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Tracking your gardens progress

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Could be @Hostafan1, but you are still working unlike us retirees! 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    and I'm lucky enough to have a pretty big garden. It'd be some database to handle it all. 
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I thought of that after I'd posted! By the way how's your OH? recovering well I hope.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Lizzie27 said:
    I thought of that after I'd posted! By the way how's your OH? recovering well I hope.
    Bless you for asking. Hopefully home from hospital later today.. EEK!! wish me luck.
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    If I had to do paperwork about the garden I’d give it up.  that wouldn’t be enjoyment for me.
    The garden is where I can go to relax, mind wise that is,  I plant something when a gap is available, it’s for my enjoyment, and having to plot and plan would be the last thing on my mind
    the only planning I do is for next year’s seed shopping.  That’s all done on eBay or Wilco. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    I have a list of plants which just tells me where and when I bought/obtained it,its full name (in case I lose the label!) and roughly where I planted it in the garden.
    Take lots of photos through the year as well.Great to look back on areas of the garden to see how things grow and develop in time.
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Had plans to be organised when we moved here and started a new garden and I did start a spreadsheet with all the plants brought and bought and another for seeds but it didn't take long to succumb to other distractions and I have not kept up with sowing and planting info.  I do take photos thru the year tho.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I should also have added that I keep all my plant labels in alphabetical order and dated in a old shoebox, then if I want to check the details or how old the plant is, I have all the details to hand - sad, moi? !!!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That is a simple but effective idea.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DebxDebx Posts: 14
    I recently bought a garden journal to hopefully document my garden throughout the year. Its A4 and is undated so you start it whenever it suits you. It's for 12 months broken down into 4 weeks per month.
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