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Xls garden tracker11/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is particularly helpful for vegetable gardeners and those who grow flowers from seed. The greatest power of spreadsheets, however, is not just their usefulness for organizing information in rows and columns, but their ability to do calculations. The chores are in the rows, organized by month, with a column for each year where I can check off chores as I complete them. I recently added a page to my spreadsheet with a list of spring chores. Each row is a variety of Siberian iris in her garden (listed in alphabetical order), with columns to record the date she acquired each variety, where she acquired it, a description of the flower color, who hybridized it, and how tall the plant is. The image above is of her spreadsheet list of Siberian irises. She had separate pages for different types of irises, for daylilies, for hostas, for shrubs, for roses, and for clematis. In my case studies of four gardeners’ record-keeping strategies, Harriet used a spreadsheet to keep lists of her special plant collections. Spreadsheets are also a great way to organize lists. I use a spreadsheet to record what is blooming in my garden, with each row as a week in my garden season, each column a flower bed, and a separate spreadsheet page for each year (which makes it easy to compare the current year with previous years). But for anyone with a basic knowledge of a program like Excel, spreadsheets are a very useful way to organize any information that lends itself to rows and columns. Among the 72 gardeners who completed my online survey of their record-keeping habits, only 38% reported ever using spreadsheets and only 13% used them often. One under-utilized tool for organizing garden records is the computer spreadsheet (e.g., Microsoft Excel). (See Gardeners’ Record-Keeping: Some Preliminary Results and Varieties of Garden Record Keeping.) In this one, I want to look at how gardeners can use some readily available record-keeping tools. This is the third in a series of posts that draw on my recent study of garden record keeping. ![]()
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