Garden Planning Software (Free)

A screenshot of their preplanned "All American" garden

It's time to begin planning your garden and placing your seed orders.  I recently came across a marvelous website for those doing a square-foot garden.  It is really a great tool that I can't say enough about.  It lets you lay out your garden simply by dragging and dropping the crop to the square you wish to grow it in.  Then it tells you when and how to plant, plant spacings for a square-foot garden, when to harvest, and tips and tricks for that particular crop.  In addition to all of that, it has many very well put together preplanned gardens if you're unsure of where to put things or you just want it easy.

A screenshot example of instructions provided

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A couple of hints:

• Even when using the preplanned gardens, always rotate it so that the tallest plants are to the north and the shortest plants are to the south.
• Put the shade tolerant, moisture loving plants like lettuce to the north end of the garden.
• Once complete, print out your garden plans and use them!

I have never done business with this company, so I can't endorse them for buying supplies.  However, they are providing a valuable service to the community with this free gardening resource and were kind enough to allow me to use the screenshots above.  They also told me that they will be adding berry plantings to the online tool soon!  I added their blog to my blogroll on the right for my readers that are interested in that.

Here's the link:  http://www.gardeners.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Gardeners-Site/default/Page-KGPJS

Enjoy!