Anyone else as 'sad' as me?

We all like a good crop from our 'edibles', but I was just wondering if I'm the only 'saddo' in the village? (as my family have taken to calling me :cry. Y'see, there are many and varied pencil scribblings on the cupboard door above my kitchen scales where I meticulously weigh each 'harvest' of each veggie, write down the weight and then add up the various totals of each fruit/veg at the end of its cropping.

My family think I need 'help' - I maintain it's a scientific analysis of the cropping rate of different varieties (not to mention an excuse not to clean that particular cupboard door!!).

Is anyone else as sad?

 

Yes!! :lollol:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/julieparishruralgardener/3721576881/

This was part of my last years gooseberry crop from three bushes, (left on a bit longer than usual and getting slightly past it but still fine for gooseberry and orange jelly etc.)
I don't write on kitchen cupboard doors - but what a quirky form of interior design and recording local history!
If anybody peeked in my diary in the hopes of juicy gossip or philosophical insights...they would be more likely to come away knowing which hens laid best and how many apples I picked from which tree!!
Sad? No, just content with the little things!

 

Personally, I'm a more chaotic gardener. I like to just play it by ear, wander round the plot seeing what's ready for my tea.

I did try, on Monty Don's advice, to keep a Gardening Diary, but gave up. It's difficult after a day's random pottering, snipping here and sowing there, to write down everything you've done.

I do know people, especially keen allotmenteers, who keep meticulous records though. Nowt wrong with that!

 

Thats interesting Shiney, how do you get to be a seed trialer ?

I used to trial fags, till they gave me some with no nicoteen in & I went cold turkey at work :usr:

It makes sense to keep a yield record, not that organised meself, but it could be used as a soil fertility indicator as well ( factoring in the weather of course)

 

Just as "sad", I have always kept a diaryfor the garden, in which I write up my obs from month to month, although I haven't yet weighed anything............just give me time though lol.

Last note was yesterday in which I observed how stunning dark purple gladioli look amongst the fiery orange crocosmia and how I must get my hands on more lol.

 

Not a detailed or organized as you lot, but I keep an old diary which I put details of wild food that I've foraged & also decent fish catches. By using the same diary over lots of years, i'm slowly building up a what to look for at that time of year book.

Things like rosehips, puffball mushrooms, samphire, sprats & things that roll off the back of the mobile shop van.

 

Not sad at all. I often wonder each year if my crop of runners or whatever was better than last years and deliberate ..at least you have a answer.

 

Hi Fidgetsmum, no I don't weigh things now, but I do keep a notebook of planting dates, varieties and how well they did at the level of good, bad, awful.
I also award prizes and keep a record of great performing plants.(My daughter doesn't know about that - so Sh!)
And I take photographs of my vegetables. My daughter does know about that and thinks it's lunatic behaviour. But here's some of my veggies.
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Love that chilli picture. Gorgeous!

 

Blimy!! What an organised lot you are. I just keep a check on what and where to rotate crops.
John

 

You're NOT sad!

I've kept a gardening diary since September 1972 and can tell you, for instance, that I paid 28p for 12 King Alfred daff bulbs on that day.....

 

Now, reading all this I am more determined then ever to keep a gardening diary.
I have been keeping a journal for myself in the last 6 months so I don't think it is going to be too hard to move on to keeping gardening notes but most days it might just have things like...''looked out of the kitchen window at the garden.'' type of notes.
Yet, it is a start and it can only get better.
I'm off to get my gardening folder sorted out as soon as I get home.

I like the idea and will also let everyone know if I start to weight the produce.

Lining up all the bottles and jars and tins in my kitchen cupboard so all labels face front is normal for me!!

 

That's why I do it Shobna, the garden can always be better so I make little notes about that-which plant looked good amongst that bedding, this bulb did well planted at such and such a depth and not at another etc etc.

It really just amounts to a drawer full of exercise books all with bits and pieces-little doodles, plans, ideas etc.