I never looked at the software they are talking about, but I think it will
give more info then just the date. Like maybe keeping track from year to
year of how long from planting till harvest, and by just doing a search pull
up the info. I imagine some software you could even put in the amount of
rainfall, average temp ect...I know commercial farmers do it that way.

An example would be lets say you had the best sweet corn ever this
year.....how would you duplicate that next year without data. The software
could say when the ears formed we had 3 inches of rain that week, 1 the
next, then 2 weeks of no rain ect....Say you side dressed the corn with
fertilizer a week before the tassels formed and the ears were small that
year, you could pull up the previous years and see what you did different
that year. Otherwise you may blame the weather. These were just examples I
have no idea how much rain would be good for corn nor do I know when its a
good time to fertilize. But once you have "DATA" from previous years that
you can pull up in a few seconds you will have a better idea of what works
and what don't.



Steve Harris wrote:

I'm interested in garden record-keeping software - freeware
or reasonably-priced shareware.

Windows Notepad. The F5 key inserts date and time and then you just type
free text. Free with Windows

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com