Just wondering .... ever actually get your hands dirty? Just curious as to how you can tell us how to grow stuff. Please advise

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Hi, we don't tell you how to grow stuff. The app has got a calculator which allows you to enter your plot, garden or balcony size. Using data from Which? it works out how much fruit and veg you could grow to give you an idea of scale. It also shows how much you could save if you grew as opposed to shopping at the supermarket. It also has food miles saved showing how many miles you'd avoid if you grew your own tomatoes instead of say, imported ones from Israel.
Hope that makes sense - and yes we do get our hands dirty, all the time ! We run community gardening and allotment groups across the UK and support 3500 independent community groups.

Looks like an interesting app. Does it have metric to english conversions? I'd recommend that for an update if it doesn't. I like that it is trying to show you what is going on behind the scenes that most consumers might not be aware of (i.e. the food miles).

I reckon that any effort to get folks interested in growing stuff is nice ... though I think that the state of our economies may have triggered a great deal of interest.

The help in community gardens is appreciated and respected.

The terrace above the one in the picture had almost 2 linear miles of corn, 1,800 feet each of bush beans and limas planted. I had just come back in from realizing that total production will be zilch due to the heat and drought. It has to be worked again and planted again.

I read "Get Growing which shows how much you can grow in any given plot." and thought ... darn, wish I had that app earlier LOL.

I've been planting seed for 35+ years and rarely get it right as to whether I need 50 ft or 1,000 in order to feed the family for the year.

Some years 50 ft makes the wife give me those looks that make me want to quit planting. Other years, 500 ft gets me the "What are we going to do?" looks.

The boards are full of "What happened?", "What disease is this?", "6 weeks with no rain.", "I'm 2 ft under water!", "My plants are too big and frost is still coming!". So I do not feel too far out of touch with others.

Guess that is what I pondered.

I'd love an app to predict the growing season ( which dictates how to grow/plant in order to produce x lbs of food to save x miles of transit and x cu ft of carbon dioxide and ...)

And a "How big a freezer and number of canning jars you need" app would be handy too. 'Course that would consume energy and offset the footprint ... and then would the produce have come from Israel or FL or CA or Mexico. Way over my head.

All I have really learned is that one must sow before they reap so I hope that it helps to get more folks to plant .... and does not get them discouraged if they fail to match the projections of the app.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this app! Thank-you so much for creating it. We can grow much more than you calculate (different climate, which you may be able to build into the software)... I teach a class in this exact subject and calculations are the biggest problem for me. I can only tell people my own person calculations.

Thanks,
GGG

Please forgive me ( Just an Appalachian-American trying to help.)

There is a free app listed above that will help with all of this ...
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