wow... you did really hard work... that's what I am working on this weekend... the dates so I can start specially the tomatoes... but I have tons of gardens planed that will depend on good plants specially they need to be a good size... oh the joy of planning!!!

One thing I never mastered: how do you connect the planning to the doing?

All it tells me is by how much I've procrastinated.

How do you-all adjust "the rules" to your own climate and circumstances?
You learn what usually works most years and move on. Mother Nature doesn't live by rules. Just when you think you have it figured out, she throws you a curve ball. You adopt plan B which you make up on the spot. Trial and error. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. Weather is the key element of the process that you can never control.

Karen

yeah some years I am setting stuff out the first week of June.. sometimes May... might be earlier this year .. just never know

RickCorey said:I seem to need your permission to read it - or so Google Docs tells me.

I'm not sure Rick as it was set to share. I'll have to go check it. With the google privacy changing on March 1st, I had changed my settings I'm wondering if that created a problem with the google docs.

I've been working with the gurus of microsoft excel (Microsoft help site) to figure out the issue with missing or incorrect data coming in from the second worksheet and they found the problem but now working on a formula to fix the names list on the second page. So the worksheet is a "work in progress". Just like my garden is a WIP.

For seed starting, I keep the "norm" of what they advise for pre-starting seeds. As someone said, you just never know what mother nature will throw at us each year. With the way the echinaceas seedlings are growing it may be July before they reach an inch

oh Rick, I am with you!!!! I start so well, I plan and then something happens and I go and do something else...I am trying really hard to do be a good gardener... the worse is that I do too much sometimes... but in all I still love trying it...

I have learned a lot this year... with you guys here and also looking at some of my old magazines... goodness gracious I have a good supply...

I am going to have to get lights... some of my seeds are not germinating and I think they need light... oh well...

Rick: It should be viewable. The setting did change but I got it back to where I had it before.....hopefully.

Thanks, Julia!

Either that solved it, or trying from home avoided our paranoid IT department, or both. It popped open in Google Docs right away, and I was able to download it as an "Open Office" spreadsheet.

On my PC, I edited the frost date, and all the start dates chnaged.

Thank you!

RickCorey said:Thanks, Julia!

Either that solved it, or trying from home avoided our paranoid IT department, or both. It popped open in Google Docs right away, and I was able to download it as an "Open Office" spreadsheet.

On my PC, I edited the frost date, and all the start dates chnaged.

Thank you!

Remember, it is a WIP One of the issues I had was getting data to come in from the Plant List Sheet (second worksheet) correctly into the first worksheet. I just figured out to "TRIM" the name cells to eliminate the spaces so both names match and from what I'm seeing on my computer copy today, it looks like it fixed the problem I was having. I'll update the google doc perhaps tomorrow. So just a warning, double check the data appearing on the main worksheet. I'm sure your a guru on this stuff from my looking at the word docs you did. Nice job.

I'm an Excel dummy. but I do play with Word tables a lot. I wanted to make verbose labels for 2"x3" seed packets, but I didn't wnat to use fonts smaller than 10 point. So I learned to print double-sided so that cells in tables on both sides of the page "lined up"..

Well, it's easier to slip the labels into the 2" wide Ziplock if its no more than 1.7" wide. And sometimes I make labels for tomato seeds or other seeds, that I keep in 1.5"x1.5" Ziplocks. So sometimes I use 9 or 8 point font.

But Excel formulas and dates are always a struggle!

you are good.. love those!!

Thanks!

When I'm splitting up a batches of seeds into many Ziplocks, I print a whole page (or more) of labels for each variety. I think I've figured out the minimum number of mouse-clicks and keystrokes to copy-paste in bulk.

Having access to a laser printer is great. That's so much more crisp than inkjet that even 7 point font is readable. I may have to hold it agaisnt my nose and squant, but even that is easier to read than my handwriting!