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Helps For Garden Journals

How to keep a journal, types, and resources for DIY garden journals. Many of those resources are free.

12.01.16 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Scrapbooking Garden Journal

Keeping a Garden Journal

Many gardener’s keep a journal to record seasonal garden information. but have you thought of combining an art journal with the customary jottings about seeds and harvest? Make memories out of yours.

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03.05.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

New Sources For Garden Journals

Keeping a Garden Journal

It is time to create a journal for your garden if you don’t have one already. I came across some sources for you, in case you haven’t found them yet: printable from your own computer. Underwood Gardens PDF Gives combo of information and record-keeping. Example sheet:   Garden Journal Printables Example sheet: A Pretty and…

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10.04.13 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Do You Think Of Your Garden Journal As A Tool?

Keeping a Garden Journal

Dig Into Your Garden Information If someone mentions the basic garden tools that every gardener should have, they tell you about hoes, trowels, shovels, and weeding tools, but how many list a garden journal? It is relegated to garden paraphernalia; peripherals for most gardeners, an after-thought jotted on forgotten notebooks. That is how I thought…

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15.01.12 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

What Are Your Garden Plans For 2012?

Keeping a Garden Journal

I was just wondering. It is January, and until the last week, it was weather to garden in more than weather to plan with, and that was rather strange. We were out digging postholes for the fence to corral the new dog. but now that real January weather has settled in, i.e. freezing temperatures, snow,…

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08.01.11 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

How a Homeowner Can Use a Garden Journal

Keeping a Garden Journal

After reading a review of a gardener’s journal, I came across a description of how one resourceful homeowner had put her garden journal to good use in an innovative way. It could be one way that a seller would gain a bit of advantage in a tough housing market. It is a well known piece of advice…

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01.09.10 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Easy Way to Journal Your Garden

do as I say + Keeping a Garden Journal

© 2010 Ilona’s Garden Journal.All rights reserved. You are going to buy some tulip and daffodil bulbs, soon…. or you find a great new shrub on sale, which you snap up and want to situate in your garden…. now, are you going to remember the names of those plantings five years from now? How about…

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12.05.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

2 New Series

Garden design ideas + Keeping a Garden Journal

Garden Center Scene This year I have visited many of the garden centers, greenhouses and nurseries in my area of Central Ohio. It inspired a decision to do a series of posts to highlight the ones that I like and tell you more about them. That is coming right up, since I have been (after…

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15.12.09 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

A Little Something For You: Garden Journal Template

Keeping a Garden Journal

I came across a resource that may interest some of you. If you would like to start a garden journal, but don’t want to invest mucho dinero, then you may like one of these online garden journal templates. Even if you don’t wish to use the printouts, you might look at the type of info…

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30.11.09 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Busy December

2009 + Keeping a Garden Journal

Every season has its busyness, but holiday preparing and plans always seem to compound it for December. The garden waits quietly for me- I still spend some time on it but it moves far down the task list this month. This season there are different birds in the garden, and it can be fun to…

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26.04.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Easy Botanical Project

Keeping a Garden Journal

This would be fun for kids to make, for cards, or as a base to a collage project. See the original article for the entire “how-to”. clipped from buildmakecraftbake.com How-to: Hammered flower and leaf prints I learned this technique, which makes an image using the natural dyes in plants, from my college roommate Sarah. It’s…

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