I will be authoring a monthly organic gardening article for Team Wellness Challenge. We hope you enjoy the articles, and we hope you will share them with your family and friends. Here is the link: http://www.teamwellnesschallenge.com/page_nutrition.html
Keeping a Garden Journal has proved to be rewarding and absolutely worthwhile to remember how your garden performs each year. A journal where you keep track of your successes and failures becomes an indispensable tool full of memories and discoveries!
You can design one of your own or you can go online and download one:
http://www.northerngardening.com/gardenjournal.htm
You can design a row or bed, or an entire garden with this helpful tool:
http://www.gardeners.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Gardeners-Site/default/Page-KitchenGardenDesigner
Another idea is to use a three-ring binder, including pocketed pages for items such as seed packets and photos. The journal usually ends up dirty and sometimes wet, so using a laptop is not recommended.
A few other suggestions for what to keep in your journal: plant information, products and prices, companies you preferred, pressed blooms, dried leaves (some of you may remember the huge green leaves on one of our jalapeno plants this year, I am going to press one big leaf between two sheets of wax paper and put it in my journal because I may not ever see one like that again in my garden), overall observations, yields, seed germination times, and weird weather patterns.
Have fun with your journal and have fun sharing it with each other!
