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Re: Planting Schedule Posters & Software

That's a tall order for any developer. My software is designed to be a
garden journal, not a seed planner. Although there is a program call 'The
Seeds Program' by CyberNiche software which has the ability to create a
planting schedule. I have never used it so I cannot make any comments as to
its capabilities.
The idea of having a virtual representation of your beds is something I
started working on and then dropped the idea because it didn't tie in well
with the garden journal software I wrote. If there is enough interest then
I'll pick it up again.
Frost Dates, Companion Planting tips are just ideas on the planning table
right now.
The ability to enter specific plant data is already in my software. Each
seed can have up to 32 pages of data entered into the notes section along
with days to germination, days to harvest and days to seed in the designated
fields. This is where I store all of the historical data about the heirloom
seeds I grow.
Expected yields and yield tracking are a bit tricky because yields will vary
from location to location. No two sites are the same. The only way to
calculate this is to have an expected yield field which would give the yield
by each plant (or by each square).

So if the square foot community wants specific software, I'm listening.

Kurt McCullum
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-----Original Message-----
From: A.G. Pitsilos <agp@FAST.NET>
To: sqft@lists.umsl.edu <sqft@lists.umsl.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 6:14 AM
Subject: Planting Schedule Posters & Software


>You know those outdoor planting schedule for spring and summer crops and
>planting schedule for a continuous harvest tables in the book? If that
>table were available as a poster or even better as one of those dry
>erase type posters. That way I could plan my seed starting a little
>easier.
>
>Also, will someone please create Square Foot Software. I have a pretty
>large square foot garden 4 4'x35' beds plus 8 4'x4' squares. I would pay
>$$ for software that would:
>
>Allow me to layout my garden so I had a virtual representation of my
>beds.
>Fill each sqare foot with plants - automatically spaced properly.
>Tell me how many plants I will need given how I have filled the garden.
>Imput Frost Free and First Frost Dates and give me planting and
>transplanting dates.
>Input Specific data from my plant varieties to give me days to harvest.
>Keep track of fertilization schedules by plant variety
>
>Additional features
>
>Companion Planting tips
>Expected yields given what is planted
>Yield Tracking
>3 year tracking of what was planted where
>Reverse planning - I need 25 pounds of radishes weekly starting on this
>date...when do I plant, will that work with the frost free date for my
>area. etc.
>
>I would be thrilled with a basic version and a more advanced version for
>market or restaurant gardeners!! I'm toying with the idea of trying to
>at least subsidize the purchase of some 1000w grow lights and selling
>the results to restaurants or selling heirloom seedlings. I've got lots
>of space to start seeds (18'x75') indoors.
>
>Any software developers out there?
>
>
>
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