Garden Planner Works Like A Slide Rule

Garden Planner Works Like A Slide Rule CROPS Miscellaneous Clyde Majerus used his industrial engineering skills to simplify his garden work and the result is a handy product that any gardener will appreciate Majerus invented Clyde’s Garden Planner in the 1990’s when he was attempting to time his garden workload so it wouldn’t interfere with the June birth of his third daughter The Planner is a slide chart that borrows on “time phasing” from the field of production planning for scheduling materials and parts in manufacturing Clyde’s chart uses a horizontal calendar to show the entire planting growing and harvest season at a glance By knowing the expected first-frost date for a particular geographic location a gardener can use the Planner to determine planting times for starting seeds indoors and for setting both plants and seeds outdoors in the garden It also provides expected harvest dates for 22 commonly grown garden vegetables The flip side of the Planner provides the same guidelines for planting a fall garden based on expected first-frost dates in the fall The chart also provides gardeners with the quantity of seed to plant per 10-ft row planting depths distance between rows and between plants sunlight requirements expected yield per 10-ft row and suggested companion plants for each vegetable type Majerus sells his Clyde’s Garden Planner slide chart online for $5 which includes shipping The Garden Planner has a sheet listing expected first-frost and last-frost dates for states/provinces and cities throughout the U S and Canada He also sells a small Clyde’s Garden Kit for $25 and a large one for $40 The small Garden Kit contains the slide chart along with 7 packets of vegetable seeds The large Garden Kit contains 3 slide charts and 12 packets of vegetable seeds Majerus says he recently began customizing the Garden Planner slide chart for garden-related organizations and companies to use as a promotional item and as a teaching tool The chart can be imprinted with a company or organization’s logo and contact information A smartphone version of the Garden Planner is available for $2 99 Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Clyde Majerus CDM Planning 23496 Andrew Road Grovespring Mo 65662 ph 417 589-3117; www clydesvegetableplantingchart com

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