It’s Christmas time and I wanted to give my readers a special gift. I know that it’s a bit cold and wintery to be thinking about a garden but it’s my favorite way to beat the winter blues. I start thinking about what I want to grow in the garden and searching seed catalogs in January and especially this year when vegetable prices are so high. I was surprised to see how many vegetables I could start to plant on March 1st.
Garden Planner
This spreadsheet will help you determine when to plant which vegetables. You just enter the estimated last frost date for your area and it automatically calculates the dates that you should plant each vegetable. You can find your last frost date at your local extension office or you can check here for more general dates by states.
automated Garden Planner
Click here for the garden-planner Spreadsheet.
How Much Do I Need?
When I start purchasing seed for the garden, I am never really sure how much to buy or plant . I still have bean seeds from 3 years ago and luckily they still seem to germinate. I bought enough to feed the entire county. This automated spreadsheet makes it easy to estimate how much you really need. You simply plug in the number of people in your family and it will tell you how many 10 ft rows that you need to plant and how many ounces of seed or seedlings to buy.
How Much To Plant
Click here for the how-much-to-plant Spreadsheet
I hope that these spreadsheets will help you to start planning your garden and that they will save you money in the coming year. Merry Christmas to all!
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Tags: frugal living, gardening, Homesteading
What a sweet gift!
Thanks soooo much!
January is when I dig in with the seed catalogs and dream up my next garden addition – this will come in handy! Thanks again!
Thats really a good one, we not need to think more, a ready made plan is in front of us.
Great post! Thank you
This is awesome! Thanks so much! My husband and I are considering our own garden, but weren’t sure where to start. Finding these was a real blessing!
For some reason they only open in read only mode. I appreciate it, though!
Melanie, Open them and then do a Save As. That way you can change them any way you like.