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Re: Keeping track of things -Reply

Great suggestions, Mary Lou!  I'm planning my notebook right now!  I've
been using a journal and keeping good track of things, but I do end up
having to do alot of skimming to find when I planted or fertilized or
whatever.

And the catalogue photos are also a good idea - I find I'm always having
to clip together the product listings upon arrival with the original
catalogue photos (if I can find the catalogue!), trying to remember
sizes and colors, or even where I had in mind to plant them when I
ordered them!

Thanks again
Deb
Zone 6

calvinml@wnj.com wrote:

> 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
>
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> Nan Sterman, "gardening addict"
> Olivenhain, California
> Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> 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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