keeping a garden diary?

[sarraceniac]

Back on gardening diaries, my old father, a true Victorian head gardener, kept what I suppose is a diary but to me is a series of disjointed notes. Some of the advice is still good if you can follow the threads through, for which you need at least one bottle of red for every subject. I do a similar thing to him but as my writing is so bad, I often can't read what I have written 30 minutes later, I've taken to just jotting things onto Notepad. A spread-sheet would be a little bit too organised I think and so would bore me.

[yellow strawberry]

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i am going to give this a try this year ,,,not used it before but looks good

[Hazel at the Hill]

Aghhhhhhh!

I'm supposed to have emailed the spreadsheet to a couple of grapes & have forgotten! Apologies if you're waiting, I'll go and sort this out this evening!

[jogette]

Last year was my first complete year on the allotment so I bought a page a day A5 diary from the pound shop. It's been great, I recorded when I sowed any seed whether in the propagator or on the plot and I find myself referring to it again for sowing times this year. I found that was all I really had time to do although it would have been nice to record the amounts of crops taken from the lottie. A sort of pat on the back for all the hard work

[WeeGarden]

I have a lovely fabric covered thick notebook that I use as my 'gardening diary', but I don't manage to keep on top of it.

I started it last year when I started veggie growing, but during April-Sept when the garden was going great guns, the pages are depressingly empty and I now can't remember what I did, what was good, what was not so good, etc...

This is my second week of gardening this year, and so far I've kept on top of it. Will see what happens when the major sowing/growing/harvesting season gets under way again.

[Flummery]

I just started a blog but theer are so many out there no-one will probably read mine

We will if you give us the blog address! Put it as a link in your signature. My blog gets readers, which is nice, but it's there for me to see what I did last year. At my age you forget!

[wollyanna]

Could I lplease request a copy of the spreadsheet from either Fi or Hazel,it would save the endless pieces of paper that I seem to have with plans on them. Hows the job going Fi I'm intrigued as to which garden centre it is as my son lives in Headley Down and when we go to visit he always gives me a tour of the garden centres. You are so lucky because you can get Hazel bean sticks which I always used but have failed to get any here in Yorkshire. They are a bit awkward to bring back as well!!

[SMT]

Without intending to be antagonistic (who me???) are women more likely to keep a diary than men?
I know a lot of the Victorian Head Gardeners kept diaries which were part of there work but generally I think (rightly or wrongly) women keep diaries more often than men?

I would love to be able to keep a diary but they always end up like the numerous Bloggs I've started i.e. They're lucky if they last a month!!!!!

lol. I'm probably going to follow suit snadger. This year I've started a hardback pocket diary given to me for free as a promotional thing. Find it useful for planning in advance of sow dates with the aim to harvest the veg at the right time ie. shows and sprawling pumpkin vine. I've not quite made the 1 month mark yet so it may still end up getting lost at the back of a draw, later to be found in 2020!

[Bren In Pots]

I've got a freebie year wall planner and I just jot down when I set my seeds, it get a bit cramped so I ought rethink that idea.

[FionaH]

Anyone who wants a copy of Hazels excellent spreadsheet, pm me your email addy

[Bren In Pots]

I've bought a garden journal spotted it this afternoon in the charity shop, its an unused Sainsburys ring-binder one with tabbed inserts and plenty of pages at a bargain price of £1.

[Snadger]

We will if you give us the blog address! Put it as a link in your signature. My blog gets readers, which is nice, but it's there for me to see what I did last year. At my age you forget!

I use the 'What I did today' thread as an Aide-Memoire!

[Flummery]

I use that too Snadger - but I don't put photos in there. I can add bits about my quilting and cooking on the blog too, so it's not all about gardening.

[elsie-scot]

just came across these for people who like to be organised

Printable Garden Journal

Sample Garden Journal Pages - Hobby Farms - this one appeals to my inner girlie

Free Garden Journal Templates from www.gardensandcrafts.com

[Brengirl]

Why on earth would I be needing a diary. I still don't know what day it is