Five Tips for Getting Started With the Vegetable Garden Planner

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In the past few weeks, I have used the new Vegetable Garden Planner to design and tweak several garden plans, and here’s the truth: This software does for organic garden planning what tax software does for filing one’s income taxes. (For more information on what the Garden Planner can do, see Vegetable Garden Planner – Design Your Best Garden Ever.) I am a convert, and I have a few tips to help get you off to a good start.

1. Watch the instructional videos. They are short and quite entertaining. Then start experimenting.

2. Include edges when defining your garden’s size. A larger grid displays better on the screen, and edges are important gardening work space anyway. You can go back and resize any garden using the “Plan Size & Grid” button (ruler icon). Use the “Settings” button (gray tool icon) to delete a plan. Start over if you make a mess.

3. Use the mouse to drag out rows or block plantings rather than popping in individual plants one click at a time. Doing so shows you how many plants are likely to fit into the available space, and simplifies keeping track of varieties and succession planting.

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