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Garden Plot Planner
Twelve pages tracking eight named crops in fixed columns, thirty squared pages for the rest of the plot, and four for looking back at how a season actually went.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 60
- Leaves
- 30
- Sheets
- 15
- Signatures
- 3 × 20pp
- Spine
- 3.43 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- graph
- Ruling pitch
- 4.94 mm · 14.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 35
Eight crops get their own column: chilli, tomato, long bean, spinach, cucumber, aubergine, sweetcorn, basil. Twelve pages run the tracker across them, a check for each visit, so a gap in the cucumber column shows itself at a glance instead of staying a memory you are not sure you trust.
Thirty squared pages follow for whatever a fixed column will not hold: a sowing date, a pest that showed up uninvited, a sketch of where a new bed should go. Four reflection pages sit apart at the back, for the season looked at as a whole rather than one crop at a time.
The book does not tell you when to sow or when to bring anything in. Frost dates and soil vary by plot, and the eight crops on the tracker are a fixed list precisely so the page stays usable from one year to the next, whatever grows there and whenever it goes in the ground.
What is inside
- Plot log
- 12pp
- Eight named crops tracked across fixed columns: chilli, tomato, long bean, spinach, cucumber, aubergine, sweetcorn, basil.
- Notes
- 30pp
- Squared pages for a sowing date, a pest, a sketch of a new bed.
- Reflection
- 4pp
- The season looked at as a whole, apart from the week-by-week tracker.
- Reference
- 14pp
- Owner details, unit conversions computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Asset and Maintenance PlannerWorks alongsideshares planning
- Cash Flow PlannerWorks alongsideshares planning
- Debt Payoff PlannerWorks alongsideshares planning
- Farm Season PlannerWorks alongsideshares planning
Questions
Which crops does the tracker cover?
Chilli, tomato, long bean, spinach, cucumber, aubergine, sweetcorn and basil, each with its own column.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 60 pages, 3.43 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. It starts whenever the growing year starts for you and does not expire at a fixed calendar date.
Does it tell me when to plant or harvest?
No. Those dates depend on your soil, your frost line and the plot itself, none of which a fixed printed page can know.
What ruling are the notes pages?
Squared, 4.94 mm, for sketches of the plot as much as writing.
In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins.
