How To Keep A Gardening Journal

Gardening can be an incredibly rewarding experience and can provide a beautiful aesthetic feature to your home. Keeping a gardening journal can both be an incredibly useful and immensely nostalgic tool to refer to as your garden progresses over time. In this article, we will look at 8 different tips to consider when keeping a gardening journal.

1. Get creative with your journal

The most important tip to consider when keeping a gardening journal is to get creative. A gardening journal doesn't necessarily need to take the form of an actual journal, although this can be incredibly useful, other methods such as taking photos, making videos, or even social media updates can serve as excellent tools for remembering your gardening progressions.

2. Documenting the weather

It is equally important to document the weather when you are taking gardening journal entries. Make sure that when you are taking entries, to also include information on the weather that day. This could provide an invaluable insight into the successes, and struggles, of your garden when noticed from season to season.

3. Design of the garden

It is essential to not only document the progressions of your garden, but also its design. Writing down what you have planted, where it has been planted, and even ideas of vegetation you would possibly like to plant in the future, are all incredibly important pieces of information to have on hand. This could also provide an interesting entry to look back on when pondering changes to the overall design.

4. Collecting Information

Another great tip to consider when creating a garden journal is the ability to include different snippets of information. For example, consider saving seed envelopes, writing labels for plants, or even simply writing down where you purchased the materials. Doing this can provide an amazing historic view of the garden.

5. Record observations

As well as taking detailed notes about the design, materials, and weather, consider taking observations. This could include things such as the plants' growth, lifestyle, or even any pests or diseases that may be present.

6. Pictures

Taking pictures and documenting them in your gardening journal can be an incredible tool. It is a fantastic way to remember the success and progress your garden saw, but also an incredible way to keep track of any pests, diseases, or changes in the season.

7. Comparing with the previous year

Comparing your observations and notes of one year to the next is an incredibly useful tool. This can help you gage the successes and failures of each year, the changing seasons and even the presence of any pests or diseases.

8. Share the knowledge

Finally, consider sharing the knowledge with other fellow gardeners. Hosting a get-together with your friends and family or even a community event to show your garden, or even just what your journal has created, can be a fantastic way to communicate the progress your garden has seen.

In Summary

In summary, creating and keeping a gardening journal can be an incredibly beneficial tool in not only creating a beautiful landscape, but also keeping track and learn of successes and failures. Consider getting creative and using multiple forms of media such as photos and videos, documenting the weather and design, collecting important snippets of information, record observations and compare notes from year to year. Finally share your knowledge with family, friends, and even the wider community. It can be an invaluable addition to any gardener's toolkit.