Game Plan

Manage Your Plantings

The Game Plan in Heirloom is a powerful tool that allows you to manage your crops from planning to harvest. This guide will help you understand how to read the schedule, interact with your plantings, and make the most out of the features available to optimize your farm’s productivity.

Understanding the Planting Timeline and Successions

The planting timeline is a visual representation of your crop schedule throughout the year. Each row corresponds to a specific crop and its successions, which are multiple plantings of the same crop staggered over time.

For example, in the image below, you can see the timeline for Arugula with several successions. Each green bar represents a planting, with the start and end dates indicating when the crop is expected to grow and be harvested.

Interacting with Plantings

You can interact with each planting directly on the timeline:

• Right-Click Actions: By right-clicking on any planting, a context menu appears with options such as “Edit Planting,” “Duplicate Planting,” and “Delete Planting.” These actions give you quick control over each planting’s details.
  
• Drag and Drop: Adjust the dates of your plantings by dragging and dropping them along the timeline. This is particularly useful if your schedule changes and you need to shift planting or harvest dates. Note that once a planting has moved past a certain state (like being sown in the nursery), only future states can be adjusted.

Editing and Managing Plantings

When you hover over a planting or its succession, three small dots appear next to it. Clicking these dots opens up additional options:

• Edit Plantation Group: Allows you to modify the details for all plantings within that group.
• Delete Succession Plantings: Removes the entire succession of plantings from your schedule.

This feature ensures that all related plantings can be managed together, saving you time and maintaining consistency across your schedule.

Managing Planting States

Each planting progresses through various states, which are automatically updated based on task completion:

• States: These include Planned, Nursery Sowed, Direct Sowed, Transplanted, Harvest in Progress, and Harvested. As tasks associated with these states are marked complete, the planting’s state changes automatically.
• Updating States: When you click on a planting, a popup appears showing detailed information. Clicking the state icon (the colored badge) will mark the task as complete and update the planting’s state. For example, if you sow your basil in the nursery, clicking on the “Nursery sow planned for …” badge will complete that task related to nursery sowing, and move the planting from “Planned” to “Nursery Sowed”.
• State Locking: Once a state is completed, you cannot modify the earlier stages by dragging and dropping. However, future states can still be adjusted. For instance, if nursery sowing is completed, you can still change the transplantation date.

Task Integration with Plantings

A key feature of Heirloom is the automatic generation of tasks for every planting. These tasks are essential for keeping track of all the activities required for your crops, from sowing to harvest.

• Automatic Task Generation: Every time you create a planting, tasks are automatically generated and scheduled in your Task Calendar. These tasks are updated if you modify the planting dates, ensuring your schedule remains accurate.
• State-Driven Task Completion: When you mark a task as complete in the task calendar, it automatically updates the corresponding planting state. Conversely, completing a state in the planting schedule updates the associated task.

This seamless integration between plantings and tasks is one of Heirloom’s strongest features, helping you stay organized and reduce the mental load of manual planning.