Broadfork™

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Next year starts from this year.

On the day this picture was taken, the average last spring frost was 164 days away.

The sample garden's Timeline for 2026: a bar per planting under its bed across the months, red frost lines, shading from cool to hot behind them, green marks for logged picks, tasks down the left, and a line at the top counting 164 days to the average last spring frost.
The yearA bar per planting, under its bed. The red lines are the frost dates, and the shading behind the bars runs from cool to hot. The green marks are the picks on record, the lines under the Arch Bed show what followed what, and the next 10 days of tasks run down the left.
The Timeline's Legend open: a sample of each bar style with its meaning, from growing in the bed, slowing down, peak harvest target and your logged picks, through the hot stretch, a bolt, shade cloth and a declining year, to the frost lines, covers, mulch and the small marks.
The legendWhat the marks on a bar mean: growing, slowing, peak harvest, your picks, a pause, the hot stretch, a bolt, a cover, a plan not planted. The fade is drawn from the math, so its shape changes with the reason the crop is slowing.
A planting's panel opened beside the Timeline: Sugar Snap Pea in the Arch Bed, planted 03/28/2026, direct sown, first harvest 06/01/2026 from your pick log, expected end 06/22/2026, 62 days to maturity, with Details, Pick and Observation buttons.
A plantingClick a crop's name and it opens beside the chart: Sugar Snap Pea in the Arch Bed, direct sown 03/28/2026, first picked 06/01/2026. Pick and Observation are the two buttons you use when something happens.

Broadfork gets better the more you use it. You do not have to spend all day in it: a few taps when something happens. Log the day a crop bolted or flowered and its bar on the timeline moves, and says what moved it. Log a growth stage and a dated chore goes on your Tasks list. The record is kept as the source; the estimate is worked out again beside it.

Before anything is picked, the Timeline draws a harvest window from the day you planted, and says it is an estimate. Once you log picks, your real window is drawn over it, so a crop that came in early, late or light is plain to see when you plan the next one.

When a bed comes free, Broadfork says what still fits the season from that day, and which plant families the bed has held, so the same family is not back in the same ground too soon.