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Well I'm afraid I use the back of an envelope method for planning! Seems to work though. I did do a bit of a plan in Excel for a couple of years with this allotment but it's the extra seeds that I buy in the sales that never seem to get into the plan which cause the problems.

if it works flo ...

safronsue wrote:Decided i need to keep a journal about the gardening year and wondered what other gardeners do. Do you use online resources or make your own? if so what do you make notes of? there's obvious stuff like planting times and dates for harvest. weather? the moleskine do a journal for gardeners and i am tempted but then hey, maybe i can do better. whadyathink?

Use your coumputer documents and use the money you saved by not buying a moleskin to get more stuff to plant

I remember opening a shop over thirty years ago and proudly showing my father a cash register that cost me £150 (a lot at the time would have bought 450 pints of Guinness) and my father said 'And what was the matter with using an old tin box and ye having £150 extra in your pocket?'

I have been keeping a record of what I do and how long it takes since 13/5/11

Shouls make for interesting reading to some sad historian one day

I’m sort of half way efficient. Write down when things are sown, harvested, etc. But also attacks by pests and the weather. I now have records for about seven years, and it helps to see what was happening in previous years. Also gives optimism when there are almost no strawberries (there were kilos the years before!) . Puts things in perspective I suppose. I don’t record sorts or weigh to see if I am breaking even! I think it’s best just to record what I am interested in.

good ideas there marimba, especially about pests as it's easy to forget when things strike and forewarned is forearmed i guess.