When you start recording botanical events in a garden journal, you'll notice natural patterns from year to year. This info can help you choose plants and figure out when to time gardening chores.
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Start a Garden Journal: Recording your gardening events is a fantastic way to keep garden notes in an organized manner for future reference.
The best book about gardening is the one you write yourself.
Plant Tag I bought simple cheap journals at the dollar store. All the plant tags that come in the plants I purchase are glued to the pages of the journal. On the bigger tags I use the whole page next to it for information on that plant. I write where I purchased the plant, what year and the plants progress or problems. I also add all the information from the back of the plant tag , such as, how much sun the plant needs etc... It's been really helpful in knowing when to fertilize in the Spring. I like this type of journal for my perennials, it's secured with an elastic band. I can store the tags until I have time to put them in the journal. Pages from my Plant Journal; Gladiolas This is why I started keeping a journal. As you can see when the Gladiolas bloomed they do not look like the ones on the label of the pkg. Flowering Mother of Thyme I keep a separate journal for seeds and annuals.. Keeping these journals is a lot less trouble than you think and it's sure been helpful learning where to buy and where not to buy. I was surprised at the brands of plants and where they were purchased did depend on their success or failure. This was especially helpful with seeds and very small plants.
The Benefits Of Keeping A Journal And How To Get Started.The benefits of keeping a journal are far reaching. It's very cathartic and keeps you organized.
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Keeping a diary that records your successes, failures, and noteworthy events in the garden is a wonderful way to learn and grow as a gardener. Find out why you need a garden journal and follow these steps to get started (and stick with it).
it's not too late to start! Instead of trying to remember the recipe for that new natural pest recipe, jot it down in your garden journal instead!
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Keeping a garden journal is a fun, fulfilling activity that creates a complete record of your garden. This article shares garden journal ideas to help you learn from your success and mistakes, and imp
No matter if you have started your garden or not, this garden journal will help keep you on top of your seeds or plants. Get this free printable over on our site.
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Garden journal photo: Seayard on Flickr Winter is a great time for planning, dreaming, and collecting your ideas for recording in a garden journal. There’s no “garden variety’ garden journal. One person’s journal may be solely for record keeping while another’s might be a chronicle of experiences, a memory book–or both. Whether it be a […]
Free gardening journal templates, with seed sowing schedule, plant spacing, seed longevity charts, seed purchase log, planting and germination records and more.
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Free gardening journal templates, with seed sowing schedule, plant spacing, seed longevity charts, seed purchase log, planting and germination records and more.
