Recently we have been tweaking the plan for next years spring garden. It looks like we will need to increase the seed starting to do about 500 seedlings per month. Bulb onions will be the first thing to plant – October starts for Jan transplant, followed by January starts and Febuary transplants of green onions, lettuce and the cruciferous vegetables (cabbages etc). Most of that is harvested in April / May. The later garden gets Febuary starts and March transplants of squash, peppers, melons and tomatoes, as well as direct seeds of things like peas and carrots. After that most crops (beans, corn, etc) are directly seeded into the garden. One of the techniques we practice is succession planting. Rather than trying to fight various pests and diseases you plant another crop a few weeks after the first one. If there are problems with the first planting you just plow it under and use the second crop.
Stanley