RE: tracking the garden

You can do it on a card index with different coloured cards for work,
plants, sowing dates etc. This eventually wears out, gets stained by
compost etc

OR you could try Excel with different columns equating to the different
coloured cards. Same problem, the mouse and keyboard get clogged with
compost, the computer crashes and you forget to fill it in because you
are too busy

OR do it in Access with all the problems above, but this is the one to
which I have recently surrendered. After four years of desultory effort,
I eventually managed to transfer the plant list from “Word” to “Access”
this week and although feeling incredibly pleased with myself I confess
I haven’t the remotest idea how I did it. I have a whole winter ahead in
which to learn how to sort it out. However it really does seem to be the
optimum but partial answer to combining all the time sheets the girls
fill in describing their work, what tools they have used (so we can
track them if they get left out etc)  and the multiplicity of lists
comprising what seeds we have collected and which plants have been
ordered etc.

All the same, the whole thing falls apart if the bits of paper on which
the data is originally written, gets wet, eaten by slugs, becomes
illegible, used for other purposes (wrapping cuttings, writing phone
messages on back of etc) or just not completed because someone has used
the only pen as a dibber.

If its any consolation, I remember a colleague whose watch-word was
“record, record, record”,  she became totally obsessed and spent more
time recording than running her nursery. Predictably she went bust.

If you use the backs of envelopes and don’t shuffle them, they will
always be in chronological order and you will find that after a few
years the information at the bottom of the pile will no longer be extant
and the paper will have rotted anyway. In which case you can recycle it
as a valuable mulch

Anthony

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
[o*@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of AnnMSeccombe
Sent: 01 October 2005 19:08
To: TalkingPoints@PlantSoup.Com; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: tracking the garden

I would be interested in listening in on this topic.  This is something
we all know we should be doing, but have not figured out an expedient
method -
 
Ann
----- Original Message ----- 
From: N Sterman 
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu 
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:34 AM
Subject: tracking the garden

I'm working on a piece about ways to track of what happens in the
garden.  Anyone care to share their favorite method?  Probably best to
reply off-list since this is not terribly on-topic. 

Thanks

Nan 

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