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RHS Gardener's Five Year Record Book

LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
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I saw it recommended on here and got one for my birthday,  with the plan to start using in earnest at the begining of 2018. It certainly looks much better and more practically designed than others I've seen.  But I'm doing what I always end up doing with this sort of thing - agonising over exactly how to use it best. I know that if I don't start then it will become another thing that doesn't get used, and I do really need/want to keep a record.

Should I use a double page spread per week of the month (there are 5 spreads per month)? Or should I just start and see how much I fill? Should I put the date by everything I write or just the week? And so on...

Would anyone be willing to share how they use theirs? Even post a photo of a sample page? Or even if you use a different way of noting stuff, it would be really interesting to actually see an example.

Yours, from an inveterate procrastinator.

'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
- Cicero

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    I've been given one for Christmas (thank you Wonky image) so I'll be interested in responses to your query LG image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Have you made a start on it yet, Dove? I don't want to get too hung up on the 'right' way (I know there's no right way), but I keep picking it up and then can't seem to bring myself to commit anything to paper! Silly I know, and I've really wished I'd made more notes over the last couple of years. I don't want to have the same regrets in a year's time.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    No I've not started yet LG ... We've been away. i thought I'd start by recording our NYD flower count in it but haven't thought how/where. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    use a pencil? image

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    I have a couple in the cupboard. I will dig one out and take a photo of a sample page.

    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    That would be fab, Hogweed. And thank you Philippa. I just need to p-p-pick up a pencil!

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I've actually been filling it in, one double page spread per week, since the beginning of January, and have hardly forgotten a day (I only write in if I've actually done something though, so the weather is only recorded on those days). It's a bit haphazard, with lots of gaps, but better than nothing and I hope that as time goes on it will form a good picture of what was happening when. I'm just pleased I got on with it. How is yours going, @Dovefromabove?
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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