My garden website, http://www.apanda.ca/gardensite/homegrdn.htm, started off
as just a garden log like the one you describe. Like a seed, it grew.

Andrew


"David E. Ross" wrote in message
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On 12/14/2007 11:47 PM, wrote:
After a few years of relatively unscheduled gardening, I have
started to keep a log.

But it is just a text file that looks like:

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21 October 07 - Planted tomatoes.

29 December 07 - Added epsom salts around tomatoes.

2 November 07 - Planted capsicums.

7 December 07 - Fruits appearing on tomato plants.

14 December 07 - First female flowers on zucchini.
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And so on like that. (The above is just for example, not real
info.)

Does anybody have ideas to offer on a better format? Like maybe
a database row/field type of thing?

Thanks...



See my garden diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary/index.html.
No, you don't have to create a Web page. You can to this in Word, in a
two column table with a separate row for each date and a new file for
each month, each two months (as mine is), each calendar quarter, etc.

It does help to note the weather (my left column). Also note
observations and not merely what you do.

When you have a follow-on entry, be sure to indicate a prior date for
the same issue. That helps to recreate complete information on it.

If this is for your own use and will not be public, you don't have to
indicate the botanical names of plants. I only indicate them in my
public diary in case there are readers in other areas, where the common
name for a plant might be different or where a common name refers to a
different plant.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/