Sunday
Feb072010
Planting / Seed Starting / Harvest Target Date Workbook
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 3:42PM
I took a terrific spreadsheet that Johnny Select Seeds put together and offered up on their home page and added a little bit more to it.
I added a few more vegetables that they missed, a couple of usage notes on the first page and a harvest date tab to offer some guidance as to when things should be coming out of the garden and into your kitchen. Obviously using a model like this to predict the harvest is a little bit like trying to predict the weather - if you get close, you did all right.
The file is Excel and isn't exactly the most dynamic approach - you have to update things on each page... ideally, I'll get back to this and have a single page for the vegetables and then have the data dynamically sorted based on inputs on the first page... then again - Johnny Seeds saved me a lot of time with this jump start... and, uhh ohh... my leeks aren't started yet! :)
Take it or leave it - it's a slightly polished for my own usage tool (so I can plan crop timings for the CSA) - I think gives a little more information than the original. Maybe... but I'm biased!
Here it is - Planting / Seed Starting / Harvest Target Workbook
I added a few more vegetables that they missed, a couple of usage notes on the first page and a harvest date tab to offer some guidance as to when things should be coming out of the garden and into your kitchen. Obviously using a model like this to predict the harvest is a little bit like trying to predict the weather - if you get close, you did all right.
The file is Excel and isn't exactly the most dynamic approach - you have to update things on each page... ideally, I'll get back to this and have a single page for the vegetables and then have the data dynamically sorted based on inputs on the first page... then again - Johnny Seeds saved me a lot of time with this jump start... and, uhh ohh... my leeks aren't started yet! :)
Take it or leave it - it's a slightly polished for my own usage tool (so I can plan crop timings for the CSA) - I think gives a little more information than the original. Maybe... but I'm biased!
Here it is - Planting / Seed Starting / Harvest Target Workbook
Reader Comments (4)
Hello: Just a note to thank you for making your seed-starting plan available. I'm a fairly new vegetable gardener and I appreciate having this plan. Thank you.
No problem - I really hope it helps (and sorry it's so ugly) - I really need to give credit to Johnny Select Seeds... really - I just stood on their shoulders!
Tomatoes are always present as garden vegetables because they are easy to grow.-:`
I might argue that point just a little after the blight issue that hit just about everyone last year and the fact that so many people plant tomatoes but don't get decent yields off of them.