Individual beds - not raised, just pathed in Excel...

I use Excel, but only because I'm familiar with it and it makes it easy to "draw" my plot to scale, re-size and move the different crops around using "text boxes", add notes/planting dates and so on.

Each year I just copy the previous year's worksheet and start again, so I now have a 10 year record of what I grew where, when and how well, and I always know where to find it (as long as I don't forget to keep a backup copy!) 

I use: http://www.growveg.com/Default.aspx

My plans for next year: http://www.growveg.com/garden-plan.aspx?p=180640

I do mine in Word ,I find it much easier to use.I have done this for 5yrs now and save the plans ,so I know where thinks have been grown for the last 5yrs,

I've been using MS Visio for a couple of years, nice looking results but without the intelligence or easy compatibility of Excel...

that looks useful, Jayg, I never thought of using Excel like that. What does F/S mean? And did you really sow turnips out in Feb? I thought they couldn't be sown before March.

Ah! F/S = "first show" (i.e. when they first appeared.)

I presume you are looking at "Golden Globe" which are shallots rather than turnips!

I'm on my fourth year of doing this and have taken it one stage further.

Year 1 crops grown in that bed were in black.
Year 2 were in red
Year 3 were in blue
and next year, year 4, are in green.

Once I have the hang of this dang crop rotation malarky I can do away with the colour coding, but I didn't really know what I was doing the first couple of years so just wanted to make sure I didn't grow the same stuff twice.

Now I realise that this spreadsheet/raised beds has taken all the strain out of it and things just move on 3 beds every year as they're all in the right order to do this.

Just one of the ways to occupy myself when the weather's too horrible to get out and play in the mud.