Re: How do you keep track of your plants?
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- Subject: Re: How do you keep track of your plants?
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:39:24 -0400
I have a database which is fine for anything from the past 10 years,
but not for years before that, but the information is in a nice pile,
should I get the time to sort it out and enter it:-) When I'm
working in the database and hit an entry for something that has moved
on to the great compost heap in the sky, I note it as 'dead' and the
date and, if I know, the cause.
I try to be very diligent about entering new purchases and
acquisitions immediately, as to put it off is to forget to do it,
which drives me nuts when I want to check on something in the
database and it isn't there and then I have to hunt for the info. to
enter it. I also keep a loose-leaf notebook for propagation from
seed and cuttings, which is helpful if I can read the entries after
they get cold...
As for where things are in the garden. Some have been residents for
so long, I know where they are. If I know where I put something when
I put the plant in the database, I'll note it. If not - say it's in
a pot waiting for a home, then I rely on what passes for my memory, a
more faulty mechanism as days go by. Am continually surprised when I
find somebody somewhere I have totally forgotten I'd put them.
Having a 'map' of the garden beds is a grand idea. I did many of
them years ago and still find them interesting when I come upon them.
Putting a 'map' in a loose-leaf binder, with photos of the same beds
on the opposite page is also helpful.
Photos are kept in a box in semi-order; slides are kept in those flat
pocket sheets in a binder. Not great retrieval, but until I get
around to something better it works.
Problem with all the record keeping is that it takes time...time I'd
rather spend in the garden....data entry bores me silly, wish there
were some automatic way for it to happen - I'd be ever so much better
organized.
As for remembering a plant name when someone is walking around with
me...well...sometimes the name will come to the front of my so-called
brain and sometimes it won't, waiting for a later time (middle of
night) to emerge. Sometimes, I can find the plant tag that I bury in
front of each plant and sometimes I can't. So, it's hit and miss in
walk-around conversation:-) However, I can always look it up if
needs must...
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Anelle Kloski <akloski@jps.net>
> Date: Thursday, May 11, 2000 2:42 PM
>
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> How organized (or not) are others on the list? I thought of
sending in
> my current list of plants, but it is not well updated, and might be
> confusing.
>
> Anelle
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