Northeast Gardening: Do you all make notes to yourself?, 1 by PrimroseSue

PrimroseSue wrote:
I guess I'm more organized than I thought. In the garden, I mostly just throw plants wherever there's room, or where I feel like. Then each Fall, I move many things around to where I think they should be. I try to keep a running "to do" list, and usually sticky notes all around my computer!

I keep a 3 x 5 card file on (most) my plants. Some I cut out the pic and info from the flower/seed catalogs. Others, I get info from the internet and print them out. This is usually one of my winter projects. I'd like to put them all in a big Rolodex someday.

I also made a Garden Notebook. I saw one advertised in garden catalogs a few years back and didn't want to spend the money on it, so I made my own.

I have sections on Winter Sowing, Gardening by the Moon, Companion Planting, Cottage Gardening, Yearly Orders, Garden Design (graph paper designs of each bed), Plant Notes & Observations ( my seed-sowing log, winter-sowing log, and A-Z tabs for plant notes), and Monthly To-Do Lists.

Here's the card files: