Vegetable Garden Journal: Recording Your Actions in Binette

Keeping a Record of Actions for a Planting

Have you mulched a courgette, pruned a tomato, or noticed a first flower? From the record of the relevant planting, adding an action allows you to select a type of task, its date, and an optional note. Categories include watering, pruning, mulching, treatment, fertiliser, and free-form notes.

Enter the date of the action or observation. This way, you can log a forgotten action afterwards and retrieve it in the timeline for that planting. For watering, also check the quantity and unit before saving: the form may suggest a value, which must correspond to the amount you report applying.

Writing a Note That Remains Clear

A short note can specify what the action type does not convey: the affected part, the material used, or what you observed. Here are fictional examples of notes, to adapt to your actual actions:

• Mulching: “Straw added around the base; path left clear.”
• Pruning: “Broken branch removed after windy weather.”
• Observation: “First flower opened this morning on this plant.”

A precise observation helps distinguish what you saw from a hypothesis: “two yellowed leaves at the base” records an observation without asserting the cause of the yellowing.

Distinguishing Your Entries from Calculated Guidance

Binette also provides growth tracking and care reminders, as explained in the App Store and Google Play listings. A growth stage indicator or watering reminder is calculated guidance; its presence does not prove the plant has reached that stage or that the action was carried out.

The journal preserves your observations. A note such as “first flower” records what you saw; distinguish it from the estimated stage in the growth tracking.

Removing an Incorrect Entry

For an ongoing planting, you can manually delete a journal entry. Verify the planting and date before removing the line, then record the correct action if necessary. This feature is particularly useful for removing duplicates or actions assigned to the wrong planting.

Understanding the Limits of the Displayed List

The list displays by default up to 50 recent events per planting, from most to least recent. This number refers to the display requested by the app: the absence of an older entry in the list does not necessarily mean it has been deleted.

To prepare your next vegetable garden plan, keep the dates, varieties, and observations you wish to compare from one season to the next. The journal tracks each planting without automatically comparing seasons.