subject: Preparing A Garden Journal [print this page] If gardening is an activity that you enjoy, a very useful project for you can be to generate a garden journal. Not only will you take pleasure in writing stories and adding photos that describe your garden, but it is additionally a good way of saving important gardening details from year to year. If you'd like to keep a garden journal but have never done this, below are a few ideas which will help you get started.
Maintain Careful Records
Part of the appeal of keeping a garden journal is developing records to look back on. By recording the kinds of seeds and plants you've grown previously, you will have lots of data to help you decide what to plant in the future. Other helpful information to record is what type of weather you had, just how the plants fared, and also the harvest size. It's also advisable to record pests you experienced issues with, as well as the time periods of infestations and what you did to counteract them. By referring to previous gardening years, you can hopefully make improvements to the current year's garden.
Take Lots of Photographs
Taking snapshots of your garden can be useful on a few different levels. As the old saying goes, your picture will be worth one thousand words. By combining pictures with written records, you can look back at a much more complete story with how past gardens performed. Needless to say, while you are taking garden photos, take a few extra so you can display them in picture frames around your home.
Include Journal Entries
Aside from simply recording the facts, you can also use your garden journal as being a sort of diary. It can be an incredibly relaxing and enjoyable activity to jot down your emotions and opinions about your gardening experiences. You should feel free to write all about whatever has importance to you personally. Years on down the road you will get lots of enjoyment from reading your thoughts and writings regarding your garden. You can also add journal entries to framed photos, simply by writing several lines of text on the photo mat. These photos, when displayed in picture frames, may add a lot to your home's overall beauty.
Bits of Nature
When you are keeping the garden journal, a fun idea will be to add "snippets" of nature. A sprig of a fragrant herb, a pressed flower, or a sketch of a blooming flower all can add an attractive touch to the garden journal. For that matter, these small snippets of nature can also be used to provide an ornamental touch to your home. Pressed leaves and flowers can be displayed in picture frames and can make beautiful, natural wall art. It is also a fun idea to use your pressed herbs, leaves, and blooms to make greeting cards or bookmarks. As a matter of fact, these garden mementos make affordable and thoughtful gifts.
Herbs, flowers, as well as other botanical materials from your garden may be used to make soaps, wreaths, lotions, fragrant potpourri, along with an almost unlimited variety of other creative and delightful crafts.
