Dates to keep track of include seed starting, transplanting, germination, harvest and frost dates.Ĭrop harvest count: A list of the crops you grew and notes on when and how much you harvested. I prefer a monthly calendar for the garden over daily or weekly. There are slightly different variables to take note of for flower varieties versus vegetable varieties. Seed varieties/crop details: A place to aggregate all the info you find on your plants. Writing them down makes them a little more real and makes it less likely that I’ll fall behind on a goal or forget it completely. Garden goals: What I want to accomplish in 2017 and how to get there. Here’s what I have for my gardening bullet journal pages: Now I’m using some of its ideas to track what I’ve done in the garden and what I want to do next. Have you heard of bullet journaling? It’s a note taking system that really stuck with me over the last few years. I kept some notes, but a more diligent tracking of my moves in the garden would have made for a much more robust starting point for next season. Looking back on my first year of vegetable gardening, there are so many things I feel I’ve already forgotten. A gardener would sell their favorite trowel for information like that. Talk about an heirloom! That’s information that should probably be published. It was full of advice on the local growing conditions, her grandmother’s tricks and tips that she’d learned over probably decades of gardening. On a Twitter chat, I once heard a gardener say that she inherited a notebook full of gardening advice from her grandmother.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |