Make a Garden JournalMake a garden journal.
Make an easy garden journal that you'll use and refer to over and over again. A garden journal should be simple and useful. You can create a garden journal to keep record of what you planted, when you planted it, and which flowers work well in your garden and which not so well! It’s a great place to store your garden photos and landscaping ideas that you collect from garden design magazines, other gardens and outdoor places. Here is a quick, easy and very effective way to make a garden journal using a standard 3 ring binder. You can make one larger binder and keep adding to it year after year, or make one garden journal for each year. You will need:
Step 1- Make a garden journal cover using decorative papers and scrap book supplies. Cut the decorative paper to fit in the front pocket of the 3 ring binder. Glue on garden sayings, quotes or a collage of garden ideas on top of the background paper . Slip the cover into the pocket after all of the glue has dried. Step 2- on your computer, make a label for you journal using mailing labels . You can name your journal something fancy like, “Colleens’ Garden Ideas and Inspirations” , or just name it GARDEN JOURNAL , add the dates that the journal covers. Glue this on the front cover pocket. Step3- Add Page protectors for photos , paper that has 3 holes punched on the sides to write your notes , a few pages of graph paper that you can use for garden planning, and any pouches or pockets that will hold you garden seeds, article clippings, or dried flowers. Also add the tabbed divider pagers, one for each month.
As you design your garden using the graph paper, or take before and after photos, add them to the appropriate tabs. By the end of the summer you’ll have a garden journal brimming with photos and garden ideas for the next year.
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