Grow your Own
Successional Cropping
Avoid gluts and famines of vegetables that cannot be stored such as lettuce by sowing a small amount of seeds every few weeks.
Another way to get a succession of crops is to choose varieties that mature at different times. Potatoes for example, are classified into First Earlies, Second Earlies and Main Crop, and within these groups some varieties produce potatoes sooner than others. Alternatively purchase pre-mixed packs of seeds that offer crops with differing harvest times.
The same principle is true of fruit. You can choose different varieties of strawberries to enable you to harvest fruit from early summer through to autumn. This applies to apples, raspberries and many other fruit.
