Garden Tracker is an iPhone app ($2.99) that lets gardeners create a garden map with the vegetables and herbs they want to plant. A nice feature is the link to videos that offer how-to gardening tips. This app can be customized to your region, with a list of tasks for when to plant, transplant, and harvest many kinds of vegetables and herbs.
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Garden Time Planner by Burpee is another free app for gardeners who’d like to be reminded of what to do next in the garden. You can select a pre-planned garden or create one with the colorful veggie drag-and-drop tool. The Garden Minder from Gardener’s Supply (free) is a garden planning tool for online, mobile and tablet gardeners. Each of these garden planning tools is designed specifically for growing vegetables and herbs. Of course there are now bushels of online, mobile and tablet tools for gardeners who want to let their fingers do the planning. The planner includes plant profile sheets, seed and plant purchase lists, gardening how-to’s and to-do’s, check sheets, calendar sheets, and pages to scribble down observations and reflections. This downloadable planner is sure to keep even the most disorganized gardener on track. One of the most complete garden planning tools I’ve run across is the Garden Planner & Journal ($16) by Erica Strauss of Northwest Edible Life. The planner is also available as a mobile app ($1.99). Clyde Majerus of Grovespring, Mo., designed a handy slide chart that shows when to plant 22 edibles for spring and fall gardens ($5). Write the dates for planting each vegetable and herb with Clyde’s Garden Planner. A simple method is to draw a layout of your garden space on plain or graph paper and then fill in the blanks. Many gardeners like to plot before they plant. Select an assortment of the vegetables and herbs you like to eat and carefully follow the planting and care instructions. Most seed packets include details about the vegetable variety, whether to start seeds inside or plant them in the garden, when to plant, how far apart to plant and the number of days until harvest. Seed packets and catalog descriptions are great garden planning tools, because they provide much of the information you need to make your kitchen garden a delicious success. Here are some garden planning tools to get you started. The quiet of winter is the perfect time to look at your blank canvas and plan your next vegetable masterwork. When planted with the right combination of colors and textures, this once barren spot will become a thing of beauty. And for a more permanent planting of soft fruit bushes, try this Currant Collection to plant Redcurrants, Blackcurrants and Whitecurrants in your plot.In January the empty vegetable bed sits like a blank canvas, just waiting to be transformed into an edible masterpiece.Planting this Strawberry Collection will give you fresh, sweet strawberries that taste like strawberries throughout the season with 3 varieties chosen for their early, mid and late season cropping. Soft fruit is by far the best value crop to grow in your kitchen garden.This Salad Leaves Collection includes 6 easy to grow lettuce varieties that will supply your kitchen for a whole season. There is no doubt that home-grown salads have more taste and are washed in less chemicals than the expensive bags of lettuce you can buy in the supermarkets.No vegetable garden is complete without onions and so try this Heat Treated Onion Collection for red and white onions that will store through the winter and can be eaten fresh too.This Brassica Collection gathers together 4 popular varieties for later in the season. Although it seems early to think about autumn and next winter’s crops, it’s time to think about sowing brassicas.A great gift idea for someone you know who might have taken on an allotment for the first time too! This Vegetables Collection Box contains all you need to get started with a selection of 6 crops.This Early Sowing Vegetables Collection brings you fresh veg for sowing earlier in the growing year so that you can get growing straight away!.
Mr Fothergill’s have put together a number of ‘collections’ to help guide you through this.
If you are new to the Grow Your Own revolution, you might be wondering what to grow in your first year in the vegetable plot. We also introduce you to our online Garden Planner to show you how it can help ease the vegetable plot planning process.
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In this video discover the heart of good garden planning and how to draw up the plans you require. Although the rains pour and the winds blow just recently – seemingly without let up – there’s always time to stick on the kettle and get planning for the upcoming season in the vegetable garden. A well planned vegetable garden is a productive vegetable garden.
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