March 2008

Gardening Online - Plan Your Garden at PlanGarden.com!

This didn't really fit any of my categories, but it's worth noting. A 45 Day no risk trial, $20/Yr or $36/3 Yrs, you can plan your garden online, share your plan with others, critique and share ideas. Great idea, but the 1 yr subscription should be lower, say $14.95. At $36 for three years, that's a dollar a month - not a bad price, but they'll have to prove themselves first IMHO, as $36 is a lot of seed, quite a bit of fertilizer, or a third of our weekly grocery bill.
The program is layed out very nicely, giving you grids for square foot gardening, start and transplant dates for veggies, harvest information and more. The interface is quite good, though I'd like to see the ability to move blocks of information around (say, grabbing the whole plot and moving it over, as I'm going to be rotating crops and moving each veggie's going to be a bit of a pain).

Hoping the best for this program, and hoping to find enough in my budget to utilize it this year. 4/3/08 - Update: I have to say, I like it. It grows on you (pardon the pun). Should be able to schedule my plantings easier than using the Excel Spreadsheets I've been accustomed to using.