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Re: Garden Planning Software Update

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

Good suggestion. Maybe a "recommend" function when you are planning to
plant a new square. It could recommend something based on the location
of the square(kind of sun, whether it will block the sun of something
else) , what was planted there previously, etc.

I've also gotten a few other ideas from others. Some have suggested
that I could include advice about how to do the sq ft gardening. I
think I will leave the advice about how to grow the plants, etc to the
people who are more knowledgeable than I am but I will have a function
that will allow you to collect your own notes and search them later.
That way you could create your own repository of tips and useful
information.

Does anyone else have anything they would like to see?

Zane Appel
Hand Made Software
San Jose, CA

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:22:22 -0600, "Melissa Wise" <mwise@simreal.com>
wrote:

>Hi Zane,
>
>For me, I'd be very intrested in companion planting. What goes well next to.....in the empty square?
>
>Melissa
>
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>On 12/13/98, at 6:38 PM, Zane@HandMadeSoftware.com wrote: 
>
>>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:
>>
>>>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>>>
>>>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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