{"product_id":"vegetable-garden-planner-spreadsheet","title":"Vegetable Garden Planner Spreadsheet","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis garden planner works out your whole sowing year from one date: when your frosts usually end. It is for vegetable growers with a kitchen garden, allotment or homestead plot who are tired of turning \"eight weeks before the last frost\" into dates by hand every spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease read:\u003c\/strong\u003e This is a tracker tool only, not financial, tax, legal, medical or any other professional advice or advisory service. It records and calculates what you enter; you are solely responsible for checking all figures, rates, dates and results and for every decision you make. By purchasing, downloading or using it, you accept these terms (your statutory consumer rights are not affected).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA planting schedule that counts from your frost date\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eSowing advice is written in weeks: start tomatoes eight weeks before your last frost, put beans out two weeks after it. The Sowing Calendar turns that into dates for your garden, from the single date on Setup. A late spring is one cell to change, not an afternoon of retyping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSow indoors on, sow outside on and picking from, worked out for every crop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat to do this fortnight for each crop: sow indoors now, sow outside now, not yet, growing on or picking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe weeks against each crop are general advice you can overwrite with your own numbers, and everything downstream follows them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBeds that remember last year\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eType last year's plant family against each bed once, such as brassicas, legumes, roots or nightshades. The file compares it with what you have actually planted this year, through each crop's family, and flags a repeat. Growing the same family in the same bed year after year is how clubroot gets into brassicas, and it is the crop rotation mistake a busy spring makes without noticing. In the demo, two beds are flagged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDid the garden pay for itself?\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe harvest tracker prices everything you picked at what the same thing costs in your local shop, and sets it against seed and compost. The demo spent 324 and picked 1,342 worth, about 4.15 back for every 1 spent. The file is clear that this is not profit, since it does not count your time, water or tools, but it is a number you can actually check.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlantings: 120 planting rows for successional sowings, with picking-from dates, picks, weight and worth for each\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarvest Log: room for 400 picks, priced at your own shop prices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCosts: seed and compost against what you picked, and the return per unit spent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorth picked per bed, per crop and per month\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharts that redraw from your own season, not static pictures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ten connected tabs are Start Here, Setup, Crops, Sowing Calendar, Plantings, Harvest Log, Beds, Costs, Monthly and Dashboard. The Crops tab doubles as a simple seed tracker for what you grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWorks with\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicrosoft Excel 2016 or later, on Windows or Mac\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoogle Sheets with a free Google account. The Google Sheets version is a real workbook, not a PDF with a link in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo dynamic arrays, no macros and no add-ins, so it behaves the same on Excel 2016, 2019, 2021 and Microsoft 365 and in LibreOffice. No Microsoft 365 subscription is required.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo subscription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat you download\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Excel files: a demo season of 24 crops across six beds and a greenhouse with 229 picks logged, and a blank one for your own garden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe instruction guide, which has one-click links to the Google Sheets versions (filled and blank)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe terms of use as a PDF\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour files are ready to download as soon as payment clears. Questions before or after you buy? Use our contact page and we will help.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFrequently asked questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDoes it work in Excel or Google Sheets?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth. The Excel files run on Excel 2016 or later on Windows or Mac, and the instruction guide has one-click links to the Google Sheets versions for a free Google account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow does it work out my sowing dates?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou enter your usual last frost date on Setup. Each crop's sowing and picking dates are counted in weeks from it, so changing that one date moves the whole calendar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDoes it help with crop rotation?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes. You record last year's plant family for each bed, and the Beds tab flags any bed where you have planted the same family again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCan I plant the same crop several times a season?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes. The Plantings tab has 120 rows, so successional sowings each get their own line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAre the sowing weeks right for my area?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are general advice, not a prescription for your plot. Overwrite them with your own numbers and everything else follows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OPXVIA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67597865713758,"sku":"OPX-099","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/2094\/6782\/files\/vegetable-garden-planner-spreadsheet-01.jpg?v=1790832495","url":"https:\/\/opxviashop.com\/products\/vegetable-garden-planner-spreadsheet","provider":"OPXVIA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}