Garden journal with year-over-year yield tracking

What it does

After two seasons you realize the same questions come up every March: when did I start tomatoes last year, did the San Marzanos out-yield the Cherokee Purples, when does my lettuce bolt, why did the beans flop in August. A garden journal answers all of it — but the printable templates on Etsy don't compare years, don't know your zone, and don't tell you when to start succession waves for lettuce or fall spinach. This skill builds a real garden journal for your zone and your crops. Drop in your USDA zone (or postcode), plot size, and what you planted — it returns four linked sections: a Zone & Frost Reference with average last/first frost dates and growing-season length for your area; a per-crop log with variety, DTM, projected harvest, and a yield target pulled from real benchmark ranges; a succession calendar that knows lettuce wants 2-3 weeks between waves and fall spinach needs to be sown 59 days before your average first fall frost; and a year-over-year compare grid that calculates delta and trend automatically. Five bundled references do the work: frost-date and microclimate tables, per-crop yield benchmarks with named varieties, succession-planting intervals and fall back-calculation formulas, a fully worked sample journal, and a common-problems diagnostic guide that flags BER, vine borer, hornworm, and bolting in your notes column. Outputs as printable HTML, CSV, and a Google Sheets vegetable garden tracker you paste straight in.

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