For those of you who are beginning to design this year’s garden, there is a new tool out there that you really should consider. Mother Earth News has come out with an on-line garden planner. You can design your garden at this site, as well as access information on everything from frost dates for your zone to crop rotation suggestions to seed spacing recommendations. This thing will even send you an e-mail to remind you that it’s the proper time to plant your tomato seedlings.
Their garden planner looks great, is user friendly and is receiving glowing reports. That said I’m afraid that I have to withhold my full recommendation of this tool. It missed one of my most basic and highest level criteria: it has to be free or it has to be really cheap. Preferably free because I often pass on stuff even when it’s really cheap.
While the first 30 days are a free trial period, after that time continued access would cost you $25 for a year ($40 if you sign up for two years). I’m using it for 30 days to design my new herb garden and a couple of other projects. After that it’s back to the pad of paper and a pencil for this tightwad Scotsman.
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