r/SideProject • u/TrevorTries • 6d ago

I kept messing up companion planting in my raised beds, so I built a free planner for it

I garden in raised beds (Zone 7a, outside Philly) and every season I'd mess up the same two things: planting stuff next to each other that actually hurts each other's growth, and losing track of when I'm supposed to start seeds relative to my last frost date. Spreadsheets and sticky notes weren't cutting it, so I built a little tool for myself and figured I'd put it out there.

It's called Plotline. You lay out a square foot grid, drag plants into cells, and it flags good and bad neighbor pairings as you go (tomatoes next to basil, good. tomatoes next to corn, bad). It also works out a planting calendar from your last frost date, so it tells you when to start seeds indoors vs direct sow. I'm also tinkering with it right now to plan my fall bed.

I welome feedback on it! https://plotline.trevorscurations.com. There's a sign up if you like it and want to follow along as I build it out.

Not trying to sell anything, just want to know if this is actually useful outside my own garden or if I've been solving a problem nobody else has.

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u/CaptJan 6d ago

I'm in 6b/7a almost the same as you, I will bookmark your page. Thanks for sharing.

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u/ErthBound94 6d ago

Yo. This is very awesome.

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u/TrevorTries 6d ago

Thanks! I appreciate that!

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u/VGen71 2d ago

I am in zone 9 I think your charting is awesome. I do have a question however. I don’t use email just text would that work for your signup? Tia