The ultimate Crop Plan spreadsheet tool is Pivot Tables. I’ve mentioned them before and I’m sure I’ll mention them again. Pivot Tables let you turn a spreadsheet full of columns and data into a simple schedule or calendar that is easy to read and easy to share. Here are the basic steps 1️⃣ Highlight all … More fsa tip #73 – Crop Plan: Pivot Tables
Each row in your crop plan spreadsheet should be a distinct planting. A distinct planting means 1 variety planted on the same date. If you plant a lot of varieties and have a lot of succession plantings, you’ll wind up with a bunch of rows. This definitely has the chance to get messy. But if … More fsa tip #72 – Crop Plan: one row equals one planting
Chicory stamens are pretty stunning. I love that deep blue that contrasts with the lighter blue of the petals. We’ve taken to trellising chicory plants to keep them from flopping around while we wait for the seed to mature. My next free online workshop is on Thursday July 28 at 2pm Eastern …
While you’re waiting for new Seed Grower’s episodes, I thought I would share some seed episodes from other podcasts. First up is the June 30 episode from Cultivating Place: The Generosity & Mutual Care Of Seeds: Ken Greene Of Hudson Valley Seed Company. I loved this conversation about K’s journey to find out where seed … More Farmer Podcast Club – Hudson Valley Seed co on Cultivating Places
Yesterday was the first garlic harvest of the year from our home garden. And as usual, the earliest garlic was Stella. This garlic is named after my grandma Stella who grew it in her garden. My grandma had only been growing the garlic for 10 years or so when she gave it to me. She … More Harvesting my grandma’s garlic!
One of the simplest things you can do to improve your spreadsheets is to never mix Numbers and Text in the same spreadsheet cells. This is the #2 of 5 spreadsheet concepts that I think you should be using in your crop planning. In this tip I’ll walk you through why TEXT and NUMBERS are … More fsa tip #71 – Never Mix Numbers & Text In Your CROP PLAN
We’ve been harvesting green onion seeds. These green onions are in the species Allium fistulosum. They overwintered outdoors in mini tunnels under a couple of feet of snow. We want flowers that have at least 50% mature seed showing The seed team walks the bed looking at each flower and chooses those with black seeds. … More Harvesting green onion seeds
What inspired you from season 1 of the Seed Growers Podcast? Here are all the seed growers featured in season 1 of the Seed Growers podcast: • Adrianna Moreno and Joelene Jebbia of Empowered Flowers • Marie-Claude Comeau of Ferme La Radicule • Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm • Annie Jesperson and Nathaniel Talbot of … More The complete Seed Growers Podcast season 1 lineup
Is this an exciting lettuce? This is an F2 population of Jericho Romaine lettuce crossed with Deer Tongue lettuce. What that means is that last year, I found one strange plant in our Jericho lettuce planting. In this case strange meant that it looked different from the other plants. And it didn”t look like any … More Jericho x Deer Tongue lettuce breeding
How do you label and schedule the plantings in your field? Do you work with dates or with week numbers? For my next spreadsheet tips, I’m going to be revisiting 5 spreadsheet concepts that I think you should be using in your crop planning. Concept 1 – use Week Numbers!!!! If you use the formula … More fsa tip #70 – Three ways to use Week Numbers in your crop plan
Going to Seed with Dan Brisebois 