High-tech Gardening and an Interesting Idea

My beloved has spent much of the day working on the new gardening program thingie. Being a curious kind of person, I've spent much of the day peeking in to see what, exactly, he's doing and how it's being done. It looks like he's taking spreadsheet data and making input forms (planting, harvesting and removing plants to be precise) that will feed data back into the spreadsheet. I already had the information listed on when to plant and how long from planting till harvest from when I first picked up seed packets this spring, and this morning I added in how far apart plants need to be.

The data that I will eventually enter will let me know when to expect harvests, when to expect empty spaces to plant in, and hopefully, what should be planted in each individual little plot.

There's also the graphic representation of the garden area, which will give me a visual overview of what's what.

It's very awesome, and I am still wildly impressed with my geeky husband. :)

This has got me thinking to how I could also use spreadsheets to manage some of the information for writing The Beast*. There are so many characters, and so many details, that having a better way to organize the information flow would really streamline the writing process. Right now, everything is in Microsoft Word documents, printed out and organized in little plastic report covers, and I flip wildly looking for nuggets of information that aren't memorized yet.

Maybe once the garden project is done, I will ask him to teach me. It could either be a big time saver, or a huge procrastination device.