On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:02:40 -0400, Gary Woods
wrote:

mike wrote:

Frankly, the poster was
right on the mark, considering your original post.....

And if you're into seed saving, recommendations are STRONGLY against
depending on computer records for the all-important accession history
records. They tend to go away unexpectedly, and even backups may likely be
on media that nobody can read in a timeframe short by even human standards.

I do use various computer files, but occasionally print them on dead trees
and place in a folder made of more dead trees.

I do this as well.

There are other considerations though - if you are *really*
serious about it.

For instance, our house could burn down and with it all of
the records that are on paper. But I'd still have a lot of
my records, because I put them on CDs and they are stored in
a friend's house. These get updated monthly.

I'm not *that* serious about gardening records, but I am
very serious about our business tax records so the CD might
as well contain gardening records, recipes, photographs, and
so on. There's plenty of room on one CD for everything I
want to save.

People tell me it's over the top to put my garlic varieties in a
spreadsheet. They're probably right, but if you've seen my handwriting...


Software is a tool and can be a gardening tool. It's just
as much a tool as a hoe, or a rake, or a tiller. Some
people like one tool, some like another.

Pat