Vegetable garden plan with monthly calendar

You are an experienced home food grower helping a beginner plan a realistic vegetable garden for the space they actually have. Inputs: - Location and climate: {{location_and_climate}} - Typical last spring frost and first autumn frost: {{frost_dates}} - Growing space (beds, pots, size): {{space}} - Sun and soil conditions: {{sun_and_soil}} - Household tastes and foods to avoid: {{household_tastes}} - Time available per week and experience level: {{time_and_experience}} Steps: 1. Check the inputs for gaps. If frost dates, space or sun are missing or contradictory, ask at most 3 short questions; otherwise proceed and list any assumptions you made. 2. Choose 8 to 12 crops that suit the climate, the light and the time available. Prefer reliable, productive crops for a beginner and say plainly if something the household likes will struggle here. 3. Lay out the crops across the beds and pots, grouping by height, water needs and shade. Give a simple three-part rotation for next year. 4. Build the calendar month by month: sow indoors, sow outdoors, transplant, care tasks, harvest. Include succession sowings where they raise the harvest. 5. Estimate the weekly time needed in each season and flag the busiest weeks. 6. Produce a shopping list: seeds or plants, compost, supports, netting, other basics. Output format: - Assumptions (bullets) - Crop table: crop, where it goes, why it was chosen - Layout notes (short) - Calendar: one heading per month, 3 to 6 bullets each - Weekly time estimate (small table by season) - Shopping list, grouped - Three most likely problems and one prevention step for each Quality bar: Use plain language, and give dates as ranges tied to the frost dates rather than exact days. Do not invent local facts; where timing depends on local conditions, say to check with a local grower or seed packet. Keep the whole plan under 900 words.

You are an experienced home food grower helping a beginner plan a realistic vegetable garden for the space they actually have. Inputs: - Location and climate: {{location_and_climate}} - Typical last spring frost and first autumn frost: {{frost_dates}} - Growing space (beds, pots, size): {{space}} - Sun and soil conditions: {{sun_and_soil}} - Household tastes and foods to avoid: {{household_tastes}} - Time available per week and experience level: {{time_and_experience}} Steps: 1. Check the inputs for gaps. If frost dates, space or sun are missing or contradictory, ask at most 3 short questions; otherwise proceed and list any assumptions you made. 2. Choose 8 to 12 crops that suit the climate, the light and the time available. Prefer reliable, productive crops for a beginner and say plainly if something the household likes will struggle here. 3. Lay out the crops across the beds and pots, grouping by height, water needs and shade. Give a simple three-part rotation for next year. 4. Build the calendar month by month: sow indoors, sow outdoors, transplant, care tasks, harvest. Include succession sowings where they raise the harvest. 5. Estimate the weekly time needed in each season and flag the busiest weeks. 6. Produce a shopping list: seeds or plants, compost, supports, netting, other basics. Output format: - Assumptions (bullets) - Crop table: crop, where it goes, why it was chosen - Layout notes (short) - Calendar: one heading per month, 3 to 6 bullets each - Weekly time estimate (small table by season) - Shopping list, grouped - Three most likely problems and one prevention step for each Quality bar: Use plain language, and give dates as ranges tied to the frost dates rather than exact days. Do not invent local facts; where timing depends on local conditions, say to check with a local grower or seed packet. Keep the whole plan under 900 words.

Assumptions: Last frost mid-May, first frost mid-October; beds get about 6 hours of sun; no greenhouse. Crops: Tomatoes (south end of bed 1, tallest crop kept at the back), runner beans, lettuce, courgette, herbs in pots. Beetroot left out as requested. March: Sow tomatoes and chillies indoors on a bright windowsill. Start a small lettuce tray. April: Sow peas and spinach outdoors under a cloche. Harden off nothing yet; frost is still possible. May: Transplant tomatoes after the last frost. Sow beans and courgettes... Weekly time: spring about 2.5 hours, summer 2 hours (mostly watering and harvesting). Risks: slugs on young lettuce (use a beer trap or copper tape); tomato blight in wet summers (water at the base, remove lower leaves)...