I'll get right to my query if you'd like to skip my below belly-aching:
I'm really interested in how anyone who keeps annual records of their garden, does so?
What's been most functional for you? And what hasn't?
I've been terribly remiss in not starting some type of garden journal when I started gardening in earnest a number of years ago. I've thought about how I might keep a journal of all plants (dead and alive), dates/location of purchase, care, experiences, how to's etc. I've seen beautiful garden journals kept in sketch books with accompanying water color paintings and sketches of said garden(wow!) with notations for each painted/sketched plant. I've seen amazing and extremely functional (yet intense) spreadsheets to keep records of one's garden. I've seen binders with photo's of each plant in the garden with an accompanying write up. And I've seen combinations of the preceding examples.
I absolutely have to start a garden journal this year. Even just keeping dates and notes in chronological order of garden tasks and perhaps some sections on how to's etc in a bound notebook would be heads and shoulders above my lists and notes I've jotted down here there and yonder. And my bookmarks on my computer have become unwiedly and I usually end up googling something again and again. I do a great deal of research on things I grow and problems I have which in time I'll forget if I don't make record of it and what I tried, how it worked etc., etc... So if you've read my belly-aching and forgotten what on earth I'm asking: I'm really interested in how anyone who keeps annual records of their garden, does so? What's been most functional for you? Or not?
I'm really looking forward to everyone's responses and hoping it sparks a fire for me to get a handle on this before yet another year passes me by and I'm asking my plants, again, now how many years have you been here?!
