Not sure of your locale, but here is the planting calendar I (mostly) use. The planting times are for Central TX, but the moon phases for each month of when to weed, plant above ground cropes, and root crops would be the same for anyplace.
I don’t keep a journal, but it seems like above ground crop seeds germinate faster, and come up better by moon planting.
As for root crops, I couldn’t really say, as I can’t see the roots on my potatoes.or carrots right now, but the tops look good.
http://www.fanicknursery.com/Downloads/2014/Calendar_2014.pdf
As for journal, good idea, but with 400 or so varieties of tomatoes to oversee (along with everything else); I can't see that happening. :-)