Summer 10: two beds, two harvest rhythms

Choose a first date before counting repeats

You are choosing between two twelve-plant plans on Summer 10. Both crops are listed for Summer, but they do not ask for the same wait. Strawberry needs six initial growth days, so its first date is Summer 16. Tomato needs ten, putting its first date on Summer 20. If the purpose of this planting is to have a calculated harvest by Summer 18, Strawberry meets that particular deadline and Tomato does not.

A different target can leave both options open. For a first harvest by Summer 20, both schedules qualify, although Strawberry begins four days sooner. Decide which date matters to you before using the number of rounds as a shortcut. The longer wait is a meaningful part of the Tomato plan even though Tomato will repeat afterward.

Then put the return visits beside each other

Strawberry repeats every three days after its first harvest: Summer 16, 19, 22, 25 and 28. Tomato repeats every four days: Summer 20, 24 and 28. The comparison below keeps the complete sequences visible. They share a final date, but Strawberry has two appointments before Tomato's first harvest.

• For a deadline before Summer 20, inspect the first date rather than the final round count.
• For planning visits to each bed, keep the three-day and four-day intervals separate.
• If both plans are used, Summer 28 is a shared appointment; the earlier dates still belong to different beds.

Do not swap the first wait and the repeat interval

A three-day repeat does not make a new Strawberry planting ready on Summer 13. Its first wait is six days. Likewise, a new Tomato planting on Summer 10 does not inherit the four-day rhythm of an established bed. Regrowth begins only after the first harvest in this calculation. This is why two repeat crops can feel quite different when you start them partway through the season.

The same distinction matters if you postpone sowing. Change the start in the linked plan and read the new sequence: you are moving the initial wait as well as every later appointment. A late start can lose a whole round when the next date passes 28. An unchanged repeat interval cannot recover that lost calendar space.

Make a timing choice, then choose the bed size

These cases use twelve plants each so the comparison holds quantity steady. Strawberry has five scheduled rounds and Tomato has three; those counts describe visits, not produce quantities or relative profit. Use the earlier first date, the return pattern and your own reason for growing each crop to make the choice. The dates assume normal fields, daily watering, no growth modifiers and harvest on maturity, through Summer 28 only.