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Keeping track of things -Reply

I have a three ring binder.  I save all those garden catalogs.  Whenever I
buy something,  I cut the picture and description of the plant out of the
catalog and paste it on its own page.   Even it I buy it from a local nursery
I have enough catalogs that I can find the cultivar in one of mail order
catalogs.   

I use the rest of the page for notes.  Some people use index cards but I
prefer to use the 9x11 page so I have all the rest of the space for my
notes.   I note when  & where I planted .  Then during the long
nongardening months I update the book.  I note anything I did special to
the plant that year ( i.e hard pruning or maybe I moved it or divided)  Then
I note how it did that year (i.e. did it thrive, did I have a particular pest
problem this year, was it dry  season ?).  So entry for a particular plant
might look like this

1990  --started from seed.   Good germination rate.
 planted in the rock garden.  
1991 -- Did fairly well mildew problem showed up in August
1992  -- Mildew again --  used copper sulfate and kept the affected
leaves picked off-- seemed to help
1993-- Did very well -- Flower display lasted for almost 3 months. 
Divided and planted several clumps in the wildflower meadow in the fall

Office supply stores sell the divider tabs for notebooks.   I keep my
notebook in alphabetical order, but maybe you would want to keep yours
in some other order such as type of garden (shade, rock, wildflower)

Do use a binder so that you can add and take out pages and still keep it
in some kind of order.

Mary Lou --zone 5



>>> "nsterman@ucsd.edu" 09/10/97 11:47am >>>
Hello all my cybergardening friends!

I wonder if any of you have suggestions for a BIG problem I have --
keeping
track of things.  I plant, cut, start seeds, start cuttings, and I date
everything at the time they are planted or started, but after that, I loose
track.  Does anyone have a good system for keeping track of what was
planted when, when it bloomed, when it fruited, how well it did, when to
fertilize, etc?  I know that some people keep diaries, but how do you ever
go back and find anything without reading through the entire year?

Thanks for you input.  Happy Gardening

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Nan Sterman, "gardening addict"
Olivenhain, California
Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
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So goes an old chinese proverb:
         If you want to be happy for a few hours, get drunk;
         If you want to be happy for a week-end get married;
         If you want to be happy for a week, barbeque a pig;
         If you want to be happy all your life long become a gardener 


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