Plan perennials and fall-planted flowers
Open the Game PlanHeirloom plans season by season. Here is how tulips planted in October keep their beds until they bloom, and how peonies or lavender stay on the same beds year after year.
Know how Heirloom counts seasons
A planting belongs to the season it starts in. There is no planting that runs for several years: a perennial is planned again each season, and a planting that crosses the end of a season carries over into the next one.
Plan fall-planted flowers in the season you plant them
Add tulips planted in October, ranunculus set out before winter or hardy annuals sown in the fall to the season in which you plant them, with a harvest the following spring. The planting keeps its beds into the next season: that season’s Crop Map shows it where it is, and its beds stay taken until the flowers are done.
Its harvest counts in the season it happens: in the season you plant tulips in October, the Game Plan shows them with no estimated revenue, and their stems add to next spring’s figures.
To change that planting, go back to the season it was planned in: Heirloom tells you which one when you open it.
Plan a perennial each season on the same beds
For peonies, lavender or echinacea, add a planting of the crop every season, with this year’s harvest window and yield, and place it on the same beds in the Crop Map. Its harvests and revenue then count in the right season.
Copy a whole season with its beds
When you start a new season, open the Game Plan menu and choose Duplicate season. Pick Copy from and Copy to, check Include location assignments, then click Duplicate. Every planting is copied with its beds, perennials included. It copies the whole season, annuals too: remove what you will not grow again, or use the copy as the first draft of your plan.
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