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Re: Garden Planning Software Update

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

AG,

I'm sorry that I missed the beginning of this thread, but I am a
programmer and since I just bought a house I am getting ready to set
up my square foot garden. I usually work with manufacturing software,
which requires scheduling. (I think gardening is a lot like
manufacturing in these respects) I was starting to think of what kind
of software I could write to help me do this stuff and that's why your
thread interests me. I was thinking of writing something that would be
able to present the time lines as a gantt chart, kind of like in MS
Project. It would also be able to suggest the next thing to be planted
in a free square, keep detailed notes on each planting and allow you
to refer to them later, etc, etc.

What other things would people find useful in this type of software?

Zane Appel
Hand Made Software
San Jose, CA

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:13:52 -0500, "A.G. Pitsilos" <agp@fast.net>
wrote:

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>
>I contacted the people who wrote Sprout! and they say they would have to
>start from scratch and it would cost them about $90,000 to develope
>something and they don't see the demand at this time.
>
>I played around with the software and in it's current form, it's a toy
>not a useful planning tool but the idea is in the direction I'm looking
>for.
>
>I'm back to my idea of overlaying garden planning on a timeline engine
>like MS Project. I wish I knew somebody who could write a serious
>program to both plan the timeline and layout of a garden as well as
>record weather data from a weather station on site and incorporate a
>journal for notes. I've seen various bits and pieces in different
>programs.
>
>How about farming software? They get pretty sophisticated. Maybe a
>dumbed down version. All I seem to find there is stuff for 100,000 acres
>farms using GPS data. That's the other extreme.
>
>Programmers, if I were gonna write something myself, what language would
>be best? Visual Basic, C++, I'll learn it if I can write what I want
>here.
>
>Any thoughts on the topic anyone?
>
>Thanks,
>
>AG
>
>
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