For the past three or four years I have kept a garden journal. I use a binder to write down ideas that come up through the year. It is best to use a binder so it is easy to add extra pages and remove pages to copy or share.
I keep my ideas, dreams and realities in this binder. When I have a new idea I jot it down, this way I do not have to remember the idea until Spring, I can just review it in the journal. When I see something I like in a magazine I tear out the page and staple it inside.
I take pictures of my garden as it grows to have a visual record of my plants and flowers. I write down the things I plant and sometimes staple the pictures from the packaging. This way I know what I planted and what it looks like. It is especially helpful when planting bulbs, I staple pictures and put notes about them. Where I planted them, even where I purchased them.
This log helps me keep on track for this year, and will be a great help next year. For example, when I picked the first tomato, pulled the first radish or list a new flower to try.
I keep my ideas, dreams and realities in this binder. When I have a new idea I jot it down, this way I do not have to remember the idea until Spring, I can just review it in the journal. When I see something I like in a magazine I tear out the page and staple it inside.
I take pictures of my garden as it grows to have a visual record of my plants and flowers. I write down the things I plant and sometimes staple the pictures from the packaging. This way I know what I planted and what it looks like. It is especially helpful when planting bulbs, I staple pictures and put notes about them. Where I planted them, even where I purchased them.
This log helps me keep on track for this year, and will be a great help next year. For example, when I picked the first tomato, pulled the first radish or list a new flower to try.
Here is a great example of taking a picture of the bulbs to plant.
This is a picture of where I am going to plant them.
The final picture of the flowers blooming. Actually, I didn't remember planting these and I didn't know what they were called. But lucky for me I had taken pictures, so now I know what they are called and I can buy more or tell others what they are. They are one of the first flowers to bloom in the Spring.
