Garden Journal — Why the Best Gardeners Keep One
In short: A garden journal is your garden's database. Sowing dates, yields, varieties, problems — knowledge that becomes invaluable after a few seasons and you won't find it anywhere else.
Garden Journal — Your Garden's Memory
A garden is a multi-year experiment. Without notes, every season starts from scratch.
What's worth recording:
- Sowing and planting dates for each plant
- Varieties and seed sources
- First harvest dates
- Problems: diseases, pests, what helped
- Yield ratings (1–5) with comments
Why it's worth it:
After 2–3 seasons you'll have data to answer: Which variety gave the best yields? When do frosts end in your area? What failed and why?Format — your choice:
- Paper notebook
- Spreadsheet
- App (Zielona Manufaktura has a journal module)
Minimal version:
Even one paragraph per season is something. Perfect is the enemy of good.zielnamanufaktura.pl
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