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I go through phases of gardening passion and during one of those phases a couple of years ago I asked my family to buy for my birthday a software program relating to the planting and planning of one’s garden. They did just that and bought for me Garden Composer. I used it a lot when it was first installed on my computer, but when my computer was later upgraded I hadn’t gotten around to re-installing it - until I went to the Garden Show a few weeks ago and then I realised I should be using the program again.

It is great because I can look up various plants and check the time of year for planting, how to deal with different pests and diseases and a number of other things. You can even design your garden with the program. My family claim I’m just a software addict and perhaps that is true :-). This time round I printed off the user guide and bound it, and included inside the front clear plastic cover, a large copy of the ornamental vegetable garden I show in an earlier post of this blog.

I’ve been doing some research online as well to find various things to assist with my gardening. And as I find more, the blogroll will be added to. One thing I found to be really good is Better Health’s Planting Calendar. It tells you which food plants can be planted at various times of the year and gives you tips for each month too. You can download the calendar to write on and use. I printed it off and it’s been put inside the book I made from the program above so I’m compiling a lot of useful information about our own garden. KMT

Garden Composer, Planting calendar, food plants, gardening