![]() The journal is a great place to make wishlists of plants, track bloom and fruiting times, record yields, and make note of seasonal reminders such as when you pruned the apple tree and the date of the last frost. You can record the year in progress by taking photographs or drawing sketches. Book stores offer beautifully designed journals with colorful artwork and bits of poetry. Blank books, calendars, scrapbooks, photo albums, accordian files, or loose-leaf binders all make practical, inexpensive garden journals. There are as many different kinds of journals as there are gardeners. ![]() Whether you just keep track of your basic plot plan or add in planting dates, weather, expenses, and your successes and failures or fill notebooks with pages of personal thoughts and observations, it is your choice. The extent to which you keep your garden journal is entirely up to. Vegetable Garden Planner Review: Christine Can you remember back that far? I know I can't! There is an old Chinese saying, "The faintest ink is better than the best memory." It is a good practice not to plant the same family of crops - such as nightshades, curcurbits, legumes, and brassicas - in the same spot for at least four years. Vegetable crops need to be rotated every year to avoid depleting the same nutrients from the soil and to discourage insects and pests from gaining a foothold. Keeping a garden journal is indispensible when spring planting rolls around. Even though I start out the year with every intention of keeping close track of things in a garden journal, I am usually so busy by June that my record keeping has degenerated into hasty notes scribbled on muddy scraps of paper. Unfortunately a lot of this gets lost when the gardening season revs up and we are overwhelmed with work. Winter is a great time for garden planning, We can make lengthy lists of plants we want to try growing, seeds to order, and drawings of new plot plans. ![]()
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