I stick stuff in, if I don't like where it is , I move it. I've never written anything down , nor made a plan and I'm not very good at keeping labels. Am I the least "organised" gardener around?
Do you do this for every plant??? If so I'm very impressed.
Yes I do. If you start right at the beginning of establishing a garden it's not so much work. Then you add to the database as you acquire more plants (and remove those who have disappeared).
How
long did it take you to make an accurate plan of your garden and all
its beds?
Quite a long time at first, but now it's only a couple of hours each week.
The only problem was producing an accurate map! No matter how
carefully I measured things they never quite tied up with reality! And I
didn't have a database of plants, so adding plants generally involved a
lot of typing. Does garden Planner have a big database of plants?
Yes, measuring the garden and the beds accurately is tiresome but necessary to transfer those measures to your garden plan software so as to get a correct map!
Garden Planner has a small database of plant images (simplified), it does not have a database of plants themselves, which some other (more expensive) software have.
I just go outside into the garden and have a look around. Most GC purchases are impulse, so I don't plan out their placement until after I pull them out of the boot of the car.
You others are amazing, with your organization, I am super impressed.
I don’t even know what’s growing on in the greenhouse, never mind the garden, though I established it, so I did put everything in. Monty says label everything, but the trouble is, I’m lazy. I potted up 12 nice bits from a yellow achillea destined for a hot border, and 12 from a pink one, destined for a pink and purple bed. I didn’t need to label each one did I? Just one in each tray. BUT....over winter I reorganised and all these went into the same tray, so now I only know the colour of 2 out of 24 plants. Unfortunately I’m the type of person who really can’t stand yellow in the pink and purple border. I need to get organised, yes.
I have chopped up some old coloured plastic straws into short sections and then use them to mark sets of plants, like your Achilleas. Easier to pull a few matching bits out of a pot than to write all the labels, but you'll still need one!
Papi, I did try to use Garden Planner software but my computer wan't happy to download it. I have downgraded my security settings and am trying again to have a look.
Papi, I did try to use Garden Planner software but my computer wan't happy to download it. I have downgraded my security settings and am trying again to have a look.
Sorry, don't understand what you mean with "my computer wasn't happy".
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Am I the least "organised" gardener around?
You others are amazing, with your organization, I am super impressed.
Monty says label everything, but the trouble is, I’m lazy. I potted up 12 nice bits from a yellow achillea destined for a hot border, and 12 from a pink one, destined for a pink and purple bed. I didn’t need to label each one did I? Just one in each tray. BUT....over winter I reorganised and all these went into the same tray, so now I only know the colour of 2 out of 24 plants. Unfortunately I’m the type of person who really can’t stand yellow in the pink and purple border.
I need to get organised, yes.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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