It has been brought to my attention... that we kinda lose dates etc for when we're sowing, thinning, harvesting etc in all the veg blurb...

Sooo figured we could try, try, try to keep this as kinda um... Feb 16th I planted me toms, pull yer fingers out!

Cos I know some of you have a really hard time keeping on Topic...

"Dairy for sowing"? Why does soaking them in milk or rubbing them with butter help germination?

we kept on topic then

We didn't even last 30 secs...

I think we need a spreadsheet

I got one I used last year! Can e-mail it if people want to see how sad I was last winter........

oh pleeeease Icy Trying to get organised this year

send it to me too pleeeeeease Icy, ta muchly cos I's sad tooooooooo

Okay - here goes -

my Gardener's Delight toms say "sow indoors in January" .... like, now? .... or should I wait a bit seeing as I'm in the frozen n-n-n-n-n-north? Oh, and my sweetpeas say January too. Advice please, peeps.

my first lot of toms went in on 29th January last year, and some more on the 12th February....................

Nope Loopy get em in now - I did last year in January and was in the even frozener further North (this year sowed in December - but that's another story )

'kay. Ta. My job for tomorrow afternoon then... though Del's not a million miles away and knows the climate here! one lot tomorrow and one lot at month end, then. Sorted.

I have a spreadsheet too, with sowing, hardening off and planting out dates as well as comments on the variety, who sells them and the like.

I'm just a sad seedgeek sometimes.

moonbells

I'm not putting any toms in until March this year. Feb was too early this year and without a heated greenhouse or any south facing windows, twas a struggle to keep them from going leggy.

yup me too Ade. Says March on t'packets for outdoor uns

Now if we had a CALENDAR on here ... we could all do the same thing at then same time !!!

never Flo. Not in my lifetime

calendar.google.com

Looking at it now... as it's designed to be shareable.

moonbells

drat. Looks great but requires folk to have a gmail account first if they want to edit it. Though if one person wants to set it up to share, it's easy, but read-only for people without gmail. Or is it? hubby has managed it with his, so am attempting to find out how he did it.

OK peeps!
Google calendar faffing seems to have come up with something usable.

1) First person sets up a calendar.
2) they input the valid email address of someone they want to share it with and say that they would like that person to be invited
3) that person goes and creates a google account with *any email addy they like* though in a forum, some folk would no doubt be reticent about emails so there's nothing to stop you creating a gmail account just for the purpose, then ignoring it!
4) the second person searches for either the first person's email under other calendars, or the calendar name (if it was created as public!) and you can hook in. First person can give various admin privileges to second.

Security thoughts: best not have unlimited access as otherwise you're courting disaster from scriptkiddies and the like.
Would a few of us agree to be admins for a calendar of planting dates? I would think it would just mean typing in dates! A viewable calendar is easy to show publicly, without all and sundry having editing rights. I just found 21 allotments calendars on the web!

moonbells

ps any volunteers already with google accounts to beta test it, please pm me

Err how about as its only a spreadsheet file, I host it on my webspace, but can someone else co-ordinate it for me? If its kept in house I cant see it being too much load on my band width.