Record Keeping
I started this blog to help me keep track of what I planted when, what worked and what didn’t. Â I’m not one for keeping notes on paper and at the time I started this I couldn’t find software that I liked that did what I wanted. Â I recently looked again as it has been years since I last browsed the offerings. I did like an Android program called Garden Time. Â I’m on a trial now and may end up purchasing it but it still isn’t exactly what I am after. Â I auditioned a couple of other programs for the desktop rather than the phone and nothing really did what I wanted. I gave up and decided to build a web based version using a mySQL database. Â I’ve put together tables for plant types, varieties, plantings etc. Â I still have to build a harvest table. Â In addition to the blog posts I take photos with my phone whenever I do anything so filling the entries should be fairly easy if I ever get the time to finish it. Â I haven’t done any of the coding yet but have most of the variety table filled using a db tool called Navicat. Â I’ve also downloaded and imported historical weather data. Â Not garden specific but close enough to give me something to play with. Â Eventually I’ll probably incorporate info in the tables with the blog somehow even though exactly what that will look like has yet to be determined.