Keeping a Journal For Garden Planning

This is the time of year when the seed catalogs and are available in casting and we can browse and dream of our gardens for the current year. A little planning can help get you what you want out of it your garden and save time, money and frustration. A garden journal can be a very valuable tool when planning your garden. You can keep your garden journal in a spiral bound notebook, or something that appeals to you. The bookstores have journalsespecially for your garden, if you feel like.

The first thing you want to do when planning your garden is to find out what you want out of it there. A good way to do this is to ask yourself some questions and take note in your diary. Are some questions to yourself:

~ Do you want fresh vegetables on the table through the summer, or you want more than for canning or freezing?

~ Would you like some fresh herbs to make a compliment, the vegetables,Herbal teas, or give as a gift?

~ Do you want your garden with colorful flowers of the season and you want extras for cutting and place in vases to decorate your home?

~ Do you want your flower beds, flowers have, vegetables, herbs and fruit, or just flowers?
~ Is there a new plant you want to grow?
~ Where will you plant anything you want to grow?

~ What kind of garden wish - holiday, formal and informal education, etc.?

~ Do you want to save a littleMoney by using seeds or you want to save some time by buying plants?

~ How many plants you need for a specific area?

~ If you have time for all that you want in the garden?

One way to get ideas for your dream garden, if you pictures in magazines or catalogs that are to you. You can insert these images into your journal, or keep them in a folder in the vicinity. When driving in the city, look at the yards of others and try to remember what youhappy about it. Take notes of what appeals to you.

Once you know what you want, by the above questions and taking note of what you will like it, the decisions that can grow the plants. Here are the catalogs can be a valuable tool. You can also gardening books. The catalogs and gardening books will list names of plants, whether in your area, plant size, growing plant care and other information, such as flower color.

If you have plannedPlants that grow on you, where you buy the seeds or wait until the sale of plant nurseries to start. You can choose from a plant in order through a catalog and they send you to your plants ship date. This can be very handy.

When you start the seeds, it is advisable to find out the school year starts, and write them on your calendar or in your garden journal. To find out when the seeds start to see the number of weeks for the germination time onthe seed packet back and count that amount from your last frost date.

Your journal can be a valuable tool in the next year, when plans. Restrict yourself not just writing in your diary now. You can take notes throughout the year about how well certain varieties of plants has done for you, new plants to try, and everything that will help you in your gardening efforts. Writing and reading your magazine adds another dimension to the gardening fun - try it, I believe thatlike it!