Garden diaries are essential. We need somewhere to keep track of our plants and plans. It is so easy to forget.
This site is my garden diary in a way, as I record most of my activities here, but I also like to keep a physical diary as well so I can make records as I work.
I really like the garden diary below because you can start writing it up at any time of the year and not only can you use it for recording your gardening activities but you can also use it for planning as it has both those sections and more.
For example in my raised bed garden below I not only need to keep track of which seeds were planted in which bed but I also need to keep those notes in order to practice good crop rotation each year.
If you live in Galway, on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way as I do, then keeping a garden diary gives you something to do when it rains – you can use it for planning what to do when the rain stops.
Since it rains such a lot in Galway it made sense for me to turn all that extra diary time into a blog – how’s that for turning lemons into lemonade?
To be honest though I am a writer, and gardening is my hobby not my profession. Writing is such a sedentary occupation and most of it takes place indoors; gardening is the antidote to all that unhealthy sitting and it makes sense for me to combine the two.
Writing about my activities in the garden has made me do a bit more research and studying. For example my interest in growing wild flowers has inspired me to do learn about them as well as growing them.
I hope to add to my skills and I am very interested in permaculture. I have read some books and have completed a workshop but hope to do a longer course soon. It’s on my wish-list for this year so fingers crossed.
Blogging about gardening is also a great way of meeting other gardeners and like-minded people. Gardeners and those who blog about it are usually generous people who love sharing, and lots of you have stopped by the blog and shared your helpful tips with me.
Not only that but many of you have helped me enormously by encouraging me when my wilderness garden overwhelms me which it often does. That for me is the icing on the cake!
Good luck with your gardens.
Grace
P.S. I like the diary above so much that I bought myself one and decided to become an affiliate. All that means is that if you click on the link and buy it I receive a few cents which goes towards the running expenses of this site.
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