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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish
- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:27:54 -0500
Take a look at Dan Kaplan’s. I use
it as the base for my crop planning – everyone will do things a little
differently. I bought his as much for his data on his planting dates, amounts,
etc – to have a better starting point or a comparison with my projections
when I started the CSA. Before I used Kaplan’s, I did
primarily the calendar in Excel. I put weeks of the year across the top, then
date of the week (5/3, etc), crop, variety, seed or transplant, etc. I color
filled in the columns for avg last frost and first frost, beginning and end of
markets, high sales days, etc. Then coded the week to start seeds (g),
transplants (t), seed (s), and weeks of expected harvest (x). That allowed me
to visually see what should happen with successions. Of course, the actual
harvest dates didn’t coincide with planned, as a beginner it gave me a starting
place. As Allison mentioned, sort by the g, t, s, x, copy what you want that
week and paste it into another worksheet (because the way I did it you will get
all the g in date order, then all the s in date order, etc. The reason for
making harvest x is so that it comes at the end of sorting. I also used some
patterned fills, but that is a pain when copying and pasting the planting
to harvest intervals for successions – the patterned cells
don’t move. Same thing happens with the colored columns for frost and
markets. I can email you my old version.
Since Dan charges $25 for his, I won’t email you my version of his. Beth Spaugh Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com Garden fresh vegetables, organically
grown, and pastured chicken, duck, and geese "How we eat determines, to a
considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry "Without power over our food, any
notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe From:
market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wiediger, Alison We have done exactly that with a
spreadsheet. Actually, the first workbook of the
spreadsheet functions as our seed order - crop, variety, seedsman,
pkg size, days-to-maturity, price, etc. Once entered, it can be updated
for the next year, and can be sorted by seedsman for doing online
ordering. Then, the second workbook copies over crop, variety, DTM, and
adds, seed or transplant, date to seed, date actually seeded, date to
transplant, date actually transplanted, number of plants or row feet needed,
size of cell for transplant, figures expected first harvest, entry
for actual first harvest, figures actual DTM and variance from entered DTM. And
some other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head. For a given crop, say
squash, insert lines for how many plantings you will make and copy the static
info into them, then add your planting dates for each one. Really cool data! Over time, it will
really help us to fine tune planting dates for OUR PARTICULAR FARM - which of
course differs from catalog dates. Also, it helps us with actually
harvest days in fall - which is very different from summer - even for the same
variety. I have to admit we don't
do as good a job of entering the data during the middle of the busiest season,
but it still helps a lot. It is also a fabulous help when we are seeding
all those transplants in the spring - just sort by seeding date, print it off,
and you have your work list for that day. Ditto transplanting - although
weather often throws a wrench into those! Give it a try! If I can develop one,
you can too - I am NOT a power spreadsheet user. We will be using the
template for the 3rd season this year and the data becomes more valuable
with each season. Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm From:
market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland Greetings to all, I'd like to have a calendar (software) that would allow me to enter
varietal names and a small amount of additional info. (like whether hybrid,
organic, etc.) with planting dates and expected days to maturity. My
vision is then that the calendar would automatically generate expected harvest
dates (perhaps with choice of graphic display) and so be a good tool for: 1.
estimating market readiness, 2. projecting holes in cash flow and therefore
when we need to plant various additional crops to fill in gaps and 3. figuring
how far off our maturity times are from stated times to allow better planning
in future. Does anybody have or know of anything like this? If so, is it
actually worth the data entry time? (I am aware of the adage "Be
careful what you wish for...") Thanks! Best wishes, Karen Roots
Farm Organic
Produce Fruits, Roots,
Vegetables & Herbs 767-449-3038 |
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[Market-farming] planting calendar wish,
Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland, 12/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish, Erik Lane, 12/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish,
Wiediger, Alison, 12/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish, Beth Spaugh, 12/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish,
BarbaraJ, 12/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish,
growbd, 12/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish, BarbaraJ, 12/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish,
Mike Rock, 12/08/2009
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[Market-farming] Row Direction in a High Tunnel,
jay sleichter, 12/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Row Direction in a High Tunnel, Beth Spaugh, 12/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Row Direction in a High Tunnel, Wiediger, Alison, 12/09/2009
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[Market-farming] Row Direction in a High Tunnel,
jay sleichter, 12/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish,
growbd, 12/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 12/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish, Erik Lane, 12/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] planting calendar wish, Dan, 12/08/2009
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