Keep a Garden Journal ~ How & Why to Start
Many gardeners love taking and keeping notes of the growing experiences. They track their successes as well as failures and everything in-between.
Make time to keep a garden journal of all your activities. You will be glad you did!
They love keeping track of things like the weather, temperatures, planting times and garden designs so they can refer back year after year.
This is why starting a garden journals is such a great idea and a super way to simply get more organized!
Garden Journaling…..Start Yours Today…..
WHY I WISH I HAD STARTED THIS DECADES AGO…..
- I have been gardening for over 30 years and I have realized that I made a huge mistake
- This mistake is something that I want you to avoid
- The remedy is simple but you must take action now
- Please, please, please start your Gardening Journal today
- I was a doodler, note-taker and a garden planner
- And now that Gardening Journals are all the rage, I have realized my mistake
- I had tons of scrap paper notes on garden designs and layouts
- I had lists of seed varieties that I loved
- Things that I wanted to try….and those thoughts, designs and ideas are gone in the wind
- Stop right now and plan how to journal your gardening life
- Your Garden Journal can be as simple or as complex depending your lifestyle
- Remember to add how you feel in your garden as gardening is good for your health!
- It will become a treasure to you!!!
And, not only that……it will become an invaluable documentation of your gardening experience and history.
MAKE NOTES of the FOLLOWING:
- Weather
- Last Frosts
- Rainfall
- Snowstorms
- Planting Dates
- Harvest Dates
- Planting by the Moon Schedule
- Soil Amendments
- When the first Robins & Bluebirds return
- When you hear the first hummingbird
- Start Date for tomato seedlings
- Gardening Scriptures to Jot Down
- Your garden rotation plan
- Garden layout and designs
- Delicious garden-to-table dinners & recipes
- Homemade weed spray formulas
- Weird bugs or problems
- And of course, the first frost in last summer or early fall
- Etc…….
Even if it is just a notebook, make sure to record your gardening activities, ideas and designs!!!
Just plan on making some type of gardening diary with all your garden notes and journal entries.
A calendar or date book will even work! Or, get something like this A GARDEN RECORD BOOK
Even consider making some type of garden journal template to use year after year.
I wish I had started a garden diary ……and, to think that I was and still am a doodler!!!
I would have been a perfect Bullet Journalist!!!
Decades of designs, seed varieties, planting dates, garden layout, garden designs and on and on……..
Start Today creating your Garden Story♥
Child’s Gardening Journal
