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3rdragon ([personal profile] 3rdragon) wrote in [community profile] gardening2017-04-26 08:15 pm

Keeping track

How do you track what you have planted where, and what you want to plant where, and what you planted there last season?

As a kid I just did popsicle sticks with the name written on, but nowadays I have ambitions for crop rotation and record-keeping, and little sticks just aren't cutting it. We have a map, and a Google spreadsheet with when we planted stuff and how long it took to germinate*, but neither is an easy way to know if I should plant lettuce in this particular spot, or if kale would be a better choice this year.

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*I didn't make it -- a friend of mine gave me a copy of hers, and I just put stuff in boxes.
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[personal profile] cesy 2017-04-28 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Growstuff does the tracking side, but won't show particular locations in that level of detail yet. It's useful to share the data of how long things take to grow, though, to help other small farmers and hobbyists worldwide.