Get your copy of the best damn garden planner around! Designed for gardeners by a gardener, The Garden Journal includes everything you need to make 2012 your best gardening year ever!
The 2012 Garden Journal is a downloadable, all-in-one garden planner, tracker and journal. It was designed for vegetable gardeners by a vegetable gardener.
The 2012 Garden Journal contains everything you need to get organized and stay organized through an entire year of gardening and beyond.
Proper planning and record keeping are essential if you want to harvest more from your garden, hit critical planting windows, cut down on unnecessary expense and come to understand the needs and timing of your own garden.
This Garden Journal will help you do all that – which mean you’ll successfully grow more great vegetables.
I designed this journal because I wanted a comprehensive, simple, stylish, flexible way to record my seed-starting, planting, harvesting and garden project activities but was unable to find anything on the market that suited my needs. Frankly, most of the garden journals I looked at were pretty useless. I wanted something functional and helpful; something that would help me grow the best edibles possible, year-round. The 2012 Garden Journal does just that.
Features of the 2012 Garden Journal:
Full-color Cover and Section Divider Sheets so you can quickly and easily find the information you need within your journal.
- Garden Planning Grid-Paper Sheets on ¼-inch scale with common bed size templates included, so you can virtually design (or redesign!) your garden as many times as you like with ease.
- Planning sheets and logs for all the essential tasks of gardening including: Goal Setting, Seed & Plant Ordering, Seed Starting and Transplanting, Pest and Disease Management, Soil Management, Harvesting, and Orchard Care. Many log sheets come in both detailed and simple styles, to accommodate both gardeners who like to record a lot and those who prefer to jot down just the basics.
- Complete flexibility – need more seed starting log sheets? Just print them!
- Monthly Checklist Forms, Month-At-A-Glance Logs, Journal-style Note Sheets and Photo Sheet – record and organize your garden activities the way you want to – use one, all, or a combination of sheets and forms to create the record keeping and journaling system just right for you and your garden.
- Simple and modern design.
- Reflection Sheets to ensure each gardening year is better than the one before – record your reflections and note what worked and what could have worked better.
- Garden Expense Tracker and Receipt Sheet – keep an eye on your actual gardening costs.
Setting up your Garden Journal is easy! Just print out the sheets, logs and forms (some or all, as your garden requires) included in this 91 page PDF, hole-punch the pages and add them to a 3-ring binder. For the best possible organization, I recommend you also have on hand several plastic sheet protectors for the Section Divider Sheets and a set of commercially available 12-month tab dividers. (Binder, sheet protectors and 12-month tab dividers are, obviously, not included in this PDF download.) Full instructions on setting up and organizing your Garden Journal are included in the download, or you can preview them here.
This Garden Journal is truly a labor of love. It is the solution to my garden organization needs and I hope it will be your solution as well. If you have feedback or suggestions for additional useful forms or sheets for a future edition, I want to hear it!
You can reach me anytime at nwedible@gmail.com.
Purchase and download the 2012 Garden Journal PDF and make this your best gardening year ever! Thank you for helping support Northwest Edible Life!
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