With the beginning of our porch garden I’m creating tools to track our efforts. My primary programs are MySQL & the PHP language. The same tools allow me to manage our To Do List but I plan to do more for our tracking tools. I’m creating several databases. A Harvest database to record what, when, and how much is harvested. A Planting database that will have details about what was planted, replanted, where, etc. Plus I’m going to add a Weather database to track temperatures and weather conditions.
Once I have that information in the database I’m able to craft a wide variety of web-based reports and pages. First on my list is a calendar that will compile information from all of those sources and display it in a standard monthly view. Plus I’ll add plugins to the blog that will display a variety of information from the databases.
All of these tools will let us track our progress gardening from our initial efforts here in the apartment to expanded efforts once we move out of the apartment (hopefully next year).
