Photo Credit: -tiko-
I doubt I really need to go into details because once you click the link and download the Chart, you'll see all you want to know about it, but allow me to praise it's merits just a bit...
• Custom feature allows you to enter your own last frost date
• Twenty five vegetables and three herbs are charted
• Direct sow and seed starting dates are included
• An early and late option is listed for each
• The growth period is given so you know about how long until harvest
• There is a separate column for dates to set out plants
• A planting date is included for items you started by seed (both early and late options)
The only thing this doesn't do is give me a date to sow a second harvest. Okay... I guess I can work a little and figure that one out. It should be pretty obvious from all the information given on the chart. Can you tell that I just want someone to tell me "do it on this date"?
I believe a big thanks is in order to Gayla Trail and Maggie Wang who developed this chart. Give them a big shout out and leave a comment here!
Thank you for the garden chart, so exciting to plan the gardens and won't be long before starting those seeds indoors.
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying your blog pages, thank you for the information you share.
Added your button on my blog and hope my followers will join in your Homestead Revival,yeah!
tc linda
I'm posting this on my Facebook page, how totally cool is that????
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Kelly
How fun! It's always a bit of a nightmare trying to estimate those dates.
ReplyDeleteHooray! I can't wait to try this out! My seeds should be arriving from Baker Creek any day (www.rareseeds.com) I've already started making newspaper pots, so I will be good to go. Here in Vegas, I usually start planting as early as the second week of February...so strange, I know. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI just found the You Grow Girl book from the library. Good basic stuff:) And I was just about to start doing the calendar flipping too so I'm super excited about this! The last piece is: Can you tell me when the last frost date was here so I don't have to do the leg work to find out?
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Jennifer
Jennifer, I use May 15th, but some people go so far as to wait until June 1.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I will surely use this! Thank you Gail and Maggie! And you too, Amy, for sharing.
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yeah!!! spring is springing! so exciting. If you are interested i am hosting Cottage Flora Thursdays - a place where other gardeners can share / view cottage flowers & landscape! hope you can make it...that chart is fabulous!!! thank you! xoox
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great find! We gardeners all seem to struggle with planting dates.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever see Clyde's Garden Planner?
http://cdmplanning.hypermart.net/
This is a low tech little planner that has worked well for me. You slide the planner to the correct date for your area and it points to the correct planting dates for many kinds of veggies.
Flip the planner over and put in your first fall frost and it will calculate your fall plantings too!
Gina
Thanks for the chart! I have been looking for something like this.
ReplyDelete@ Jennifer - Usually people use the May 15th date but last year we had a late frost so my plan this year is to have some kind of covering system in place. I was thinking of making hoops.
Thanks Gayla and Maggie for this chart :):)
ReplyDeleteAMy, thanks for sharing all of this wonderful stuff. I was just reflecting lately how thankful I am for all of this great information that people like you share with us ladies :) :) Thanks.
Oh, love your blogger header. I was wondering if you could tell me you you created the collage? It's nice and I"m thinking about changing the header on my blog :) :)
Have a great rest of the week. Love and hugs from Oregon, Heather :)
What a great tool! Thanks for sharing and thanks to the creators!
ReplyDeleteGina, I've seen the Clyde's planting chart and have added it to my seed order this year - I want to have a back up! Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteI just was reading through your blog, my favorite Sunday blog to read, and saw my name! Since it's only 5:55am I couldn't shout "HEY AMY USED MY NAME!" but my goosebumps were dancing! Thank you for the 'shout out'. I'm glad your other followers are enjoying the seed starting excel chart as well. I'm planning on using it again next month during my Seed Starting Workshop. I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands in the dirt again!
By the way... I started reading one of your recommended books.. "The Power of the Praying Wife" on Tuesday while flying to Atlanta.. Felt especially nice being in the clouds and reading that book.. :)
I live high in the mountains of Colorado at approximately 9500 feet. I am having a horrible time finding out what I can grow here effectively with such a short growing season and such unpredictable weather. Do you have any sites or know of any bloggers that have the same set of circumstances?
ReplyDeleteWhat zone are you in Lori? I'm at 4000 feet with a short growing season and supposedly a zone 7, but my microclimate is more like a 5 or 6 at times and I think THAT is difficult. I can only imagine how hard it would be in your situation. However, there are things you can grow. This year I selected my seeds carefully for the shorter growing season and cool weather crops. Those that are warm weather crops, I made sure the seeds were for the shortest season possible and I plan to use season extenders as much as possible. I know this isn't much help and you're probably already doing these things, but I'm not aware of a particular site that would be geared specifically for a situation like yours.
DeleteThere's no link in your post but I found it here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.yougrowgirl.com/2006/03/31/the-lazy-gardeners-seed-starting-chart/
Love your blog by the way!
Thanks so much! Glad you are liking the blog. I double checked and the link was working when I tried again. There may have been a glitch. Happens with the internet from time to time. I'll keep checking periodically though. Thanks for letting me know!
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