The Perma Life

This spring and summer I experimented with my first real garden but I miscalculated how many plants I needed to reliably feed 2 people. I also want to avoid the problem of suddenly having 20 pounds of squash that I have to unload on other people or watch rot. So I have been doing a little research and trying to find the following:

1. How many plants do you need to put in the ground at a time to feed 2 people?

2. How (and when) should you plant successively to have a continuous harvest throughout the growing season?

My Square Foot Gardening Book has some good guides that I can use based on average first and last frost dates, but what I really want is some sort of mega spreadsheet that I can use to plan and track harvest, etc.

I spent almost an entire day looking for a template of some sort because I am not very good at creating spreadsheets.

I found a great one at www.golocavore.com - here is the link to the page where you can download an excel or numbers version of the planner. It looks a little complicated at first, but read the guide that goes along with it and it will make sense. I have modified mine to include a page for planned and actual as well as a page for tracking garden journal info and plant info for what I am planning to grow. I’ll post my version when I finish it, but in the meantime have fun with this one – and check out the entire www.golocavore.com site- it is really great.