This spreadsheet tip updates the spreadsheet from #57 That spreadsheet turned the weight of seed you wanted to harvest into how much bedfeet you needed to plant. But what if you know the seed count you want and not the seed weight? I’ve added in an average seeds per ounce column and now you can … More fsa tip #62 convert seed counts into seed weights
So you want to take garlic pre-orders? How much of your garlic should you sell while it’s still standing in the field? Today’s spreadsheet will help you figure out how much garlic you want to hold back to plant next year’s crops. And how much garlic you’ll have left to sell. There’s a safety factor … More fsa tip #61 how much garlic should you pre-sell?
This month’s spreadsheet tips are going to be about pre-selling your garlic. There are definitely a lot of considerations if you want to run a pre-order. How do you do this in your online store? How much should you charge? Is it risky? Will anyone buy in advance? But really the place to start is … More fsa tip #60 how much garlic is in your field?
And what varieties should you save for seed? You should start with varieties you’re already growing. And all of that information is already in your seed order. Add a column to your seed order to indicate if a crop is F1 or OP. Then filter to only see your OPs. These are the seeds you … More fsa tip #59 saving seed can start with your seed order
This started as a spreadsheet to show you how you can harvest a crop first as a vegetable and then let it go to seed and harvest the seed too. For leafy greens, this can often double the value of the crop or more. But then i realised that this spreadsheet worked just as well … More fsa tip #58 Stack harvests for more sales per bedft
You can crop plan for seed saving just like you plan for any other crop. All you need is the amount you want to harvest and a yield estimate. Just be careful – seed yields are a bit more variable than crop yields. (Variety also makes a big difference.) Of course, seed is not perishable … More fsa tip #57 How much should you grow for seed?
Isn’t crop planning sweet when you’ve got good yield data? And it’s extra sweet if that data is in the same units you use for your crop planning. (At the Farmer Spreadsheet Academy, that would be yields in bedfeet or bedmeter.) But what do you do if you find crop yields in other units? This … More fsa tip #56 Convert yields into bedfeet (or bedmeter)
You want to have the best tomatoes, right? You might suspect that there are better varieties out there but the thought of doing elaborate trials to evaluate these tomatoes is just exhausting. Here is a way to run a simple trial to discover new great tomatoes! It is based on how we run our tomato … More Discover Amazing Tomatoes By Setting Up Easy Growing Trials!
This is the fourth part of a series on crop planning for seed production. Seed production planning part 3 covered calculating how much to grow to meet your farm and marketing demands. The next step is choosing when to plant your seed crop to get a reliable seed harvest. (Most of this article was originally … More Plant Seed Crops on Time – Seed Production Planning Part 4
This is the third part of a series on crop planning for seed production. Seed production planning part 2 covered calculating how much seed to harvest to meet your farm and marketing demands. The next step is determining how many plants you need to grow to produce the amount of seed you need. We’ll look … More Seed Production Planning Part 3 – How Much To Grow