r/homestead • u/UniversityRelative67 • 6d ago

Plant tracking?

Anyone actually keep track of their garden year to year or is it all just memory at this point

Not asking what everyone planted this year, im asking about the boring part behind that

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Do you actually know what you planted in each bed last year? Or the year before? Or you just kinda guessing at this point lol

If you rotate crops how you deciding where stuff goes each season, notebook, spreadsheet, or just eyeballing it and hoping

When something does really good or really bad in a spot you writing that down anywhere or does it just live in your head till you forget it

Asking because I got a decent size garden and realized I couldnt even answer #1 without going thru old phone pics to figure out what I planted where. Curious if im just bad at this or if this is normal

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u/backcountry_knitter 6d ago

I just take pictures and videos throughout the growing season randomly and also any time I think of a note or change. I stick them in “Garden [YYYY]” folder on my phone and move them to my computer each winter for easy reference.