January
2012
Creating a Garden Journal0
If you like gardening, generating a garden journal can be an enjoyable and useful project. Not only will you take pleasure in writing stories and adding photos that describe the garden, but it is additionally a good way to save important gardening details from year to year. If you have never kept a garden journal, here are some tips to get you started.
Be Sure to Keep Careful Records
A part of what makes a garden journal so great can be possessing old records to reference. When you record what kinds of plants and seeds you have grown in the past, you’ll have lots of information that can help you choose what you need to plant in the future. It can also be useful to keep records of exactly what weather was like, the way your plants did, and the size of the harvest. It’s also smart to record what kinds of insects you experienced problems with, and you ought to add the periods of time of the infestations and what steps you took to counteract the problem. You’ll hopefully have the ability to improve on your present year’s garden as you refer back to your previous gardening years.
Take Lots of Photos
Taking snapshots of the garden can be handy on a few different levels. In your garden journal, a photo will often take the place of one thousand words. By combining pictures with written records, you’ll be able to look back at a much more complete story with just how past gardens performed. When you are printing out your photos, have a few extra printed so that they can be displayed in picture frames throughout your home.
Include Some Journal Entries
Along with simply writing down the facts, you can also use your garden journal as being a kind of diary. Recording your thoughts and feelings about your gardening experiences can be a very relaxing and enjoyable activity. You ought to feel free to write all about whatever has importance to you personally. Years, from now, you will undoubtedly have a great deal of enjoyment from looking back at your feelings regarding the garden. Additionally it is fun to add journal entries on your framed photographs by writing a few sentences on your photo mat. These photos, when displayed in picture frames, may add a lot to your home’s overall beauty.
Clips of Nature
When keeping a garden journal, it can also be fun to add small snippets of nature. A sprig of a fragrant herb, a pressed flower, or perhaps a sketch of a blooming flower all can add a nice touch to your garden journal. In fact, these small snippets of nature can also be utilized to provide a decorative touch to your house. 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. In fact, these little mementos of the garden also make thoughtful and economical gifts.
Herbs, flowers, and other botanical materials from the garden may be used to make soaps, wreaths, lotions, fragrant potpourri, along with an almost unlimited number of other creative and delightful crafts.
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