Garden Layouts

[Filthyphil]

I was wondering if anyone uses a computer program to plan their garden or do you prefer paper and pencil sketches, or do you look at the area and make a mental sketch, or do you just plain know where everythings gonna go?

[Smoky]

Pencil and paper, erase...change that....move that....more of these....ooops no beans, ok that's gotta go...all winter long ;D

[DM]

I pretty much know where things are going to go year to year... It's not so hard, i plant as to what we like and use the most of, and rotate my crops from year to year...

DM

[humbug]

I have both...I don't feel the computer program is any better than a pencil and paper. I keep a garden journal. I use it for seed start dates, planting dates, weather conditions, crop rotations, problems with disease and bugs, yields and my first and last frosts. This helps me more than anything. I can take the journal right out to the garden with me.

[bookwormom]

I prefer pencil and paper. but then I wind up playing it by ear and getting carried away. ;)

[GrannySueD_in_IL]

Pencil and paper, erase...change that....move that....more of these....ooops no beans, ok that's gotta go...all winter long ;D

I'm with Smoky - I go through more erasers every year than seeds, lol

[Smoky]

http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/
This might help you with lay-out.

[leera]

I spent $5.00 on one of those computer programs for gardening............all it tells me is that my garden space is too small to grow anything.......HA!!!!!!!

I don't really plan much.....other than the tomatoes go on the end oposite the squash so the squash can't take over........

My planters end up being whatever I decide to take a chance and see what grows.........

Here's a small tour for those who haven't seen the pics. yet........

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/leera/100_0821_00.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/leera/100_0776.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/leera/100_0342.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/leera/100_0362.jpg

[DM]

Nice garden pictures Leera,

By the end of the season i'm glad the garden is gone! Then in the winter i'm wishing i could start another one... ha ha ha Happens every year that way!

DM