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Has anyone developed a spreadsheet or use some sort of software that tells you when and how many plants to propagate and plant out at what interval?

I'm planning a large annual vegetable and cut flower raised bed garden using the square foot method and is trying to wrap my head around how I will plan all the planting.
 
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Oh Tom. That sounds like a worthy endeavour! I can't help, but it shouldn't be too difficult to come up with a theoretical spreadsheet - starting at the end point: areas, spacing, days to maturity and so on.
The trouble I find is that plants don't read books, so even sowing times never seem to apply to a specific situation. I'm trying to record my own timings better (this is the second year) so that I can learn for my situation what my sowing window might be. So last year I planted my broad beans direct on the 10th of April. That was pretty late though. This year I hope to stagger the sowing days and start maybe a month earlier and sow 2 weeks apart.
 
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Last year I went through my ridiculous stash of seeds and sorted out what I was going to plant.

I threw them into an Evernote table and looked up and added when/where each should be started, with detailed instructions.  I printed it out so it was in my seed-starting area and highlighted what needed to be done first (in the absence of a sort by date function).  Then I tried to follow my schedule.

Then life happened and everything failed.  But!  I think I'll try again this year, and fingers crossed for no Life Happening.

It looked something like this:

Seeds, where and when to plant

Last frost date May 1-10, say 15
Eisheiligen May 11-15
Early spring is probably Feb

English NameGerman NameStart inside dateConditionsFinished (check when done)Plant outside dateLocationFinished (check when done)Harvest DateYieldNotes
Goat's beardWald-GeißbartN/AN/AN/ANow, pots, moist compost, barely coverWest hedgeApril/May future years Aruncus dioicus, 2m high, treat like asparagus


 
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