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Re: Planting Spreadsheets

Posted: Wed 19-Jan-2022, 09:37
by PeasIntheRain
Trina wrote: Wed 19-Jan-2022, 06:38 I am in zone 5. I am only 3 years in to veggie gardening. I don’t see that I can do a large amount of succession gardening. I am surrounded by a cedar forest as well so I believe my sunlight is restricted to 6 hours a day from May to September.
Any guidance is appreciated.
High five for cedar-surrounded shady gardening! ;) I'm learning how to work in a light-limited situation too, and keeping the native forest around is really important. I hope you love the cedars.

I think the concept of succession still works even if on a shorter timescale. In zone 2b where I grew up, the idea of relay cropping worked even in little ways: like planting radishes and parsnips in the same row, the radishes 'mark the row' and are harvested before the parsnips start to take on any size. Gardening was only realistic for just over 4 months between thaw and freeze-up, but that is still enough time to have two crops of carrots and some other vegetables, timed a bit apart.

I'm also finding that transplanting is a much bigger part of gardening in zones 5 and up, especially in areas where seedlings are vulnerable to excess moisture and slugs. So rather than planting the whole garden in a weekend, all crop types, it works better to plant (inside or outdoors) different crops in succession. It helps me to think of 'March inside start brussels sprouts', 'April outside sow parsley' as succession.

I'd love to hear from you what you find to be successful in your shady spot. Do you have any luck with beans or cowpeas?

Re: Planting Spreadsheets

Posted: Fri 21-Jan-2022, 18:20
by Marianne
That's great Chris.Thanks. I just emailed Dan to ask for this.Did you do one for the seeding schedule as well. If not, no worries. Just thought I'd ask.

Now that I'm getting the hang of how the forum works, I'm going to try to post instructions on making a scale drawing for those folks who don't know how to do that.
cheers,
Marianne on Salt Spring

Re: Planting Spreadsheets

Posted: Sun 23-Jan-2022, 20:05
by CeeJay
Thank you Jack.

Re: Planting Spreadsheets

Posted: Mon 24-Jan-2022, 19:14
by CoastRichard
@Peasintherain and I collaborated offline on a seed planting calendar. Can be setup with your starting date, frost dates. Filtered, etc.
Here is the link to a Google sheets version
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
and I think this link will allow you to create your own copy
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... FkJcU/copy

I can also post or pass along the Excel version I built.
Gardener feedback welcome!

Re: Planting Spreadsheets

Posted: Tue 25-Jan-2022, 20:03
by Lindsaywilkins6
Wow, @coastrichard & @peasintherain amazing job on this spreadsheet! Thanks for sharing!