The Garden Journal - by Linda Vater (Hardcover)

About the Book

The Garden Journal is a beautiful, heirloom-quality journal where gardeners can record their wishes and wants, daily happenings, and successes and challenges over the course of 5 years.

Book Synopsis

Chronicle life in your garden with this elegant 5-year journal full of tracking tools, planning space, gardening guidance, and inspiration.

Compiled by garden personality Linda Vater, The Garden Journal is an essential record-keeping tool for every gardener, no matter what you grow. From daily happenings and garden successes to plant lists, variety names, and seasonal to-dos, you'll be able to stay organized and keep a carefully curated record of current activities and future tasks. This gorgeous, heirloom-quality journal acts as a logbook and guide through 5 years of your garden's life. Keeping track of success and failures, wishes and wants, has never been more beautiful! The special lay-flat binding allows the book to stay open on a table or potting bench, making it easy to write in without having to hold the pages open.

Sprinkled with season-by-season guidance, inspirational words of wisdom, and growing tips from Linda, this tastefully illustrated journal is bursting with dozens of useful charts and tables to track everything from planting dates to weather events, right along with all of the other pertinent details you need to make the most of your passion for the garden. An interior cover pocket for keeping plant tags or seed packets and a ribbon page marker further serve to help you stay organized and on task.

Included in this indispensable garden planner:

• Inventory charts for plants, seeds, and tools
• Garden planning and design pages with plenty of room for sketching
• A year-at-a-glance calendar for essential notes
• Tracking pages for pest controls, soil test results, and harvest yields
• Places to record planting dates, bloom times, and personal reminders
• Pages for noting garden measurements and dimensions, bulb-planting locations, and other tough-to-remember info
• Budget planning pages to organize garden purchases and expenses
• Daily weather and activity logs for 5 years

The Garden Journal is sure to become a treasured garden companion. With time and curation, it will hold not just precious information, but also personal thoughts and missives about all the pains and pleasures of a life spent in the garden.

About the Author

Linda Vater, author of The Elegant and Edible Garden and The Garden Journal, is a garden designer and stylist who writes and produces garden content for TV, magazines, social media, and her own website. She lived and gardened at her 1935 English Tudor home in Oklahoma City for 30 years, and is now busy creating a new garden at another home in the city. Her gardens have been featured in numerous magazines, including Southern Living, Victoria, Garden Gate, Oklahoma, Mother Earth News, and others. Linda has hosted a weekly gardening segment on Oklahoma's News 4 for 14 years. She also runs her own online television channel, Linda Vater TV, and has partnered with brands such as HGTV, Park Seed, the Home Depot, and the Southern Living Plant Collection.