Comments on: The Successful Gardener’s Essential Tool http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2011/04/19/the-successful-gardeners-essential-tool/ Cook Local, Eat Global Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2011/04/19/the-successful-gardeners-essential-tool/#comment-175926 Barbara Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:01:16 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1351#comment-175926 Let me let you in on a secret. My ability to keep up with a garden journal has until this season been sporadic at best. However, with this year’s largest garden plot ever, I decided I HAD to walk the talk and actually keep detailed notes on what is planted when and how each variety does. Otherwise, I am apt to make the same mistakes over and over again in years to come.

If that happened, I fear that the shade of my Grandfather would walk the earth again and haunt me until I became a better gardener. ;-)

That said, I do not keep a journal for my extensive flower gardening. I should, but I don’t.

]]> By: Amy @ As Seen on TV http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2011/04/19/the-successful-gardeners-essential-tool/#comment-175910 Amy @ As Seen on TV Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:08:15 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1351#comment-175910 While journaling probably the best way to approach anything in life as it keeps you on track, I agree with the previous comment that I wouldn’t have the discipline to actually stick the journal but still a great recommendation for those who can to track progress.

]]> By: Adrianne http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2011/04/19/the-successful-gardeners-essential-tool/#comment-175690 Adrianne Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:05:54 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1351#comment-175690 Thanks for the tip. This wasn’t really on my agenda, but it should be! I’m agonizing about where, how, how big, and with what I should start a new garden this year. A journal is probably a good idea, even if it’s very simple.

]]> By: Theresa http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2011/04/19/the-successful-gardeners-essential-tool/#comment-175665 Theresa Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:16:47 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1351#comment-175665 I WISH I could discipline myself to do this. I guess part of me enjoys being the Haphazard Gardener. Things are coming up and I’m thinking “Hello, what’s this? Did I plant that last year?”

]]> By: chicu http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2011/04/19/the-successful-gardeners-essential-tool/#comment-175654 chicu Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:47:22 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1351#comment-175654 I have tomato volunteers, fenugreek, mint, garlic, and some long-bolted rocket. and I HAVE considered keeping a gardening journal ,but am overwhelmed by the amount of recordkeeping i am supposed to do. the work calendar, various project spreadsheets, the housekeeping binder, the ovulation calendar, the secret diary, the happiness journal. aiai.

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