Gardening

When I started, I meticulously logged everything into a classic notebook. Just things like "planted lettuce", later "lettuce died because of frost", then "replanted lettuce", "first lettuce harvest", "lettuce bolts except variety X", to give examples.

The use of that was that I could look back and see when I went wrong and what I was doing right, facilitating faster learning. Also I could create a monthly to do-list from the entries. I did this for three years.

I used Google tables (practically Excel) to plan the vegetable garden. Seeding and planting times go in one sheet, then one sheet per year, one line per garden row (one meter lines separated by 30cm in my case), into blocks of lines to facilitate rotation. After a few years, I stopped the massive experimenting and cut down to things that worked. The plan is stable since 2018, I modify on the fly, often according to the amount of seedlings I made.