Posts Tagged ‘planting calendars’

Seeds ordered! Check.

Triumph.

We hit our first milestone of the year today.  All of the seeds for 2009 are ordered, paid for, done.  Check that off the list.

We order from Peaceful Valley (of course), and also from a handful of other companies.

The grand total was…a lot…let’s not talk about that now.

While planning for seeds, Logan and I made a detailed planting schedule to figure out the quantities we will need.  The last step in this chain is to place all of these successions on field maps - once that happens, we’ll be unstoppable!!!

That’s a far cry from last year, already.  Of course, we had a rough estimate of how much of what we would plant, but that changed a lot at planting time.  It was totally arbitrary because we didn’t know how much each of our markets would buy.  This year, we have a good idea how much of what we can sell in any given place (plus, we plan a tad optimistically).

It took a full 6 days of geeking out on the computers, side by side, to make the planting calendars and decide what, how much, and when we are going to grow everything (like I said, we only need to figure out WHERE it all goes now).

Choose your seeds carefully,

Andrew