Fran's Victory Garden is evaluating Web Based Garden Planning Packages. I have started out Binging & Googleing "web based vegetable garden planner", learned right away to specify "vegetable ". With the responding wealth in websites I realized I might have a difficult time, there were a good number of planning packages. Where to start? By adding "reviews" to the query resulted with a starting point to enumerating the features of each package. As I read the Review websites, I will add to the following Features list. Later when I visit the sites, I will create a grid of Features.
Features:
- Web based. - required
- Vegetable focused. - required
- Shareable. - required
- Odd shaped plots. +
- App available.
- Succession Planting.
- Track Varieties.
- Garden Journal or Log.
- Ease of use.
- Help and Tutorials.
- Free Trial.
- Annual Fee
- Membership roles.
- Affiliate program.
The list of Review Websites is where I'll start familiarizing myself with the possibilities. I will work thru the list alphabeticly foot noting which web based sites are are being reviewed. When all the data is collected, I will look at each of the sites in desending order of number of time reviewed.
Review webpages:
- TreeHugger's "7 High-Tech Online Gardening Tools to Plan the Perfect Garden". reviews 1,2,3
- Dave's Garden. reviews 3
- Small Footprint Family. reviews 1,2,3
- Top Ten Reviews' Vegetable Garden Software Review. reviews 3,1
Web Based Garden Planning packages:
- GrowVeg.com reviewed by 1,3,4
- Gardener's Supply reviewed by 1,3
- PlanGarden.com reviewed by 1,2,3,4
The next step is comparison shopping.
. I will probably keep using this planter even though it does have a list of cons to put against the pros.