Re: journals

Last spring, I started several garden-related documents on a laptop
computer.  Using WordPerfect, I started a chart on which I track what's in
bloom when, and in which bed.  Last year, I had a spring chart and a summer
chart. This year, I've consolidated into a single chart, starting a little
later in the sprint and reducing the font to about 10 points,  I use the
"table" function, and list dates for each week.  I've created a second row
for 1998, within each box in the table.  My codes are rather ad hoc.  "B"
is for "in bloom,"  "b" represents "bud" or "still blooming, but not as
enthusiastically"; "p" is for planted/transplanted; "D" is for deer or
deadheaeded, "g"  is for "gone".  I print the document out every few week,
and take the physical notebook I keep it in out to the garden about once a
week to track what is in bloom.  Each bed has its one section in the
notebook, and I try to start at a corner of the bed that corresponds to the
upper left hnad corner of a page.

I also have a "plant inventory" document, with about 10 sections, including
"full sun," "partial shade,"  "shade," "veggies," "seed," "trees,"
"shrubs,"  "annuals," "considering," and "in hand, but not planted".
Within that, I list plants alphabetically by Latin name, then by variety.
When I read about a particular plant, in a book, catalog or article, I post
the information, including things like what other plants it goes well with,
how and when to divide it,  how it grows, etc.  The document runs perhaps
45 pages right now, and tells me most of what I need to run my garden.  (10
years ago, I didn't need to have it all in writing; now I do!)  When I give
someone a plant, I print out the section about that plant.  I can also
consult my chart to tell the recipient when it blooms for me.   

I've also been known to post garden information on my Lotus Organizer, in a
calendar-type section separate from my regular calendar.  This provides
good reference for dates.

At 02:58 PM 6/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Well..foolish me.  I had gone out and bought a little book (about 5x7)
>that said "journal".  Little did I know that I should have bought a
>steamer trunk with pages.  I'm joking because I received such
>wonderful responses from you people about what to put in my journal. 
>It's very evident that there is NO "correct" thing to include in the
>journal.Anything goes (including the bronzed baby shoes , seed
>packets, pressed flowers, poems, photos etc. etc.  I guess somewhere
>along the way, one mentions which flower bloomed and when, and if you
>like or dislike the location of your plants, and if it has been rainy
>or droughty (is there such a word?) I will surely mention the saga of
>my traveling shasta daisies, and how disgusted I am with my poppies.  
>I thank you all..Ishall begin to diligently work on my journal (volume
>I ).
>Jeanne  
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