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Garden Journal Pages

20 May 2016 Comments Off on Garden Journal Pages

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Garden Journal Tags: pages, seed packet

Dear Fellow Journalers,

As I researched this topic more thoroughly, I found that a lot of gardeners embellish their pages with hand-made graphs and pictures of their flowers or produce. Here are some additional ideas from web sites and Pinterest.

~Sallie

Write a page onto a separate piece of paper and incorporate it into your journal page by using a seed envelope glued onto your page and tucking the journal page in it. You can download a seed packet from www.gardensillustrated.com Print out your color, illustrate the front panel and glue to the back side the page. Slip in the journaling page and fill in the rest of the page.

Journal a flower- Cut colorful paper into petals and a stem. Write your page onto the shapes and glue onto the page.

Here are some sample pages from Google and Bing:

March 9th – We had more torrential rain overnight. I woke up to a flooded garden this morning, but this time a little more than the previous event.

March 12th – After all the rain, followed by a couple of spring days over the weekend, I couldn’t wait to get out to the garden. I wanted to plant flowers but I wrenched my shoulder and now I have to figure out another way.

March 15th – I just walked through the garden and there is a lot to be done. The garden is alive with wisps of flowers peeking through the soil.

garden_journal_5 . GARDEN-JOURNAL-W-SEEDS . Vegetable garden

Garden Journal Prompts

18 May 2016 Comments Off on Garden Journal Prompts

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Prompts Tags: along in a garden, scents

Dear Fellow Journalers,

For those of you who need a written incentive to write today, here are a few prompts about gardening.

~Sallie

You can grow the garden of your choice without money or time as a hindrance. What do you grow and why? How do you keep out the rabbits?

2. Write about the scents of night flowers.

3. Have you ever been alone in a garden?

4. What are your thoughts when you turn soil or pull weeds?

5. Our gardens reflect who we are, what we need and what we are like. “How does your garden grow?”

6. Write about your favorite garden.

Garden Journal types and blogs

13 May 2016 Comments Off on Garden Journal types and blogs

by uniquelyyourscraftjournal in Paper Daydreams Tags: journals, planning

Dear Fellow Journalers,

Planning ahead with a garden journal can save you time and money. The journal will serve as a reference later, on what worked well and didn’t in your garden. You can record information such as where and when you planted seeds, pruning and fertilizing schedules, garden supply resources and web sites.

There are many journal options:

a. Homemade – decorate a plain composition book and add document envelopes to hold loose pages.

b. Shoebox – organize seed packets.

c. Homemade binder with printable pages.

d. Hand-covered store bought.

e. Software

f. On-line garden planners.

What can you journal?

There are so many topics here, that I probably missed one or two! Weather, locations of plantings, seed packet information, seed starting dates, photos, garden quotes, perennial dates, magazine clippings, websites, wish lists, chore lists to name a few.

Here are some different types of journals that I found:

Catalog your seed collection: Get your shoebox of seeds organized so you know what you have available to plant this year and when you should plant it.

Create a list of plants and seeds you’d like to grow – A Garden Planner

Record Keeping Journal: Includes current gardening information and planning tools such as garden layouts, visual references such as pictures (magazine clippings) bloom types and colors.

Garden Organizer: Grouped by plant type or location by color or season.

Photo Album: This form of garden journal lets you store garden picture details of plants and activities. A popular use of this type is to take digital photos of your plants through each stage of their growth. You can review what weeds look like so that you don’t actually cut the flowers by mistake.

Here are some blogs I found:

http://davesgarden.com/community/journals/

http://gardeninglaunchpad.com/

http://gardening.about.com/