John has kindly allowed me to make this request:
I've seen quite a few "What should I sow now ..." and "When will it be ready?" type questions.
This year, for the first time, I have been keeping detailed records of my own What / When
To that end I have made an Excel spreadsheet which shows:
- Type of crop (grouped by "Type" so that things in the same Rotation are together)
- Name - e.g. Lettuce
- Variety - e.g. Webbs Wonderful
- Date Sown
- Germinated on
- Planted out on
- First harvest
- Last harvest (helps to know when the ground becomes available)
It also has an example for each type of crop, together with colour coded columns month-by-month showing when to sow / plant / harvest (like you get on the back of Suttons seed packets). I'll attach a little picture to give you an example.
If any of you folks would like a copy you are welcome - please click the
icon to send me a PM -
please be sure to include your Email address . All I would ask is that you send it back to me periodically, as you fill it in, so that I can collate all the information (as best as I can!) and post it here.
Hopefully it will make a useful resource for folk coming along next year to be able to gauge what-when ...
If you are able to help by recording your crops please send me a private message and I'll send you the spreadsheet. Don't forget to include your email address please (it isn't possible to attach files to PMs on the forum). I only have an Excel version I'm afraid!
P.S. If you already have crop history data in an electronic form that would be very helpful too. My day job is working with computer data, so there is a fair chance I will be able to import it into my spreadsheet - and you'd be welcome to a copy in return.