I’m in the midst of getting my planning done, 8 week starts need to get started next week for last frost at end of May.
This way I’ll know approximately how many seedlings to start and I can keep track of which ones we enjoy. With the layouts, it will allow me to keep track of crop rotations to minimize nutrient depletion. I most likely won’t do a round of cover crops though, I can always just throw some of my other nutrients to top up when needed.
Edit Link to the Libreoffice and Excel doc the file was just saved as excel format, so there is likely formatting issues. If the link reaches its limit send me a msg and I’ll make another.
Wow, that’s next level!
Thanks! On bed rest, so instead of dreaming about the garden, plan!
There’s quite a few open source projects doing good things to help the plotting and planning of caring for indoor and outdoor plants. Here’s two that are popular:
Damn, I’ll have to check those out, amazing what is hidden out there if you know the right key words.
Living in a tropical country is awesome, just take seeds, put them in soil and enjoy food the entire year; my plants are doing awesome, been using organic matter coming straight off my kitchen as compost for ages now, rarely see problems with nutrients.
Too hot!
I love the winter and winter sports, living a 3 hour drive from the Rockies has its advantages and disadvantages.
I’m gonna top up with top dressing or the places garden mix which is compost and soil. Only so much room and stuff I can do myself. Sometimes gotta spend the money.
Peppers, tomatoes, and kale seeds have been started indoors. Only the kale has sprouted so far, and the potting medium reintroduced fungus gnats to my house.
Awesome, I like doing preliminary work with paper from my drafting training, but with the Carpal Tunnel it’s easier to just hash it straight on the PC now.
The 4x8 beds, you giving each pepper/tomato 4 ft? Or is that 4 plants?
Your “spreadsheet” is definitely awesome.
The tomatoes and peppers each get a 2x2 ft area per plant which works well with the new plant cages I bought last year for the peppers and Roma tomatoes. This year I need to setup metal poles or something for the indeterminate tomatoes since last year’s attempt failed when we had some intense wind storms.
Well, that’s another unexpected use-case for Excel that is actually pretty cool. Would you mind sharing it as a template?
You mean Calc, since OP is using LibreOffice, as if they are not smart enough already.
💯
I was just too lazy to get the credit card to renew my office subscription…
Of course! I would have used word, but it doesn’t like tables and I’ve messed around with excel more more for inspection templates, so seemed a perfect aside.
Linky I’ve used Libreoffice, I’ve saved it as an Excel format as well, but I don’t know if the formatting transferred or not.
Thank you so much @SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
I actually planned on doing the same thing since the only alternative I could think of was mspaint for planning my garden rows in the fields.
Holy shit, I started with paint and gave up when you couldn’t just easily make grids. It’s like I want to color squares, I know I can do that in excel.
Got my maters started late. The $6 crate store soil blocker my wife picked up last year to try broke after the first use, so we are a little behind.
Thankfully, this year, a lot of what we are trying is direct sow or already fall planted / perennial. Still gotta start cukes, melons, and some other stuff though.
When starting a garden from scratch, one must first
git initMint is in the ground 👍
FYI mint can be an invasive species and very hard to kill.
It’s a rental and I’m being evicted 👌
Oh, well in that case may I interest you in some bamboo?
Maybe some kudzu while you’re at it.
I think they know and were making a funny ;)
squints…wait is that Excel?! You madman. Whatever works I guess. Looks really nice and organized as well.
Worse, libreoffices version. Thanks!
How did you learn your excel-foo?
My plan of killing a bunch of seeds has started. Planted these san marzano seeds that came in a purim bag my mother gave me, and those are now in a window with both the most light and least cat activity. Some will sprout, then just die outside from unknown reasons yet.
@SchmidtGenetics not THAT well, actually.
I’ve downloaded the farmer’s almanac planting calendar, but haven’t started applying that to my planting plan yet.
I’ve also ordered and received my seeds.
I used them for a bunch of my information. I tried using their garden planner… but uggh.
Yeah I optimistically download it nearly every year and then basically never look at it from May on. But each year I do it again because I want to get more organized and deliberate with my garden.
We have to cover crop here, otherwise the soil amendments just blow away, along with the topsoil. Northern edge of USDA zone 7, the wind has been brutal.
That’s fucking excel (equivalent)??
Let’s not assume every garden has the same Eurocentric seasonal variation on lemmy.
I’m mid season right now. Planting usually starts in October but our rain was super late this year.
Lots of weeding and trying to get my summer veggies started. I usually stop planting anything by June.
Gophers decimated most of my greens and peas, so I’m basically turning my vegetable garden into plant jail. Still have potatoes going they should be ready soon.
I also have friendly raccoons who love digging up my plants, tossing them aside to look for insects. They got so mad about my plant protectors last week I heard them fighting trying to break in.
That’s why I said “Garden progress” growmie, that included anyone from planning to harvest currently.
I’m also from Canada, so swing and miss buddy!
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