If you try growing things you don’t typically eat but think you should, you’re already setting yourself up for failure. Go a little crazy on this step but also be realistic in terms of what you actually eat on a weekly basis, not what you think you should eat. Think about what you buy on a weekly or seasonal basis and go from there.
Start with what you’d like to eat or grow in the garden. What do you like to eat? What flowers do you like? If you only want to grow flowers, these journaling techniques will also help you stay organized. The most important thing is getting them on paper.
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Quick notes are great, but feel free to elaborate to work out ideas from your head to the paper. If you don’t have a plan, you won’t be very efficient in executing your ideas-also spoken from experience. The main tip, and most important, is to have a plan.
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I’m taking advice from Amy Stross at Tenth Acre Farm, a wonderful blog about how to create a permaculture landscape in a suburban setting. Keep it simple or get creative- keeping mine simple this time around.
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Or better yet, get a prenumbered book.Īs the following steps are completed in your garden journal, write the titles and page numbers in the Index and continually update the index throughout the year. Just do 10 or 20 pages at a time as this is tedious and if a mistake is made, only a few pages need to be renumbered and not the entire book-spoken from experience. The titled Index page and following 10 pages will be the Index.Īfter the Index, begin numbering the pages. Title the first page as Key and the next page Index. It’ll make finding information later easier. I highly recommend leaving the first 12 pages blank to serve as a key and index. I'm keeping the garden journal layout simple for ease of use. When you have the time, feel free to have fun with your journal through sketching. Keep that in mind if you’re a perfectionist! Normally I would use something a little nicer but this was lying around and it doesn’t create a mentality of every entry needing to be perfectly executed, as often seen on social media. I’m currently using a simple gridded notebook with a simple layout. Pick something you’ll like but nothing too fancy, as it’ll be taken into the garden where it will most likely get dirty and wet. It can be as simple as a college notebook or nice as a Moleskine. If you’re a journalling beginner find something with lines, grids or dotted grids.
Pick a Journal You’ll UseĪny blank book will do. If you’d like a premade program check this out: I’ve never used it so I cannot say whether it is useful or not. Most of the techniques can be modified on the computer as well if you prefer electronic keeping. This guide is mostly for those who like to write in a notebook or journal and is especially good for those who enjoy Bullet Journaling.
In order to improve, records need to be kept of what happens in a garden to hopefully cultivate a better observer and a better gardener. There are so many projects and techniques that I’d love to learn and experiment with, it gets difficult to keep track of them. The Kleingarten is fairly large it’s two allotments as one, not to mention the Balkongarten. I started a garden journal in 2019 because during 2018 I thought, “Nah, I can remember everything: what worked and didn’t work, dates plants sprouted, last frost date, etc.”, but, in all honesty, the human brain has a terrible memory for so many minuscule details. It has really helped keep life organized, so in the spirit of staying organized, I decided to create a garden journal using the same techniques.īonus: stickers can be used to personalize it! This one's from the Herdhover project, a friend of HTD! Post college I stopped using the planner as the activity level dropped but in the past few years, I found myself needing to record events and thoughts again, and came across bullet journaling. Feature Article Creating a Garden Journal using Bullet Journal Techniquesĭuring my final years at college, I created a crude version of a bullet journal to keep track of all the various classes and activities.
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