Sunday, May 17, 2020

planting out started


my record keeping has not been good. I have tried keeping records in a word document, but the last notes were from  22nd of march.... so its been updated now.  but without information about what has been sown (or re-sown) in the greenhouse since then. I'm wondering if I should start a dedicated paper diary, or folder? Thinking as  typing - that a folder/ring binder might be a better idea, graph paper for plans could be inserted and poly pockets for 'bits of things' .
and the reason I collect wine bottles and bricks.... the  bottles lift the fleece off the plants, helping to protect them from frost and cats, when they're  bigger it can be adjusted or taken  off.

5 comments:

WILDSIDE said...



Claire, perhaps terrible to admit this, but I simply don't keep records or diary, just the blogging on & off and I don't keep those either! But the act of typing or writing does help me think it through and blogging I can do in the dark... well, whatever! Truth is, I don't like to track things very much. Or keep things. I do things very much willy nilly opportunistically in space and time... Somehow it works out. LOL

I like your idea for reusing bottles to lift up the fleece... Clever! I don't use fleece either, but may be I somehow should sometime... Perhaps an old clear plastic shower curtain would work? I occasionally have those. Past 5 AM now and I've got to get up!

Thanks for sharing your progress.

WILDSIDE said...

And your ideas.

clairesgarden said...

plastic might be ok for starting early stuff.. but would make it too warm for the veggies that like to be outside. garden fleece warms it up a bit and it also lets the rain through so won't have to water as much.

WILDSIDE said...

Claire, what have you decided to do diary wise? Are you doing the notebook? Did you ever make the junk journal? Too many questions?!?
(It's the middle of the night.)

clairesgarden said...

I updated the word document on the lap top for just now. but I think I'll go with a folder...with rings so that I can add pages and maybe poly pockets with any articles that I like or some favourite seed packets. not done anything about it yet. I might have one somewhere but have never really unpacked properly.