Best Ways To Keep A Garden Journal

Keeping a Garden Journal is a great way to learn from past experiences.

It is also a good way to keep track of various plants, trees or bushes you have. You can use one to keep notes about common diseases garden and plant pests, watering and soil requirements and a lot more besides!

You can use a Garden Journal for a lot more than simple record keeping and garden maintenance though. Over time it can become a fantastic scrapbook or historical reord of your personal adventures in the garden.

When you buy a new plant for the garden you can take a picture of it and add it to your garden journal. Then you can add information which will help you in the future when you can't quite remember what the plant's name is.

So add a record of the latin and common names in your journal. Make a note of what the requirements for the soil, sunlight and water are. If you are able to discover more information perhaps about diseases and any pests you need to be aware of then put that into your garden journal too.

Once you have set it up then you need to ensure that you make regular updates to your Garden Journal. How often you do this is really going to depend very much on you, however once a month is probably the minimum you want to aim for.

You want to take a new picture of any plant you have included in your journal every month or two. You should make additional notes about how the plant is doing. If you prune it, then you will want to take a before and after pictures and make a note of how well it responds to trimming.

Your Garden journal can also be used to sketch out new ideas for garden bed designs, or to keep pictures of other gardens and plants you like. You could also clip pictures from magazines, or add pictures taken whilst on vacation or visiting someone else's garden.

Imagine the pleasure your garden journal is going to bring you in the winter time. If you live in an area which gets cold, wet and miserable during the winter months, then you can grab your garden journal and look at your ideas and plans for your garden. You can review how far your plants and flowers have come since the beginning and think about your plans for the year ahead!