Garden Journals / Diaries

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• Penny_Forthem Posts: 455

  October 2023

  Kept mine a few years now.
  Varieties, dates of sowing/germinating, weather,  first crops....anything you think is useful.
  At the back I keep lists of things to do and tick them off.
  Keep a pen handy with diary.
  At the end of the year, I can decide what to grow next year.
  Does that help?

  Beautiful North Wales - hiraeth

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  October 2023

  You can include photos of parts of your garden at different times of year, which can help you plan for adding colour or contrast when all the foliage has died down. 

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  October 2023

  I use a WordPress account (only visible to me), where l record seed sowing, planting etc. I sometimes include a few photos but generally it's used more as a reference tool, so l can compare the current year to previous ones.

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• ViewAhead Posts: 866

  October 2023 edited October 2023

  I note down things done, eg cuttings potted on or whatever.  Plus I keep a record of the date of first and last flower for most plants.  It is interesting to see which go on longest, and which flower on practically the same date every yr seemingly unaffected by the weather conditions.  A wet spring appears to encourage longer-than-normal flowering seasons for shrubs but not perennials. 

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• Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

  October 2023

  I've kept annual hand-written garden diaries for over 15 years. I use a lined Oxford Press A4 notebook (keeps my handwriting neater!) with the dates in the left hand margin. Any special notes and difficult Latin spellings I put in the back together with a list of the more expensive plants and the date I planted them.  I usually note the weather, what I've done in the garden that day and what I need to do. I frequently re-read previous years.

  North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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• nick615 Posts: 1,487

  October 2023

  I'm not as sophisticated as others.  I faithfully maintain a general A5 week-to-view diary with bank holidays, birthdays, renewal dates etc. and prompts for when to try e.g. the spuds @ 14 weeks after sowing.  All the more detailed stuff is in a separate ring binder.

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  October 2023 edited October 2023

  I came across some old notebooks a while back @Lizzie27.
  They were from the late eighties/early nineties ,so referring to my last garden and the beginning of this one.
  Must admit it was very nostalgic reading, plus looking at the plant labels stuck in with yellowing bits of sellotape 

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