I’m sitting on an abundance of varieties of crops, herbs, and various other seeds from wild harvested crop relatives or plants that would benefit from improvement. Not to mention germplasm for my crop breeding projects I’ve received from GRIN that are great on their own.
I’ve been considering cataloging everything to more efficiently plan growouts to replenish and share these resources locally and online.
Does anyone have a preferred program or app that’s preferably free and doesn’t use a ton of memory?
LibreOffice base is what I’m using. The tradeoff for the price (free) is a certain amount of learning curve (I’m not awfully tech savvy), but it’s well documented and well supported, so I can usually make it bend to my purposes.
I’m using Obsidian, esp. the feature called properties and base. I have a note for every ‘thing’ that has some significance. That ‘thing’ has properties (in collection, on wish list, species/type, place to get it, colleague who grows it). With ‘bases’ I can then ask for a list of, say, “all crops of this type [pumpkin] on my [wish list] that I can order from this place [Kokopelli]”.
The benefit with Obsidian or similar markdown-based program is that it is very fast. The documents only take up a few bytes each and I can search tens of thousands of my own notes at the speed of my own thinking.
Aye, it does the job… once I figure out how to make it do so. I’m using it to catalog my seeds, make notations, and all that. I was supposed to finish all the basic data entry during February, and then it got warm. Now I’m scrambling to prep and plant the garden before it’s swallowed up by grass. So now the database will have to be a summer project.
I’m suprised to find other GTS members also using libre office. I use it to take notes of all the plants I’m learning.
I’m using it to catalog my seeds, make notations, and all that. I was supposed to finish all the basic data entry during February, and then it got warm. Now I’m scrambling to prep and plant the garden before it’s swallowed up by grass. So now the database will have to be a summer project. 