About my system. I have two main folders on the computer. One is called
plant profiles and I have an outline I use for each and every
plant. It includes all the information you would find on a "davesgarden" fact sheet and then more besides. And If I knew then what I know now I'd have made it alittle different. Inside
plant profiles are two sub-folders. One is named "
plants I have" and one is named "
plants I want". Both of them are broken down into two sub-folders called "outside
plants" and "inside
plants".
The other major folder is called garden information and this is the catch all. I have all my
seed trading buddies addresses in it and all the trades I'm doing past, present, and future. There is a huge document that is last years garden diary and one that is getting even larger than that one that is this years garden diary. Then their are schedules of when to fertilize what so I don't forget and other calendar type documents for when to
plant different things.
The germination table is getting to be pretty big. I only put things on it that I have or plan to have or thought I might get but decided against. Do I sound a little detail oriented? I am. I hope to post the germination table in the
plant propagation section of the forum later in the year. It includes a few basic categories. The first category is when to sow the
seeds, the second category is the soil temperature, the third category is whether the
seeds need dark or light to germinate, and the forth category is how long they take to sprout. I may have the categories in the wrong order but those are the basic groups of information. But then there are things like chilling, soaking, nicking the
seed coats and other things that pretain to certain
plants and have to be included in order to make it useful.