I’m kind of known for my crudeness. In my natural environment I am foul and fourteen.
And many of the things I create are also crude.
This spreadsheet for example. I decided to quickly hash it out because I wanted some help deciding when to plant all kinds of things. Putting it in this format helped me and it may help you. Go ahead. Take it. Download it and use it at your own peril! It’s not fancy, but if you know excel you’ll be able to figure out how to customize it a bit or add some crop that I don’t have included. It’s got a northern bias. You may have a southern bias. Feel free to change it, but from my perspective the northern view is always more northerly.
I used a bunch of different sources for the frost date timings. Some came from vegetable books I’ve got, some came from online, but the sources are too numerous for me to properly cite. Without question the greatest inspiration though came from Skippy’s Vegetable Garden and her planting calendar. Hers is FAR easier to use and I recommend it over mine. The only thing you can do with mine that you can’t with hers is build in your own plants and your own timings.
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Great excel spread sheet, excellent planting plan , I’ve adjusted last frost date for my allotment in Essex, UK and will plant accordingly. I’ll keep you posted on the results!
Thank you Robert! Looking forward to seeing how your allotment goes.
thank you this is awesome, the detail of the organization is just what i needed. thank you for taking the time to do this and for sharing. Im planting in northwest ohio, hoping this helps me along the way
You are very welcome! I hope that it helps. You should seek to modify the formulas and timings to suite your zone, but it should work in general. I made several adjustments to the timings just based upon my own experience and they may not be perfect for you.
You are using your super powers of “Excelling” for good, I see. Thank you Dr. Evil…glad to see you’re turing over a new leaf. HA
Any use of Excel powers is automatically evil Sunspot!
Awesome calendar! Excel scares me, I’ve only been able to work it to figure out small business income and expenses so I’m in awe. Thanks =)
Thank you very much Amy! But Excel skills are not awe worthy… pretty sure I’ve seen your design work (your blog website and your business site for example) and that’s a far, far more impressive set of skills. Hope the spreadsheet comes in handy for you. Let me know if anything is wonky and i’ll fix it.
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I was just coming here to check out the calendar again and the link to it – http://www.totalmagic.com/garden/Garden.xls – is blocked by Google as a possible attack site. Just wanted to give you a heads up, hopefully it’s fixable!
whoa! thank you amy… i am checking it now. The site is actually a friend of mine’s. Thanks for the heads up.
New google doc link for now for the planting calendar…