Nursery Lessons: record everything

   Old picture, old post but its(been)that time of the year again. Sowing, Nursery raising/propagation and eventually planting out. Tomatoes, onions, peppers, basil and other herbs?..Wonderful(fun) stuff isnt it?! ..if you swipe left. Also there is my face, myself sharing a photo with the kids 💓. I thought smiling would have been cheesy at that moment.

------One thing I have learnt so far and am trying to get better at consistently doing and have seen it to be so important is recording every single little thing that happens or is observed on the farm. That was a little issue i came across this year. Of course you record your basic info like seeds sown, variety, dates planted, location, quantity, problems and so on but in the hustle and bustle and flow of activities, certain details and little important things end up being procrastinated and forgotten to be recorded. Things like how much compost you put on a certain bed or what period a crop was ready to be planted or when it was ready, or cropping plans that changed slightly.  I overestimated my young memory but alas it fails me, you cant remember what you did last year like a mumu and you fall short and have to research again or guess, or start again and patch up. Im definately better and more efficient now. Have so many photos and words from last year till now. No slipping.

  
--------To be able to solve problems, progress, recreate, innovate or improve or even take stock, one needs to look back at what theyve done(and recorded obvs) to learn from it or even repeat, that way one can move ahead faster and land well. You can only look back because there is nowhere else to look. You can can look to your left and right, at others but their ways can only help a bit because everyones problems and ways are different. The situation, set up, soil, costs and even weather conditions of your habitat/space/farm/garden is unique. At the end everyone will have to find or come up with personal systems that work for them. Going off on a tangent here but you get the gist. record lol. You can only look back and/or within to go forward. This is applies to all spheres of life.

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