A 3-ring Binder: Either a 1-inch or 2-inch binder is the best size to start with.Here’s what I used to create my vegetable garden journal: And with a 3-ring binder, I can easily add budget worksheets as I need them.

Right now I’m not interested in tracking those, but I might in the future. For example, some gardeners like to track their expenses to help budget for the next growing season. Personally, I used a 3-ring binder because it allows me flexibility to insert and remove sheets. And there is a variety of journals to choose from, whether it be a spiral notebook, 3-ring binder, or a commercially-published garden journal. What You Need to Start a Vegetable Garden Journal?Įvery journal is personal, including a vegetable garden journal. It’s tailored to your skill level and what YOU think is important to learning and improving your gardening skills. That’s what is so great about keeping your own gardening journal. It can be simple and basic, or comprehensive and detailed. Quite simply, it’s a record of your vegetable garden – what is planted where, how many of each plant, which plants thrived and which ones didn’t, and anything else worth recording that supports and improves your garden. The solution to keep my vegetable garden organized for years to come? Enter the vegetable garden journal.Īdmittedly, I should have started a vegetable garden journal back in the spring, but a gal has got to start somewhere, right? What is a Vegetable Garden Journal?

And I learned that while Lacinato kale grows well in my garden, we absolutely despise the taste.īut will I remember that next spring? Probably not. Next year, I’ll struggle to recall – Which crops did I plant? Was there enough of it? Did it grow well? For example, arugula grew amazingly in my garden, so I need more than this year’s 6 seedlings. Next year I can’t wait to plant another larger vegetable garden.īut here’s the problem. Some crops are growing like crazy, others are just stunted sprouts. And instead of the short-list of peppers and tomatoes, I planted a wider variety of veggies – eggplants, radishes, onions, lettuces, leeks, gerkins, celery, carrots, garlic, watermelon.Īnd now it’s the end of July. So this spring, I bought and sowed seeds for the first time. I was nervous that the trend would continue through the summer and my family wouldn’t have fresh fruits and veggies available. Fresh Produce: In spring when covid-10 first hit, my grocery store struggled keeping fresh produce stocked on the shelves.Quality Time: The whole family was home more (as were so many of us) so gardening was a perfect way to simultaneously occupy them and work on the house.Nothing too spectacular – a couple of tomato, cucumber and peppers, bought as seedlings from a big box home improvement store.īut this year with Covid-19 I dug more seriously into gardening (pun intended). Backstoryįor the past few years I’ve planted a vegetable garden. As such, I earn from qualifying purchases. This post contains affiliate links, including but not limited to, Amazon Associates.

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