Gardener's Journal Premium

Editors' ReviewDownload.com staffNovember 10, 2003Better suited for the compost pile, this program is too stubborn a tool to be useful for any busy gardener with a thriving garden to tend. While there are few programs in the market that are geared specifically for gardening, there's not much to Gardener's Journal Premium that should attract those with the green thumb. The program is basically a glorified diary set up as a series of forms into which you are supposed to log your entries. Entries are organized by date, and different sections let you enter details about the weather, or invoices (if someone's paying you to weed, for example.) The program itself is very large, and takes a long time to download. What's more, during testing we ran into a series of errors that were peskier than gophers after root vegetables. A short five-day trial period seems a bit short, and considering the price tag on this organizer, we'd like a bit more functionality.