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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost AT riseup.net>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:56:06 -0600


The problem with garden software is the same old problem with all software:
GIGO. That is, garbage in, garbage out. In all cases, we have to know what
parameters to input or we get nonsense out of it. In the garden there are
far too many variables, such as space available, soil moisture retention,
time from planting to harvest, season extension techniques, how much of
each crop we want, how much loss we expect, how much time we have to devote
to each task, whether we mulch or use raised beds or tractor rows,
variations in crop varieties maturing time, and on and on. Too much is just
subjective. For example: I'm experienced and I drew up a plan for double
cropping this year, growing two different things in the same beds one right
after another. Several factors combined to defeat the plan. In another year
it would have been partially successful. If you don't know all the
characteristics of each crop you plant, then guesswork will throw off the
final plan, whether it's on the computer or scratch pad.

Now some software might make certain assumptions for you. But you may not
want those assumptions, and that would limit its usefulness. For example,
it has you planting in tractor rows rather than intensively in beds. Or it
assumes 20 to 30 inches of normal rainfall, or it assumes you have time to
do everything exactly when it needs to be done. Or you have at least six
months frost free. More than likely you use it at your own risk.
paul tradingpost AT lobo.net

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>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:58:52 -0500
>From: "mcoldiron" <mcoldiron AT crcom.net>
>Subject: [Market-farming] Garden Layout Software
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>Can anyone here recommend a good, fairly high level, garden
>planning/layout
>software package? I need to visually plan and layout several plots that
>are
>constantly changing in content, size, and spacing. One with directional
>and
>elevation contour mapping would also be helpful.
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>Thanks for the help.
>TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
>West Texas Zone 7b
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