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Creating your perfect vegetable garden is easy with the Garden Planner. First, click the New Plan button,
then give your plan a name
and check that the selected year is for the correct growing season.
Then choose the size for your whole vegetable garden area.
Be sure to make this large enough for the paths and space around your vegetable beds as well.
The new garden plan opens in its own tab so you can have more than one plan open
at a time and can easily switch between them.
Along the top is the toolbar with buttons grouped according to function.
Before using the drawing tools, you need to set the formatting you want – the colour,
line width or font size.
Then simply click once to pick up the tool
– in this case a rectangle...
move to where you want it to start ...
and hold down your mouse to drag it out.
Once placed on the plan
shapes can be resized using the corner handles
rotated using the round handles
and moved by dragging them.
You can select shapes by clicking them ...
and holding down the Shift key enables you to select more than one shape...
which can then be moved
as a group.
Selected shapes can be deleted using this Delete button
or the delete key on your keyboard.
It is important to save your work whenever you reach a stopping point.
To add plants you use the selection bar.
You can browse them by clicking the arrows at each end,
or you can click on the first letter of the plant name.
Each plant has an information box
which gives all the essential facts about how to grow it.
To add a plant,
click it once to pick it up,
then move to where you want it on your plan.
Click to place a single plant,
or hold down the mouse to drag out a row.
Plants can easily be adjusted using the handles...
and moved by dragging them.
To create a block of plants,
just drag a corner handle down.
The coloured background shows how much space the plants require
and the tooltip shows how many plants you can grow in that area.
The colour represents the crop family which you can use for crop rotation
and is also shown by the colour of the information button.
When your plan is done, just click the Plant List button to be taken to a complete list of plants
from your plan.
his includes the number of plants you can grow...
the spacing...
and when to sow, plant and harvest them.
Plus you can easily add notes.
Whatever the size of your growing area the Garden Planner makes it simple to create
and change your plan until you get it just how you want it.
There are many more features which you can explore in the other tutorial videos.