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"My Garden Journals For The Garden Of Weedin"

January through December and every month in between, there is always something going on around this place the Hillbilly Gardener calls home with regard to gardening and being outdoors. With the passing of the years, many things have changed and taking time to “smell the roses” has taken on more importance. But, even this has become a valuable gardener resource. We've always made an effort to keep some form of gardening record of our efforts. Can one garden without keeping garden journals? Of course, and probably most gardeners with gardener soil under their fingernails will never jot down a single note in a garden history journal. Many of these folks will also do quite well. But for the most part, the gardener who keeps a backyard journal, takes pictures and makes plans will have far fewer mistakes and enjoy far greater success than one who doesn't have garden journals as a gardener resource for help planning a garden.

Additionally, the gardener who keeps some form of gardening record or backyard journal learns more because they tend to make garden bed planning decisions based on hard evidence of what has happened in the past and what they want to do differently, rather than a guess and trusting a memory that often fades with time and age. They can see trends and changes occurring in their surroundings that may be too subtle to grasp otherwise and make changes quickly. And if a person with gardener soil under their nails is into low budget gardening like the Hillbilly Gardener is, garden journals become a gardener resource that I can't live without.

My garden journal is also an excellent vehicle by which to keep track of garden ideas on a budget that I have from time to time and when accompanied by simple sketches or pictures, the Hillbilly Gardener has a much higher degree of probability that my garden ideas will be turned into realities rather than just good ideas. This is the day when cameras are in every household in one form or another and digital cameras are now relatively inexpensive and commonplace, which makes for an unparalleled convenience with garden journals. Pictures added to your journal are like adding a supercharger to your gardening efforts. A simple picture can often speak more than a multitude of words.

But, my garden journal is not simply a single collection of notes to use in planning my garden or as as a planting journal. My garden journal is actually two garden journals that I use as a gardener resource and for help planning my garden. The first gardening record, more than simply a planting journal, is a conventional backyard journal of notes that becomes a garden history journal that I use as a gardener resource when planning my garden. The second backyard journal is a pictorial garden history journal of my gardening efforts and garden ideas on a budget. This provides the Hillbilly Gardener a visual gardening record to help me remember how the Hillbilly Gardener got to where I was or want to be.

As stated earlier, the Hillbilly Gardener has always kept some form of notes, but never before have I attempted to put my garden journal together in such a way that others may learn from what I have done. It is the Hillbilly Gardeners hope that you will come back often and watch as we develop this new project further and it is our greater hope that we may be able to present information that you will find useful and helpful as a gardener resource and help planning a garden or garden bed planning in general.

Please note that the garden journals you will find here are not ones that are doctored up for publication. This is actually my garden journal for real and is presented as an example of how to create and keep a garden history journal in specific or a general backyard journal. There are many ways to journal and this is only one example. But, whether you follow this example or not, the bottom line is, if you have gardener soil under your nails, you need to journal in one way or another. You and your gardening efforts will benefit from it.

the "Hillbilly Gardener"

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Created On - 01/01/2010

Last Updated On - 01/09/2011

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