Review active batches, overdue work and actual harvest records without adding unlike harvest units.
Suggested for your taskGarden / connected records for an ordinary job
Garden & Growing Workbook
From a seed lot to what you actually picked.
Keep plants, beds, batches, your confirmed offsets, tasks, actual harvest and costs connected. Yield retains its recorded unit; dates come from your inputs.
- Format
- Excel · .xlsx
- Inside
- 11 worksheets
- Included
- Clean file + example + guide
$5.90USD · one-time priceVAT included where applicable. Other applicable taxes are shown at checkout.Explore the sheets Follow the real example
Check the capacity and fitWho it is for, supplied record limits and software requirements
The everyday problem
What needs attention in the garden, and what did we harvest?
Keep plants, beds, batches, your confirmed offsets, tasks, actual harvest and costs connected. Yield retains its recorded unit; dates come from your inputs. The worked batch links a plant to one bed and two entered timing offsets. Harvest records 800 g total and 70 g unusable. Changing the plant unit cannot silently reinterpret that historical measurement.
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Guide step 1 of 4
What would you like to do?
Pick a useful task, or build your own selection.
Which sheets would you explore first?
Choose your starting points. The workbook keeps all its connected sheets and formulas; this does not remove or rebuild worksheets.
Nothing selected yet.
Set your review date and reporting period. Planning dates and completed records remain separate.
Suggested for your taskEnter your own plant reference, harvest unit and sourced timing offsets. No growing schedule is prescribed.
Suggested for your taskName the bed or container that a planting batch belongs to.
Suggested for your taskLink a plant and bed to a sowing date. Estimated dates use your entered offsets.
Suggested for your taskRecord the next job for a batch, its due date and an explicit completion status.
Suggested for your taskRecord actual total and usable quantities. Each record retains the plant’s own harvest unit.
Suggested for your taskRecord actual spending, with an optional batch link and your receipt reference.
Suggested for your taskCompare total, usable and unusable harvest for the same crop and unit.
Suggested for your taskReview open tasks, recorded completions and estimated harvest starts by week.
Suggested for your taskRead how your plant references feed batches, jobs and actual harvest records.
Suggested for your taskWhich file would you open first?
Both files are included. Choose which one you would open first in a desktop spreadsheet application.
Your starting plan.
Your first file or method
Both XLSX files, all 11 connected sheets and the single included guide remain in the complete kit. Your selection identifies where to begin.
Read the complete setup guideThe complete product. Your starting choices do not change its contents or price.
Your choices help you understand the complete product. They do not alter its contents or price.
Both XLSX files, all 11 connected sheets and the single included guide remain in the complete kit. Your selection identifies where to begin.
Read the tasks, contents and file choices
Useful starting tasks
Follow one crop from a batch to its usable harvest.. Use the included START_HERE.pdf guide to follow one complete task in a disposable example copy.
Choose my own starting points. Explore the contents and select only the parts you would use first.
Contents to explore
- Dashboard: Review active batches, overdue work and actual harvest records without adding unlike harvest units.
- Settings: Set your review date and reporting period. Planning dates and completed records remain separate.
- Plants: Enter your own plant reference, harvest unit and sourced timing offsets. No growing schedule is prescribed.
- Beds: Name the bed or container that a planting batch belongs to.
- Batches: Link a plant and bed to a sowing date. Estimated dates use your entered offsets.
- Tasks: Record the next job for a batch, its due date and an explicit completion status.
- Harvest: Record actual total and usable quantities. Each record retains the plant’s own harvest unit.
- Costs: Record actual spending, with an optional batch link and your receipt reference.
- Crop Review: Compare total, usable and unusable harvest for the same crop and unit.
- Weekly: Review open tasks, recorded completions and estimated harvest starts by week.
- Start: Read how your plant references feed batches, jobs and actual harvest records.
Both files are included. Choose which one you would open first in a desktop spreadsheet application.
Explore the worked example: Fictional records show how the sheets work together. Save a disposable copy before trying a change. garden-workbook-example.xlsx
Start my own working copy: Open the clean workbook after reading the guide. Keep the original and save a copy for your own records. garden-workbook-clean.xlsx
Follow the complete first taskUse the included guide and a disposable example copy.
Your first useful session / Start with the example
Follow one crop from a batch to its usable harvest.
Follow this one complete task before entering your own records. Keep the blank original and save a working copy.
Recognise the planting reference
Plants PL-01 uses grams for its harvest. Batch B-01 links PL-01 to BED-01; your own timing offsets produce estimates, not guaranteed growing dates.
Inspect BatchesCompare two actual harvests
Harvest H-01 records 500 g total and 450 g usable. H-02 records 300 g total and 280 g usable. Both belong to B-01.
Inspect HarvestReview one crop in one unit
Crop Review PL-01 shows two harvest records: 800 g total, 730 g usable and 70 g not usable. The separate radish reference uses individual items; its unit is not added to grams.
Inspect Crop Review
EVERY WORKSHEET / ACTUAL EXAMPLE FILE
See what you enter.
Understand what updates.
Inspect all 11 sheets. These are images of the delivered example, with fictional records. Open an image to read its full detail.
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:E39. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Dashboard
Review active batches, overdue work and actual harvest records without adding unlike harvest units.
- You enter
- No routine entries
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Linked review and navigation
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:D27. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Settings
Set your review date and reporting period. Planning dates and completed records remain separate.
- You enter
- Currency, review date and labelled period
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Visible settings check
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:G14. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Plants
Enter your own plant reference, harvest unit and sourced timing offsets. No growing schedule is prescribed.
- You enter
- 100 rows: Plant ID, Crop / variety, Harvest unit, Days to transplant, Days to first harvest, Seed / guidance ref
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Input and link checks
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:E14. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Beds
Name the bed or container that a planting batch belongs to.
- You enter
- 30 rows: Bed ID, Location / container, Area m² / optional, Own notes
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Input and link checks
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:J14. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Batches
Link a plant and bed to a sowing date. Estimated dates use your entered offsets.
- You enter
- 200 rows: Batch ID, Plant ID, Bed ID, Sown / planned date, Seeds / starts count, Stage, Own notes
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Estimated transplant, Estimated first harvest
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:I14. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Tasks
Record the next job for a batch, its due date and an explicit completion status.
- You enter
- 300 rows: Task ID, Batch ID, Task / own source, Due date, Status, Completed / optional, Notes
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Due state
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:J14. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Harvest
Record actual total and usable quantities. Each record retains the plant’s own harvest unit.
- You enter
- 300 rows: Harvest ID, Batch ID, Actual harvest date, Total qty, Usable qty, Notes, Recorded unit
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Plant ID, Not usable qty
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:G14. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Costs
Record actual spending, with an optional batch link and your receipt reference.
- You enter
- 200 rows: Cost ID, Actual date, Batch ID / optional, Category, Amount, Receipt / notes
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Input and link checks
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:G19. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Crop Review
Compare total, usable and unusable harvest for the same crop and unit.
- You enter
- No routine entries; review the source records
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Unit, Harvest records, Total qty, Usable qty, Not usable qty
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:E19. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Weekly
Review open tasks, recorded completions and estimated harvest starts by week.
- You enter
- No routine entries; review the source records
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Tasks completed, Estimated harvest starts, Actual harvest records
Actual example worksheet · Preview range A1:D40. Image only; entries are made in your downloaded workbook.
Start
Read how your plant references feed batches, jobs and actual harvest records.
- You enter
- No routine entries
- Calculated or supplied reference
- Instructions and practical limits
Follow the supplied fictional exampleRead the inputs and the result together
From the supplied fictional example
Follow one crop from a batch to its usable harvest.
The worked batch links a plant to one bed and two entered timing offsets. Harvest records 800 g total and 70 g unusable. Changing the plant unit cannot silently reinterpret that historical measurement.
- Batch B-01 / plant PL-01
- Harvest unit: grams
- Harvest H-01
- 500 g total; 450 g usable
- Harvest H-02
- 300 g total; 280 g usable
- Actual total / usable harvest
- 800 g / 730 g
- Entered period costs
- 15.00
- Overdue task
- 1
FOLLOW THE ACTUAL EXAMPLE FILE
Follow one crop from a batch to its usable harvest.
Fictional records from the supplied example XLSX. Follow the same references through the sheets, then start your own clean copy.
The records behind the result
Batch B-01 / plant PL-01 Harvest unit: grams
Harvest H-01 500 g total; 450 g usable
Harvest H-02 300 g total; 280 g usable
The worked batch links a plant to one bed and two entered timing offsets. Harvest records 800 g total and 70 g unusable. Changing the plant unit cannot silently reinterpret that historical measurement.
- Actual total / usable harvest
- 800 g / 730 g
- Entered period costs
- 15.00
- Overdue task
- 1
This is an explanation of the downloadable workbook, not an online editor. Its complete clean and worked files are included. 100 plant/variety records; 30 beds; 200 planting batches; 300 tasks; 300 harvest records; 200 costs; 16-week review.
Inspect the actual worksheetsFrom setup to a regular review
How you use it.
Open the 4-step setup and review routineInputs, calculations and the decision each step supports
- 01
Define your own growing plan
You enterGive each crop/variety and bed a short text ID. Enter days to transplant and harvest only from sources relevant to your variety and conditions. Blank offsets mean unknown, never zero days.
CalculatedPlants PL-01 uses grams for its harvest. Batch B-01 links PL-01 to BED-01; your own timing offsets produce estimates, not guaranteed growing dates.
Your next stepOpen Batches and compare the linked reference with the records above.
- 02
Track a planting batch
You enterConnect a batch to one plant and bed, enter its sowing date, quantity and stage. Estimated dates derive from your offsets; they are planning aids, not growing advice.
CalculatedHarvest H-01 records 500 g total and 450 g usable. H-02 records 300 g total and 280 g usable. Both belong to B-01.
Your next stepOpen Harvest and compare the linked reference with the records above.
- 03
Record what actually happened
You enterTasks hold due and completed dates separately. Harvest records measured quantity and usable quantity in the plant unit. Costs record actual purchases without estimating the value of the food grown.
CalculatedCrop Review PL-01 shows two harvest records: 800 g total, 730 g usable and 70 g not usable. The separate radish reference uses individual items; its unit is not added to grams.
Your next stepOpen Crop Review and compare the linked reference with the records above.
- 04
Review one crop at a time
You enterCrop Review aggregates harvest within the selected period in that crop unit. Weekly shows due tasks and estimated harvest starts for 16 weeks from your period start. Retired batches keep their history.
CalculatedCrop Review PL-01 shows two harvest records: 800 g total, 730 g usable and 70 g not usable. The separate radish reference uses individual items; its unit is not added to grams.
Your next stepOpen Crop Review and compare the linked reference with the records above.
11 sheets. Inspect each one.Inputs, outputs and when to use every worksheet
DashboardOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- No routine entries
Calculated or reference
- Linked review and navigation
Review active batches, overdue work and actual harvest records without adding unlike harvest units.
Inspect the actual Dashboard sheetSettingsOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- Currency, review date and labelled period
Calculated or reference
- Visible settings check
Set your review date and reporting period. Planning dates and completed records remain separate.
Inspect the actual Settings sheetPlantsOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- 100 rows: Plant ID, Crop / variety, Harvest unit, Days to transplant, Days to first harvest, Seed / guidance ref
Calculated or reference
- Input and link checks
Enter your own plant reference, harvest unit and sourced timing offsets. No growing schedule is prescribed.
Inspect the actual Plants sheetBedsOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- 30 rows: Bed ID, Location / container, Area m² / optional, Own notes
Calculated or reference
- Input and link checks
Name the bed or container that a planting batch belongs to.
Inspect the actual Beds sheetBatchesOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- 200 rows: Batch ID, Plant ID, Bed ID, Sown / planned date, Seeds / starts count, Stage, Own notes
Calculated or reference
- Estimated transplant, Estimated first harvest
Link a plant and bed to a sowing date. Estimated dates use your entered offsets.
Inspect the actual Batches sheetTasksOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- 300 rows: Task ID, Batch ID, Task / own source, Due date, Status, Completed / optional, Notes
Calculated or reference
- Due state
Record the next job for a batch, its due date and an explicit completion status.
Inspect the actual Tasks sheetHarvestOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- 300 rows: Harvest ID, Batch ID, Actual harvest date, Total qty, Usable qty, Notes, Recorded unit
Calculated or reference
- Plant ID, Not usable qty
Record actual total and usable quantities. Each record retains the plant’s own harvest unit.
Inspect the actual Harvest sheetCostsOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- 200 rows: Cost ID, Actual date, Batch ID / optional, Category, Amount, Receipt / notes
Calculated or reference
- Input and link checks
Record actual spending, with an optional batch link and your receipt reference.
Inspect the actual Costs sheetCrop ReviewOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- No routine entries; review the source records
Calculated or reference
- Unit, Harvest records, Total qty, Usable qty, Not usable qty
Compare total, usable and unusable harvest for the same crop and unit.
Inspect the actual Crop Review sheetWeeklyOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- No routine entries; review the source records
Calculated or reference
- Tasks completed, Estimated harvest starts, Actual harvest records
Review open tasks, recorded completions and estimated harvest starts by week.
Inspect the actual Weekly sheetStartOpen sheet details
Editable inputs
- No routine entries
Calculated or reference
- Instructions and practical limits
Read how your plant references feed batches, jobs and actual harvest records.
Inspect the actual Start sheetCompare with a manual starting pointWhat the connected workbook adds
| What is included | A manual list | Garden & Growing Workbook 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Records | Separate notes | 11 connected XLSX sheets |
| Calculation | Manual arithmetic | Keep plants, beds, batches, your confirmed offsets, tasks, actual harvest and costs connected. Yield retains its recorded unit; dates come from your inputs. |
Files, capacities and practical limitsRead these before choosing your working copy
The download
Files with a purpose.
garden-workbook-clean.xlsx
11 connected sheets. Empty customer registers; supplied reference definitions are identified in Start.
garden-workbook-example.xlsx
Separate fictional worked example with the same formulas and fixed capacities.
START_HERE.pdf
Your single guide to setup, the first useful task, file recovery, practical limits and license.
English labels and guides. One currency, explicit dates and stable text IDs.
Before you choose
Fit and practical limits.
- A home grower following a few beds
- an allotment keeper recording batches and harvest.
Understand the boundaries.
- 100 plant/variety records; 30 beds; 200 planting batches; 300 tasks; 300 harvest records; 200 costs; 16-week review.
- Estimated dates use user-entered whole days after sowing. No climate, frost, soil, pesticide, food-safety or planting advice.
- Harvest quantities are aggregated per plant/variety and its unit. No mixed-unit total or predicted yield.
- Costs are historical amounts in one currency. No automatic garden layout, bed capacity calculation, notifications or weather connection.
- Native Excel verification pending.
Desktop spreadsheet software is separate. Native Excel verification remains pending; Google Sheets and Numbers support has not been established.
Garden & Growing Workbook / Version 1.0
Your own working copy.
Clean workbook, separate example and one START_HERE.pdf guide covering setup, practical limits and the internal-use license.
$5.90USD · One-time purchaseVAT included where applicable. Other applicable taxes are shown at checkout.
Desktop spreadsheet software required; it is not included. Native Excel compatibility is still awaiting verification.
Private preview. Purchases are unavailable while the files and delivery are verified.
Questions about this workbook
The details that affect your choice.
How do I know what to edit?
Blue cells accept records. Grey cells contain formulas. Begin with the separate fictional example and follow START_HERE.pdf. Each register has visible input checks.
Can I add unlimited rows?
No. Capacities are fixed and listed sheet by sheet. Adding rows requires extending formulas, validation and review ranges; it is not a supported automatic expansion.
Does the file send my records anywhere?
No macros or external connections are supplied. Your spreadsheet application and cloud-storage settings are separate.