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Organizing Your Seed Ordering Process with a Chart

January 26, 2013 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

Ordering garden seeds from more than one seed catalog can be confusing.  In the past, I’ve just written on a separate paper for each company before I made my order on line, but I end up shuffling back and forth trying to keep track of things.  This year, I created a beautiful color coded chart, if I may say so myself!  Links to pdfs of all charts can be found at the bottom of my article.  Here is a screenshot of it (which I am also proud of myself for figuring out how to do!)  🙂

blank seed ordering chart screenshot
blank seed ordering chart screenshot

After saving it in this form, I went ahead and tweaked it some for my personal use. I added the list of vegetables and herbs, spaced according to my approximation of numbers of varieties I would buy. I came up with the list by browsing one of the Johnny’s Selected Seeds catalog, one of the most thorough catalogs I order from.  I also typed in some details that I want to remember while ordering, such as if I am

  • planning on comparing an open pollinated variety to a hybrid, 
  • planting early and later types, 
  • or I want kinds for different uses.

Here is a screen shot of the first page of that effort:

vegetable seed ordering - some details added to chart
vegetable seed ordering – some details added to chart

The notes column will be used for commenting to myself why I chose a certain variety.  (I will publish the list of what I ordered and why in another blog article.)  I will use the “saved/self-sown” column to mark if I will get something locally, like potatoes. Seems silly to order potatoes online when I live in Idaho….

For ordering flowers, whether plants or seeds, I just changed the heading of the first column.  For types, I will list things about:

  • vining
  • plant height (which can vary so much even within specific flowers)
  • shade or sun preferences
  • moisture needs
  • is it good for cutting

So – here are the charts themselves.

blank seed ordering chart

seed ordering chart with list of vegetables

flower seed ordering chart

I hope you will find these as useful as I do.  I’d love to hear if anyone has any ideas about making them work more efficiently.  Feel free to post links to your own charts in the comments.  Happy seed ordering!

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