Best Tools For Planning Your Garden

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This Week’s Focus: Tools To Help Plan Your Garden Or Homestead (I don’t make anything if you click on the links, these are here for you to explore)
This Might Suit Your Fancy: Links to helpful products
Where The Roots Meet The Soil: Tools used by backyard gardeners, planning tools for homesteads and those you can use for both!
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🐝 This Might Suit Your Fancy

Consumer Rights Wiki - report or find products & services that have been gated post purchase or made to fail so you have to spend more.
FULU Story On Wired, Freedom from Unethical Limits on Users (FULU), sets repair bounties on consumer products where the manufacturers have deployed unethical, sneaky user limitations.
Right To Repair Laws, a growing number of states are working on laws that prevent manufacturers from forcing you to pay unnecessary/unreasonable amounts to use what you paid for. Take the time to research to see if that includes your state. I haven’t found one site that’s gathering these yet.

🎙️Where The Roots Meet The Soil

Why Should You Plan What Your Going To Grow?

Why not just keep growing the same thing in the same place year after year, right? Well because that could be bad, for two big reasons.

First reason, it gives the soil in that spot a break from the nutrient demands of that kind of plant. Tomatoes for example are Nitrogen beasts, and those nutrients need to be put back in the soil. You can do that by add fertilizer, worm castings, etc.

Second reason, is the pests that love that family of plants will often lay eggs in the soil that can’t be picked out OR will eventually make it to those plants and dive in. Case in point, a Master Gardener I know was growing tomatoes in her greenhouse for years and they were all wiped out by the “bad” nematodes.

If she had practiced crop rotation with other families of plants, she would not have had to dig out all the affected soil, torn down all her gorgeous (but dying) tomato plants and thrown it all away.

A great tool should help you keep track of what you’ve planted and where. I haven’t tried these tools, but will and will post individual reviews and link to all of those on my blog. I wanted a combined list for everyone to use. Don’t see yours? Let me know!

🔖Gardenary: Spreadsheet Based Tool With Workshop - Free with Sign Up

Promises to help you know your exact dates for planting no matter where you live. Free when you sign up for the workshop.

🔖Garden Guide: Website Tool - Free To Use

Looks user friendly, there is even a garden math tool that helps with figuring out watering, fertilizer and soil.

🔖Seedtime.us - For Gardens or Small Farms

This was highly recommended by a homesteader that I subscribe to and this is the one I want to try first. Let me know what you think if you’ve tried it already.