Do you have a gardening journal? I have journals for everything but love planning for changes in my flower gardens the most. I started a Gardening Journal late last summer.
This is my 2018-19 Flower Gardening Journal
Back in the fall when I completed my rose garden to MY satisfaction I immediately started thinking about my perennial garden. I knew I needed to be able to remember where everything was at the point in all of my flower beds so I started my journal. This journal has been active all through the fall and this winter with notes of whats to go and whats to stay. I’m including a few pages of my journal with color photos I took and diagrams of things to come. It’s relaxing to sit in my recliner on frigid nights going through the journal and my new seed catalogs planning for that precious spring to return! If you click on the pictures they will enlarge so you can see the notes and work ahead for the spring.
4 x 6 photos help me keep track of the area in the yard as well as what was there in 2018.
Some of my photos don’t have many notes because I’m still not sure of what will change in the area. I have lots of thinning and replanting to do in so many areas.
I have lists of plants that I gathered seedlings from and lists of seeds I ordered at the end of the season. They are being kept in a cool dark spot.
This is a diagram of a new bed that I plan to put in outside of the yard. My yard only has one area that gets a lot of sun so I’m spreading my wings to the yard between the house and pond.
Pinterest is a favorite go-to site for finding colors or plants with height or ground cover. When I find things I like and want to look into adding to my garden, I copy and paste a large group on a page and print it off and add to the journal for reference.
Are you thinking about your flower and vegetable gardens yet? Are you working on an orchard? Try a journal and see how things progress in the future!
I rotate crops and also write notes on successes and failures .. I also like planning my gardens each season. Keeping a record is a must 🙂
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I do the same thing Julie mainly because it helps me remember what worked best in which garden and what doesn’t work at all.
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I so tried to keep a journal of one of my garden parcels that I started from scratch a few winters ago. It was out in the forest, and had never been used for anything before. I moved plants there so that I could later get cuttings from them or move them to my new garden when I get settled. My records were PERFECT . . . . until someone found them and discarded them. I am TOTALLY bummed about it because it was the first time I had ever kept such perfect records, but I suppose I can not be angry about it. The person who discarded them does not think very clearly.
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