Vegetable calendar

[TrialAndError]

Has anyone tried this online veg calendar?

Create your own fruit and vegetable growing calendar

On the face of it seems excellent because it not only adjusts itself to different areas of the UK but you can also select the crops you are growing so the calendar doesn't get crowded with stuff you aren't growing.

Any one got ideas for other online calendars (free!)?

[Jay-ell]

Thanks T,


Just ended up clicking on everything (they should have a select all button)

[Bigmallly]

Very good T&E, I've saved my selections.

[two brews]

Nice find Trialanderror thanks.

[Bren In Pots]

Thanks for the link TaE

[sparrow100]

It's a nice starter, but it's not a wide enough selection. There are more than 15 other types of veg and fruit that I grow as standard and which aren't included on the list. By the time there's been email to-ing and fro-ing and they are added to the listings I'll have done my own in Excel...

[spamvindaloo]

By the time there's been email to-ing and fro-ing and they are added to the listings I'll have done my own in Excel...

But on the plus side, everything that does get added will help the newbies like me who are just starting with an allotment for the first time and actually found it to be a really good tool.

We've got Kristen's sowing guide but I found the idea of a list of "this is everything you need to do for the first year whilst you get used to growing your own veg" to be kind of awesome.

[sparrow100]

Fair enough. The OP first flagged the site up just over a year ago, so I would have assumed the selection to have grown more widely since then. Or maybe tomatillos, salsify, cape gooseberries etc are all still fairly exotic. I dunno.

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1194331

[TrialAndError]

I counted 35 different veg on the list which seems to include most, agreed not all, of the veg that most of us grow. But what this calendar has that no other has is that you can customise it to your area. After all, any calendar that claims to be universal is surely mistaken. Planting out tomatoes on the south coast is not relvant to someone in the depths of northern derbyshire and vice versa. The dates for that activity are several weeks different. I have a northern type climate where i live and sometimes wish that the bias towards the more populated southern parts of the uk was not imposed on me.

[bearded bloke]

But what this calendar has that no other has is that you can customise it to your area.

I just had a look at my nearest location ...

Start chitting seed potatoes during the third week of February 2015 in the Wolverhampton area.

Now examine the towns below, each of which is in a different zone, and you will see that the date for chitting potatoes is different dependant on which zone the town is in.

St Austell - zone 1 - the third week of January 2015.

Bude - zone 2 - the first week of February 2015.

Worcester - zone 3 - the third week of February 2015.

Manchester - zone 4 - the first week of March 2015.

Buxton - zone 5 - the second week of March 2015.