I would just like to introduce myself to this Community Forum. I am Laurie and my wife is Kathy. We have started to get seriously into gardening within the last year. We live near the north east coast of England in the county of North Yorkshire.
We are both experienced computer users, for many years now, and decided that we would like to record our gardening practices and planting schemes on computer.
We have just started to evaluate "Ideas Genie Pro" and so far are very impressed with it. The current software we are using is
called "My Garden Journal" but want something more flexible and detailed. It's much more basic than Ideas Genie Pro but one
feature that it has, that Ideas Genie Pro doesn't have, is a module for recording daily weather conditions. It has selection boxes for; [1] Conditions (sunny, cloudy, overcast, raining, windy, etc.), [2] Sunrise/Sunset, [3] Moonrise/Moonset, [4] Temperature (High )/Temperature (Low), [5] Barometric Pressure, [6] Rainfall, [7] Wind Speed/Direction, [8] Wind Chill Factor, [9] Humidity Level. Options to use Metric or Imperial measurements, and Fahrenheit or Celsius. Many of these variants can be obtained from your local online weather service - I use ww.bbc.co.uk/weather/, but we can do most of them ourselves.
We find this is particularly useful, having the ability to look back to see what specific weather conditions prevailed around the time we experienced a notable plant failure or success, for example.
I have mentioned a weather module to the program developers as a possible consideration in a future upgrade, but they wanted me to mention it on this Forum first to see if it would be of interest to anyone else.
If anyone feels this would be a beneficial suggestion then please make your thoughts known here.
Anyway, my wife and I hope to gain much more knowledge and experience through exchanging ideas with other like-minded
garden enthusiasts on this Forum, and hopefully pass on our experiences too.
Bye for now.
