Garden planning software

I thought I might start a thread specifically to list the URLs of free or very cheap gardening planning software. (Moderators, please move this to another section if this isn't the right place.)

www.gardeners.com Free - Good square foot method - good list of veggies, but few herbs or flowers

http://rs881.rapidshare.comrapidshare.com/files/366032742/Garden_Layout.xls Free - Excellent Excel file but very limited selection

http://myfolia.com/about/garden-planner?gclid=CMOnzaKByqACFRBM5QodYClRaw Free - Good for keeping a journal of plantings/ progress/ and harvest, but doesn't provide a grid garden that I could find.

http://cdmplanning.hypermart.net/ $5.00- Interesting slide chart for determining planting and harvesting dates. Not a grid planner.

http://www.plangarden.com/ 45 day free trial-$36.00 for 3 years thereafter. Very extensive list of veggies and herbs and flexible garden arrangements. No flowers I could find.

http://www.growveg.com/Default.aspx 30 day free trial - $25 year thereafter -- looks like an extensive program with many features but too expensive for me

I hope others might chime in and list URLs for other garden planning sites that are compatible with SFG. From what I've found, I'm sticking to gardeners.com and will just write in plants not listed.

BUMP Gardner's Supply Planner

Here's my favorite site. After you make your plan and click on
"Generate My Detailed Plan....." you get a complete plan with numbers of crops per square and when to start/plant them.
You can print it out for your reference.

http://www.gardeners.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Gardeners-Site/default/Page-KitchenGardenDesigner

LOL, Quiltbea, we posted the same link, what is it they say about great minds?

I just had the most fun planning a SFG! I'm a visual type person and this is heaven to me!

I don't know if my poor old brain can hold all of the info I'm putting in it!!

Betty

P.S. - Quiltbea and Camprn, I used your link.

I am a third generation rice farmer, but had very little time to be tending to a garden. My grandfather was very talented at growing vegetables in his garden. We raised everything you could imagine, including sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, turnips, sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes. We had so many sweet potatoes that we could not even donate them any more.

Bump

Stickyfiable? (Is that a word?)

I use plangarden, and they do have flowers, they are just hidden in the veggies, all one file to add things. I personally love it!!!

thanks for posting that info. That really helps and makes it so much more visual on paper. I used the gardeners.com and really liked it. You can make the beds like yours (unless you have an unusual design). Very helpful, thanks for posting.

When I downloaded:

[http://rs881.rapidshare.com/files/366032742/Garden_Layout.xls Free - Excellent Excel file but very limited selection]

I got a spyware error from McAfee. Is anyone having any problems with this XL file?

I really like the functionality of www.plangarden.com for the logs etc ... you can track garden tasks, harvest amounts etc ... I also love www.growveg.com/gardenplanner for the SFG planning - they include qty per square in their planner and give planting/transplant/harvest estimates based on your own individual frost dates by zip code as well as succession planting, but no logs etc ... If only some tech and programming SFGardener out there could come up with a combination fo the two I would love you forever

PlanGarden is working on all of that as I type, I got an email the other day about all of this. PlanGarden does currently have an estimated harvest date, I wrote those down on my paper copy. I agree I love the log, I keep track in my binder on paper, then transfer to log on a rainy or slow or no-plant day.

I got the email and accidentally deleted it. I know they added the SFG grid, but I didn't know that they were planning on adding the "per plot", sucession planting or the recommended planting dates. If so I am glad I chose to sub with then instead of one of the others

They do have a planning date, it's under the when to plant tab on the left, took me a bit to find it too.