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Gardening Record Keeping Software
why? Why what? Pat -- Pat Meadows ----- I have been an avid gardener since childhood. I am also very much of a tekkie. That being said, I think a good scrapbook, leaves pressed on pages, of favorites, etc. would make a great gardening record. Technology, to me, takes away the charm of keeping a garden record. The charm is in the gardening process -- not in the technology. But that's me. ../z. |
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:12:32 +1300, Kelvyn
wrote: In article, says... On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:05:38 +1300, Kelvyn wrote: Pat, Sorry you could not get to the 'monsoon' download website, perhaps if i can find it i could email it to you. It had one feature which i liked....an option to draw/design a garden (guess you can do this with MSpaint, but i dont know how!!) I often forget exactly from one season to the next exactly where things were planted. I have also got the evaluation copy of my garden journal and like it very much. However ,i live in new zealand and the exchange rate with the $US makes shareware very expensive. I think Monsoon is gone, dead. But if anyone *is* able to find the site, please do it post it here or email it to me. Thanks. Pat -- Pat Meadows CLICK DAILY TO FEED THE HUNGRY United States: http://www.stopthehunger.com/ International: http://www.thehungersite.com/ |
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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 |
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Pat Meadows wrote:
Yet another joker. :( Hey, it's stuff like this that keeps my killfile from being boring. He posted the same response again. I'm not that battle-scarred, unless writing a printer "wedge" to insert CRLF delays on a VIC-20 counts. Depending on what you want to track, Excel works pretty well. I keep a yearly garlic ledger in a spreadsheet so I can follow yields, survival, etc. shameless plug To be found on my personal web page, in the .sig below. Warning: Only OCD types need look. /shameless plug As for your original question, pretty much lost in Usenet bit rot: what kind of record keeping are you concerned with? There are a lot of cheep shareware database apps if you want to emulate a card file, and I've seen mention of CAD software for the landscaping types. I keep a yearly Turbocad drawing of my garden with associated text file, so the drawing doesn't get too cluttered. Here's a snippet: ************************************************** *********************** 8/24: B8: Pole Beans, "Romano" (own) 3 teepees g 6/2 poor germ; re-planted w/sprouting seeds 6/15 B9: Blue potatoes, 36 sets (own; sprouting) g.5/31 Bush Bean Wide row "A" AKA future garlic bed 4' wide; 6X6 inches if not otherwise noted: C0: "Black Valentine" beans (own) 24' 5/28 Virtually no germ (too cold); re-pl w/D3 + D4 C1: "Sayamusume" Edible soybeans (Territorial) 1'X1' -8' 5/28 C2: "Vermont Cranberry" (own) 12' 5/29 g 6/10 C3: "Bright Lights" chard 4' X 8' 6/4 g.6/15 C4: leek "American Flag" own pl + 4 "Australian Brown" onion (own pl)6/4 ************************************************** ** And to give the Devil Her due, I do have a couple of text files chronicling things like garlic varieties, when and where I got them, descriptions of how they do here, etc. "I'm Gary, and I'm a gardener." Group: "Hi, Gary..." Cabin fever, big time! Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1200' elevation. NY WO G |
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"Pat Meadows" wrote in message As you undoubtedly don't know, I'm a battle-scarred Usenet veteran, having been on Usenet for about 15 years Hey, someone else who knows what Unix language is! I used to laugh at my friends, all of whom I converted over to the Internet, when they used that sissified Windows to get from one place to the other!! Now, no one even knows what I'm talking about if I mention IRC's or telnetting. Back to gardening, however, I downloaded "My Garden Journal" after reading your post on it, and I think it is a great little electronic "farmer's almanac" for me to use! I am not sophisticated enough to start scheduling out my planting times. Maybe after a year of documenting my results in the journal, I can use my successes and failures to plan for nex tyear! I've been gardening for some time, but have never been organized enough to document any of what I do. Which is unfortunate, because sometimes I have planted some really wonderful plants, and sometimes some real losers, but I can never recall which was which! |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:56:34 -0800, "DH"
wrote: Back to gardening, however, I downloaded "My Garden Journal" after reading your post on it, and I think it is a great little electronic "farmer's almanac" for me to use! I am not sophisticated enough to start scheduling out my planting times. Maybe after a year of documenting my results in the journal, I can use my successes and failures to plan for nex tyear! I've been gardening for some time, but have never been organized enough to document any of what I do. Which is unfortunate, because sometimes I have planted some really wonderful plants, and sometimes some real losers, but I can never recall which was which! That's the thing... plus I get confused and forget things if I don't schedule them in SOME manner. Yes, MyGardenJournal is a great little electronic 'farmer's almanac' - that's a very good way to describe it. Pat -- Pat Meadows CLICK DAILY TO FEED THE HUNGRY United States: http://www.stopthehunger.com/ International: http://www.thehungersite.com/ |
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"DH" wrote in message
... ...I downloaded "My Garden Journal" after reading your post on it, and I think it is a great little electronic "farmer's almanac" for me to use! I am not sophisticated enough to start scheduling out my planting times. Maybe after a year of documenting my results in the journal, I can use my successes and failures to plan for nex tyear! I've been gardening for some time, but have never been organized enough to document any of what I do. Which is unfortunate, because sometimes I have planted some really wonderful plants, and sometimes some real losers, but I can never recall which was which! I also downloaded both Journals. The garden software has come a long way since the last time looked at it. The only problem I see with SeedPlanner is the portion that's online. Since canceling broadband and going back to using a modem again it looks like it might be a bit low. -Olin. |
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I guess you use paper and pencil instead of a calculator, or do you use an
abacus yet? NS9G wrote: "Pat Meadows" wrote in message ... I'm interested in garden record-keeping software - freeware or reasonably-priced shareware. I've downloaded the following two programs and will be trying them out over the weekend: Seedplanner - http://www.seedplanner.com MyGardenJournal - http://www.mygardenjournal.com Does anyone use either of these, and have comments to make? Alternately, does anyone have recommendations for other programs? Might I suggest a pencil and notebook for your garden record keeping? You can carry it around with you. Windows won't cause it to crash and you will be much healthier if you get up from the computer and go out where the garden is. -- 73 de Bob NS9G |
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Since you like paper and pencil so much why don't you use that instead of your
computer to make your posts to the newsgroup. Just snail mail it to: IamadipshitbecauseIlike tospewshitwhenIdon'tknowthe answer. CA 90210 to NS9G wrote: "Pat Meadows" wrote in message ... On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:06:45 GMT, "NS9G" wrote: Might I suggest a pencil and notebook for your garden record keeping? You can carry it around with you. Windows won't cause it to crash and you will be much healthier if you get up from the computer and go out where the garden is. Oddly enough, I am aware of the uses of pencil and paper. I prefer the increased functionality of a software program which is why I asked (specifically) about a program... [I know it's not cool to announce that you're plonking someone but very, very occasionally I just cannot resist...] Into my twit-file you go... I imagine you'll enjoy the company of others there with a similar bent of mind. Pat -- Pat Meadows If I had realized what a nice person you are I wouldn't have bothered replying in the first place. But, since we are here, would someone please explain why a computer is more functional than a pencil and notebook. Is a computer more dependable? Is a computer more accurate? Is a computer less expensive? Is a computer doing any actual gardening? Is a notebook likely to crash and destroy all your records? I think perhaps the effort to meld two entirely different hobbies might prove counterproductive. -- 73 de Bob NS9G |
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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 |
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"Brian" wrote in message ... I guess you use paper and pencil instead of a calculator, or do you use an abacus yet? NS9G wrote: "Pat Meadows" wrote in message ... I'm interested in garden record-keeping software - freeware or reasonably-priced shareware. I've downloaded the following two programs and will be trying them out over the weekend: Seedplanner - http://www.seedplanner.com MyGardenJournal - http://www.mygardenjournal.com Does anyone use either of these, and have comments to make? Alternately, does anyone have recommendations for other programs? Might I suggest a pencil and notebook for your garden record keeping? You can carry it around with you. Windows won't cause it to crash and you will be much healthier if you get up from the computer and go out where the garden is. I didn't sleep through math class. I do most figuring in my head. Sorry to say I never learned the abacus but I did learn to not top post. -- 73 de Bob NS9G |
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NS9G wrote:
"Brian" wrote in message ... I guess you use paper and pencil instead of a calculator, or do you use an abacus yet? NS9G wrote: "Pat Meadows" wrote in message ... I'm interested in garden record-keeping software - freeware or reasonably-priced shareware. I've downloaded the following two programs and will be trying them out over the weekend: Seedplanner - http://www.seedplanner.com MyGardenJournal - http://www.mygardenjournal.com Does anyone use either of these, and have comments to make? Alternately, does anyone have recommendations for other programs? Might I suggest a pencil and notebook for your garden record keeping? You can carry it around with you. Windows won't cause it to crash and you will be much healthier if you get up from the computer and go out where the garden is. I didn't sleep through math class. I do most figuring in my head. Sorry to say I never learned the abacus but I did learn to not top post. -- 73 de Bob NS9G Is this better for you ? Sorry some other group I visit like top posting so they don't have to scroll to the bottom of every post not trimmed. Quick what is 27.4% of 6,894,577 The problem I have with you is if you don't have an answer...don't answer. Do you condem people that shop with a computer, do their banking and check writing with a computer. I mean why use microsoft word when you can use a typewriter. If you would follow your own advice you never would have got one of dem dar new fangled computers. |
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Funny thread :-)
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