Garden journal

[Mumbles]

Hi guys
Do you keep a garden journal/ diary and what do you put in it? Xx


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[Scarlet]

I always start a daily sowing dairy that lasts up to the end of Jan . Usually has the list of chillies and chosen toms I have started off or will sow. Soon after I forget about it. I use my phone now to do a picture diary instead. It's quicker!

[johnjohn]

My kid's always buy me the RHS allotment Journal for Christmas and it's become a bit of a tradition, they've done this since we got our plot and we have a little shelf full of them now. It starts in Jan and finishes at the end of Dec just like a normal diary, 1 page per week which admittedly may not be enough space for some people. I make notes of seed sown, seedlings planted etc. On the inside cover I write the frost dates as we approach spring.

[Sheneval]

Mumbles - when I got my allotment in November last year I put an entry here under 'Introduce Yourself) 'New Allotment' and have more or less recorded everything I have done, mostly with photos, ever since - Once it was well underway I did send a message to one of the Mods apologising and asking if it should be moved elsewhere but received no response so have continued to use it as items arise. I intend to copy all the entries to a Word file at the end of the year which means tomorrow and Mods permitting will continue to use it in future.

[Veggie Baz]

I have downloaded a diary to my kindle, which is something I use every day. No excuse not to keep it up to date. I record which beds are used to grow what veg, and use 1 page for each crop to record sowing dates and results. Several pages are used for general information.
There are several free apps for kindle an d iPads.

[Stu8706]

I have downloaded a diary to my kindle, which is something I use every day. No excuse not to keep it up to date. I record which beds are used to grow what veg, and use 1 page for each crop to record sowing dates and results. Several pages are used for general information.
There are several free apps for kindle an d iPads.

That sounds good I will have a look for my iPad


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[noviceveggrower]

Hi,
I have just bought a A4 note pad with blank pages. Am going to get other half to draw my plots, cause I am rubbish at getting things in scale, and going to take some pictures to print off.
I intend to try, please note the word try, to keep the journal up to date with sowing dates and how things go and what grows est. Then the first of every month take new photos of the plots stood in the same place to see how things how grown or not grown.

[AllInContainers]

I have a blog (link in my sig line). It all started more for my own benefit than other peoples (I really wish I took more notes and pics last year), but it also means that some of my mates who are interested can keep an eye on what's happening, and I don't have to remember what I've told them and what I haven't.

[crannman]

just got a notepad put down what i planted how well it grew and where it all went in the plot so i can rotate crops

[Kristen]

I have spreadsheet of when I Planned and Actual sow dates / germinate / prick out / plant / first & last harvest and Qty of plants. I add new columns each year (pushing previous years to the right), and add new rows for any different varieties. Having done this for a few years I now do "same as last year" for Sowing dates and Qty.

I have a Notepad file with fortnightly date headings (basically 1st and 15th of month) and write in there anything to remind me to do - empty the water butts before they freeze and burst, for example! as well as pruning the roses, and and any particular plants that need an annual feed / prune / etc.

I also photograph everything in the garden regularly - some general shots, for which I stand at approx. the same place each time, and then photos of anything in flower etc. I use that to refer back to "If I moved THAT next to THAT did they actually flower at the same time" and so on. Also when Daffodils first came into flower in previous years, and stuff like that.

[KirstieSparkle]

ahhhh any really good app recomendations would be greatly welcome!
i am RUBBISH at organisation and im certain im going to get myself all in a muddle not knowing whats where etc.
i am going to start planting seeds tonight at last and plant out the garlic rosemary mint and strawberries and that thought alone is terrifying me

[bario1]

Invest in some seed labels and a waterproof pen... last year i mixed up all my French beans in my cold frame. I had a 'mental map' of what was where.... by the time I planted them out I didn't have a scooby which ones were climbing which were dwarf or what any of them were called. Same happened with my cabbages/caulis/kale/broccoli. Thing is, they all look the same for the first couple of months! This also happened with my spuds.

[Nannysally99]

ahhhh any really good app recomendations would be greatly welcome!
i am RUBBISH at organisation and im certain im going to get myself all in a muddle not knowing whats where etc.
i am going to start planting seeds tonight at last and plant out the garlic rosemary mint and strawberries and that thought alone is terrifying me

Try and plant a tub of early potatoes, the taste is soooo good


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[Highlander]

Sowing dates (and success / failures) always go in my work diary and have done for years - I use a green pen for garden notes so I can easily see them and dont get mixed up with teaching / student notes. Colour coding works for me but then I am that kind of bloke!!