making spreadsheet is boring.

[janeyo]

Glad it's not my full-time job!

Am putting all my seeds in one with sowing, use by dates etc on as I know many of you do already. I am not the world's best pc whizz and it's so Dull!

[Finedon.Dandy]

Well if I could remember where La-La land was I could perhaps come and help you. Its so much easier if someone reads the info and another types it in. I could email you my template if you havent gone too far?

[janeyo]

ooh a template would be brill. I keep getting distracted so not got very far at all.

[allotmentlady]

did u see the spreadsheet template on the forum? vegging out i think u can adjust it for yourself, saved me time.

[BrideXIII]

i did my trials one at the weekend, had to break it up into bits or i would have screamed, data input is the most boring thing in the world, and to think i used to do it for a living

i have it nice and simple, species , moon phase, date sown, date germinated, date transplanted, first crop.
i may add a column in for date put in real ground

so far its mostly chillies and early toms etc, going to be manic when i really start planting.

[zazen999]

I started using a database that one grape has on his website - and it is very good - but I prefer pen and paper in the long run. You can't doodle with spreadsheets, and I like looking at my old crossings out.

I started a new book tonight - I'll use the old one for recipes and seed packets [I cut them up and stick them in the book so that I can refer back to them] but for dates etc I'm using a new squared paper hardback book I bought a few weeks back. I can take it to the lottie with me and have pages on different types of crops with sowing, harvesting dates etc.

I compute too much as it is...

[scarey55]

I think I'm a saddo then - I love em

[NOG]

Anyone got a link to either the template for the spreadsheet or database.

[Alison]

I put all my seeds on a spreadsheet last year on a rainy Sunday, just type (carrot, cabbage etc), group (root, brassica etc), name of variety, number of seeds (admitedly some of these just said "loads" and then added the number I intended to plant and when and the date I actually sowed. Then another column for progress ie "planted 2 trays of root trainers in conservatory" or "direct sowed two rows" including when they came through, when transplanted etc. Was very easy to keep upto date after the original effort and then this year I already had some of the info inputted for seeds that I'd only used part of the packet. Sounds a bit geeky but very useful for me.

[tootles]

I don't have a database - I just like to root through my boxes and scribble with my stubby pencil.

[Jameslovell]

I'm with you Scarey55. I really enjoy messing around with spreadsheets. I work with them all day at work, so I get to learn loads of fun this you cna do with them.

That does make me sounds really boring, but I'm not really, at least I hope not. LOL.

[Finedon.Dandy]

This is a list of the columns I have in my spreadsheet with a note of why etc!


Seed i.e. Cabbage
Variety i.e Greyhound
From i.e. Kings - so I know where to get more if I want
Sow by i.e. to encourage me to use the oldest seed up first
Packet if open or not
Sow from I have two colums here so I can include earliest and then latest
Sow to ditto
Plant wether to plant in or out
Crop from same as sowing date colums
Crop to ditto
Site Grid ref on plot plan so I knew all types of seed had been ploted
Notes i.e. Plant firmly (brassicas), Plant in damp weather (Celery) etc


If anyone wants me to email me my copy then please PM me. I sent it to Janeyo today, I am sure she will advise if its any good or not.

[zazen999]

database was from pdblake's website.

[lynda66]

flippin heck, have enough problem remembering to write plant labels never mind doing a spread sheet ...... i might be a bit too lazy for such intense efficiency.

[MaureenHall]

I've got a spreadsheet too A worksheet for each month, columns for Flowers, Vegetables, Herbs, when sown, when germinated, when pricked out, when planted out, when flowered or harvested. Hopefully it'll be some use to me next year!