Keeping a Garden Diary
Why Keep a Garden Diary?
One of the best things you can do if you want to be a really successful organic gardener is to keep a garden diary.
Maybe it sounds like a chore to you, I don’t know. But as you go through the seasons you’ll be ever so grateful that you took a few notes.
I don’t know about you, but my memory just doesn’t serve me the best any more – and I’m not that old! Unless I write it down, I can’t remember when I planted this row of carrots, or the three zucchini plants, or when I last added organic fertilizer. My gardening diary has come to my rescue many times.
Keep labels in the garden of what you planted and when – then transfer that to your garden diary so you have a record of it in that season. For instance, you might plant three or even four successions of corn over spring and summer, so you need to record the details. That way you can look at it through winter and decide if you need to change the amount you planted, the timing or the fertilizer needs to make sure you put in enough this season to meet your family’s needs.
You can get yourself a handsome notebook from a department store or news agent to record all your information and thoughts. I highly recommend it. It will become your garden “Bible” over the years.
If you’re not sure how to go about it, or you’d rather it was already done for you, a garden diary comes as a great bonus with this e-book entitled the Organic Food Gardening Beginner’s Manual.
The diary bonus has templates for everything you need in your garden diary that you just print out, including:
…a graph for your plot,
…soil preparation details,
…seed raising details,
…planting out records
…monthly calendar
…things to do lists
…individual plant profile records
…this season’s overview
…things to change next season
…thoughts & notes
Then all you need to do is fill it in with your own information about your organic gardening experiences.
