The Seed Program for Windows

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Download.com staffAugust 24, 2015

This application is on the plain side, but it lets you easily track seed inventory and offers useful crop and planting information to make your garden a success. The Seed Program's utilitarian interface has but a few options to add seeds to your inventory, view and modify crop selections, and access planting and inventory reports. There are 24 plants included, from Alpine Strawberries to Leeks, with planting time and directions shown for each. Look under Hints to find a well-written, concise description of the plant with useful growing and harvesting information. You can only view hints once crops have been added to your seed inventory, and there's a five-seed limit with the trial version. Reports include a Planting Schedule with plant names only or with directions included, and you can build any report you want with the Custom Report tool. The Seed Program's no-frills approach makes it easy enough for any gardening enthusiast to manage seed inventory and planting schedules.

The Seed Program for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: June 21, 2005

Latest update: August 24, 2015

Version: 3

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows NT
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 10
Windows ME

Additional Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 1,343

Downloads Last Week: 1

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4/5

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The Only Program of its Kind
carbondatingJanuary 28, 2007
Pros
As this seems to be the only program offering garden planting organization and scheduling, I'm glad it's as good as it is. The first thing to do when you get it is to input the dates of the first and last frost in your area. From there, you input the information about every seed you plan to plant, and TSP keeps them organized - you can print out a planting schedule that lets you know what to plant how and when. You can even customize this report to get all the information you find most useful. It's helped me stay on my toes about starting seeds as early as possible to be sure to get in a long and productive growing season.
Cons
The biggest problem I've encountered with this program is that printing out your planting schedule is an all-or nothing deal; if your printer jams up midway through, and you only need the last four pages of the report, you'll have to either reprint the entire schedule or "print" to PDF and use Acrobat Reader to select the pages you need. <p>A minor irritation with the program is the lack of any sort of resources to find the frost dates in your area - these were surprisingly hard to find on Google. A utility within the app to input your zip code would be nice, but a link to a decent website offering this information would suffice. <p>Another minor irritation has been that the Maintain Crops screen makes it easy to accidentally delete information about crops when trying to add a seed not in the included database. <p>In a perfect world, this program would receive periodic updates via internet with a broader crop database, but the program is very helpful as-is.
Summary

Developer’s Description

By CyberNiche Software

Keep track of the seeds you have purchased.

The Seed Program for Windows is a database system for garden seeds. Use it to help organize your seeds--keep track of what seeds you have purchased, where they are from, how old they are or what seeds you need to buy. The program will print a planting schedule for the seeds you have entered, so you know exactly when and how to plant all of your seeds. The database includes extensive information for a wide variety of vegetables and herbs.