When a garden bed looks depleted, it can be hard to know what to plant next or how to make each planting count. This self-paced digital eBook guides you from observing one bed’s sunlight, water movement, existing plants, and visible soil conditions to choosing plantings with clear roles, including biomass, nitrogen fixation, living cover, and food production. Across six chapters—A Bed, Read in Place; Every Planting Has a Job; Which Plants Fit This Bed?; The Season on One Map; Plant, Watch, and Make Room; and Next Season Starts in the Notes—you’ll build a bed-specific sequence for the growing season, plan around local conditions and timing, and track observations to guide future choices. Use the Bed Observation Sheet and Season Planting Map to organize your decisions, reduce gaps between plantings, and balance soil-building goals with the food you want to grow. Designed for gardeners who want a practical planting plan rather than a repeated fertilizer schedule, this guide helps you work from what you observe in your own bed.