greenhouse, and the back office.
The Cost of an Empty Bed: Planning Your Beds to Stay Full All Season
Walk your plot in the season and count beds with nothing in them. Each of those beds is still costing you. It's irrigated. It's weeded, or will need to be. The only thing it's not doing is earning.
By the PlotsFarm team
interplanting · 6 min
Hire the Marigolds: What Interplanting Actually Saves a Small Market Garden
A $3 packet of marigold seed. 6 squash plants protecting 100. The empty space between your crops is already irrigated, weeded, and paid for. Interplanting puts it to work — fewer pests, fewer sprays, more food off the same beds.
composting · 3 min
What the 2026 fertilizer crisis is teaching small growers about on-farm fertility.
Urea up 47%. Diesel up 46%. 70% of US farmers can't afford the fertilizer they need. What to do this season, this fall, and next year.
That's all the field notes for now.
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