Re: garden planning

I'm a list person and love to graph things. Since this is my first
garden at this home and it's been so long since I grew any good
amount of veggies I graphed up my available space.  I wanted to get
an idea of how much seed I would need, how many feet or count of
plants I would need to feed my family of four (found a great chart in
Seed Blum's catalog for that one) how much I might want to put up, 
some for saving seed (timing can be very important for preventing
cross pollination) for rotating crops and I hope to note what came up
when...

Then I got really silly and cut out ''island'' forms of my desired
crops moving them onto the graph paper so as to leaving me desired 
path and bed space.  Decide were I want to add needed trellising, 
tall plants, plants that tolerate some shade, those that need full
sun, ones that need more water closer to my water source... course 
I re-graphed and re-graphed (rather an obsessive hobby of mine).
Just now I planted peas, spinach and radish... just kind of in the 
first available spot...  :-P  (I did use my graph map as a
reference.)

So did it do me any good ? Lest in my mind and I did resist many 
very neat seeds varieties that saved my pocket book and garden space.
I'm also keeping a notebook of all the great hints I get off this
list.  I've begun noting when I started seed indoors, when they came 
up, ect....  kind of a science project.. (I home-schooled my children
for 12 years, now I'm the only student..) next year should be far 
simpler, right..! 

Surely it could be done as I did in the old days, at random.  
Back then I didn't rotate crops, plan for harvest, or start my own 
plants.... making harvest less desirable and had to give up on 
potatoes and melons all together, yet the food I did get was yummy.

Sincerely,       
~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
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